Now’s the ‘Time’ for Mikky Ekko; ‘Never Too Busy’ for Some Kenny Lattimore

| Interviews, Slider
15 May

Rihanna. Blood Diamonds. Ryan Tedder. The list of collaborators Mikky Ekko has worked with is astounding, and I say that in a very pound-my-fist-on-a desk-to-emblazon-the-statement kind of way. We all know about his 2012 orca-whale-hit with Rihanna, which he performed and co-wrote (he was also in that steamy music video with RiRi in a tub […]

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GETTING “VERY CLOSE” TO J-IDRIS ; THE RETURN OF 5 FOR FIGHTING WITH…FIVE FOR FIGHTING

| Interviews
12 Jan

No matter the decade, every girl or boy who had a respective Bat or Bar Mitzvah knows every single line of Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” verbatim. OK, let’s face it everyone does and they have ever since that song came out. Singer/songwriter/producer J-Idris probably knows it most of anyone on the planet. He’s the […]

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RIGHT AT “HOME” WITH THE COLD WAR KIDS

| Interviews
03 Nov

In 1986, Regina released the pop hit “Baby Love,” but while that sound was catchy (so damn catchy), her career quickly went the way of the dodo because she sounded like a carbon copy of Madonna. It happens far too often: a singer sounds so much like another singer that they end up in the […]

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