B13 Peer Review

On Wednesday, Jay and Tidal executive Vania Schlogel met with students at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music to talk about the newly launched music streaming service Tidal.  The brand is being billed as an artist owned high-fidelity music platform which provides lossless audio quality. NYU professor Errol Kolosine moderated the discussion. On whether Tidal was a direct response to criticism artists receive small portions of profits from streaming on Spotify: Jay Z: Not a direct response. You don’t want to single anyone out, per se — but currently we pay the highest royalty percentage. And there is no free tier service. If you have five people paying for music, and ten people consuming it, then the artist starts at -5. We start at 1. There is no free tier and we’ll pay the highest royalty percentage. That’s how we’ll change the industry. On the difference between Tidal’s payout structure and its competitors: Schlogel: The royalty rates will be...

  Up and Coming April 3, 2015 rahtheman          Leon Bridges is soul music at its core.  Dare I say the new Sam Cooke of this era.  He has the voice, swagger, and talent of a modern day Sam Cooke. Not to get it twisted Leon is his own man but his brings back the golden era of soul music in the early 60s’.  His connects to your soul, so you can relate to the lyrics. This Forth Worth, TX product is due to debut his full-length album,  Coming Home , due out June 23rd via Columbia Records.  He has already release three singles “Better Man”, “Lisa Sawyer”.  The just release track “Coming Home” is timeless.  Check out the video below:

Puff will be behind-the-scenes of a cartoon called  Brightmoor , the project  describes as “ South Park  set in inner-city Detroit” that chronicles the students of a school called Brightmoor Elementary. The animated show is still in the beginning stages of development, and  the show was created and written by Detroit comedian Chris Powell, commonly known as Comedian CP, and former  King Of The Hill  producer and writer Chip Hall. The Bad Boy Records  founder will produce the show via his own Revolt Films production company .