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Nicki Minaj to Preview New Song at Grammys, Perform at NBA All-Star Game
With her second studio album set for this April, hip-hop diva Nicki Minaj has announced a wave of news, including her next single, Grammy plans, and a performance at the 2012 NBA All-Star Game.
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Metallica Announce (Surprisingly Indie-Centric) Orion Fest With Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Gary Clark Jr.
Orion Music + More will take place June 23-24, with a diverse lineup that includes Arctic Monkeys, Gary Clark, Jr., Roky Erickson, Modest Mouse and more, including band member-specific "lifestyle elements."
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Foo Fighters, Lil Wayne, David Guetta, Deadmau5 & Chris Brown to Lead Dance Music Tribute at Grammys
The Foo Fighters will participate in a "special performance highlighting dance/electronica music" at Sunday's Grammys, according to an official Grammys press release issued this afternoon (Feb. 7). The rockers' collaborators include Lil Wayne, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Chris Brown.
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Backbeat: Beyonce Steps Out, Nas Has Wings at Jay-Z's Carnegie Hall After Party @ 40/40
Last night, after the first of two charity concerts at Carnegie Hall, Jay-Z celebrated at his NYC nightclub, The 40/40 club, with wife and new mom Beyoncé, who made her first public appearance since giving birth, as well as rapper Nas, BET's Stephen Hill, Roc Nation's Rich Kleiman, Def Jam's Shawn "Pecas" Costner of Def Jam and many more.
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Madonna Announces 2012 World Tour Dates -- Her Biggest Tour Yet
Fresh of her halftime performance at Super Bowl XLVI comes details of the Madonna 2012 World Tour. The trek will begin May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and will be her most extensive tour ever in terms of number of dates, according to Arthur Fogel, CEO of Live Nation Global Touring, worldwide producers of the tour. The tour will take Madonna to Australia for the first time in 20 years, as well as many markets she has never played before.
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Backbeat: Vince Gill, Steve Winwood, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean at Artist Growth Launch Party
The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville played host to the launch of Artist Growth, a suite of cloud-based artist management tools for web and mobile. The launch brought out stars from Vince Gill and Steve Winwood to Artist Growth CEO Matt Urmy and Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.
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Super Bowl Spurs Sales for Madonna's New (and Old) Material
After only three days in release, "Luvin'" has sold over 100,000 downloads in the U.S., while her "Celebration" greatest hits album sold between 13,000-14,000 download copies (up from a couple hundred units the week previous).
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Music For Champions Benefit Concert to Feature Rascal Flatts
The first-ever benefit concert will raise money for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research to help fight the battle against cancer.
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Backbeat: Windish Agency, Ticketfly Throw L.A. Taco Party For Touring Execs @ New Echo Park Digs
The Windish Agency, in partnership with Ticketfly, hosted a party for music execs to celebrate the company new office in Echo Park, Angeles, with Windish prez Tom Windish, Goldenvoice VP Elliot Lefko, Live Nation's Shane Shuhart and more. in addition to its new L.A. digs, the firmhad 17 new hires over the past 12 months and expanded it event production and sponsorship initiatives for its roster of more than 550 acts.
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Music Apps To Look Forward To @ SXSW Accelerator
With MIDEM out of the way, it's time to look forward to the next big conference on the docket: SXSW. Here's a look at some of the music and technology apps that will come up at SXSW's Accelerator program.
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Backbeat: ASAP Rocky Hits Irving Plaza Like a Fist, Leaves Crowd Buzzing
ASAP Rocky took the Irving Plaza stage with new track "Pretty Flacko" and brought out special guests Wacka Flocka Flame and Bun B to entertain a crowd that included Warner Bros. A&R Dante Ross, RCA VP of A&R Mr. Morgan, and a whole host of magazine editors and radio execs.
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How Eric Church Battled Scalpers Head-On
Eric Church has a song called “Springsteen” on his current album “Chief,” but the country rocker has discovered he has something else in common with the Boss since he moved up to the arena level: ticket resellers who are all over his tickets, going as far as joining his fan club to game a system he and his team set up to provide value for fans.
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Super Bowl Goes Organic Thanks To Farm Aid
Concessions at the 2012 Super Bowl, for the first time, will serve organic food, sourced through Farm Aid, the music-industry-backed group supporting American farmers. Co-founded in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp, with Dave Matthew later joining its board, Farm Aid has raised more than $39 million for U.S. farmers
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Backbeat: Skrillex's Secret 'Blindfolded' Show, Where Even Lyor Cohen Got Skrillified
An invitation for an "Exclusive Private Event" to see the Grammy-nominated DJ sensation Skrillex instructed invitees to meet at NYC's WeSC Concept Store and prepare to be "Blindfolded and Driven to A Secret Location." The murky details didn't prevent droves of model-types, mussy-haired indie boys, candy ravers and music bizers like WMG Chairman of Recorded Music Lyor Cohen from checking out Skrillex's highly-danceable set of bombastic beats.
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Business Matters: Is Madonna Behind Live Nation's Stock Surge?
Live Nation's stock jumped 3.4% Friday following reports that tickets for Madonna's 2012 tour would go on sale after Sunday's Super Bowl, where the singer is performing at the halftime show. Elsewhere, Amazon's Kindle Fire is helping get music to Android users but is still far behind the iPad, and Kickstarter's platform just keeps growing.
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