Top Artists

Earth, Wind & Fire

Artist, Contributor

This dynamic, spiritually focused Funk/Soul outfit authored slick harmonies, phenomenal horn parts, and resonant hit songs.

Tiësto

Artist, Contributor

Dutch artist Tiësto used trance music as a springboard to become one of the most popular DJs in the world.

Hans Zimmer

Artist, Contributor

Zimmer is a composer who went from collaborating with the Buggles to scoring successful Hollywood blockbuster soundtracks.

Paulina Rubio

Artist, Contributor

Mexican pop star Paulina Rubio is one of the Latin world’s most successful artists, with nine albums to her credit.

Glee Cast

Artist, Contributor

Glee is a musical-dramedy television show about a misfit high school glee club and their earnest Spanish teacher director.

Ne-yo

Artist, Contributor

Ne-Yo got his name from a friend/producer who told him he could “see” music like Neo sees “The Matrix.”

Top Works

good to know

Jojo

JoJo’s fourth full-length album, and first on her own Clover Music imprint with Warner Records, 2020’s Good to Know, finds the singer digging into a sensual R&B sound that’s marked by a hard-won maturity and creative freedom. The album arrives four years after Mad Love, during which time JoJo parted ways with Atlantic Records and worked to take control of her career, launching Clover Music and releasing re-recorded versions of her first two albums. Here, working with producers Doc McKinney, Dylan Wiggins, Lido, and others, JoJo frames her warm vocals in hypnotic downtempo …

BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US

Jessie Reyez

Anyone familiar with the range Jessie Reyez has shown since 2016 was not taken aback by news that the artist fought the pressure to make her first album a cohesive one. The uncommonly versatile singer and songwriter went multi-platinum in her native Canada with a sparse heartbreak ballad, “Figures.” Its parent release, the Kiddo EP, also featured the glass-rattling “Gatekeeper” — an alarming account of her experience with a sexual predator — in which she sang from her perspective, and rapped and sang from that of the offender. She has co-written simple love songs like “One Kiss,” a U….

The Infamous

Mobb Deep

One of the cornerstones of the New York hardcore movement, The Infamous is Mobb Deep’s masterpiece, a relentlessly bleak song cycle that’s been hailed by hardcore rap fans as one of the most realistic gangsta albums ever recorded. Given Mobb Deep’s youthful age and art-school background, it’s highly unlikely that The Infamous is drawn strictly from real-life experience, yet it’s utterly convincing, because it has all the foreboding atmosphere and thematic sweep of an epic crime drama. That’s partly because of the cinematic vision behind the duo’s detailed narratives, but it’…

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