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BOOK REVIEW: “Purple Rain: Music On Film”

April 27, 2012
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BOOK REVIEW: “Purple Rain: Music On Film”

Credit: Limelight Editions/Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group Purple Rain: Music On Film now available in the Moniqueblog Amazon Store! Synopsis (Limelight Editons/Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group): In the summer of 1984, a small, low-budget film came out of nowhere and unexpectedly debuted at the number one slot at the box office, unseating reigning...

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MUSIC REVIEW: “Black Ladder”

April 23, 2012
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MUSIC REVIEW: “Black Ladder”

You guys remember the band Black Ladder, right? I had them–”them” being Ray Cardenas (drums), Clarence Riley IV (bass) and Shane Lamb (keyboards) on my site for a couple of live chats a while ago, and now their first cd, the self-titled Black Ladder, is now available for musical consumption. Lamb, who is also...

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Tell Anoop Desai to come to your city during his upcoming tour!

April 19, 2012
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Tell Anoop Desai to come to your city during his upcoming tour!

Credit: Anoopdesai.com Anoop Desai is beginning his tour and he wants you, his fans, to tell him where to go. Here’s what he had to say: “I am putting together my new tour and need you to let me know what cities to hit by commenting below the promotional tour video! Share this new video...

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Notable Links: One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi, a brave teen changes his mother’s mind about homosexuality, Mary J. Blige’s Burger King fiasco, Red Nation TV and “Aoki”

April 7, 2012
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Notable Links: One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi, a brave teen changes his mother’s mind about homosexuality, Mary J. Blige’s Burger King fiasco, Red Nation TV and “Aoki”

Still of Richard Aoki from Aoki Another week brings more Notable Links! Let’s see what we’ve got this week: One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi: In a perverse way, the crime of Trayvon Martin’s death has brought to light a lot of crimes that have gone unsolved, one of which being the death of Shaima...

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Sahara Davenport Hits the Billboard chart with “Go Off”

March 30, 2012
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Sahara Davenport Hits the Billboard chart with “Go Off”

Screencap from the Go Off! music video If your a fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race (I’m a big fan), you probably know Sahara Davenport. The popular Drag Race alum has now hit the Billboard chart with her new single, “Go Off!” Here’s the official video: Want to learn more about the single? Here’s the official...

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Anoop Desai’s “OoWee” available for download on Playsongster!

March 14, 2012
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Anoop Desai’s “OoWee” available for download on Playsongster!

Credit: Anoopdesai.com Earlier, I wrote about Anoop Desai’s performance at SXSW, and now, his latest single, “OoWee,” is available for download! Here’s the official rundown: Today marks the debut of “OoWee” on Facebook’s first and only interactive music collaboration game Songster! Head over to Playsongster.com to hear the exciting new sound of “OoWee”, remix...

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Anoop Desai to perform at SXSW!

March 11, 2012
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Anoop Desai to perform at SXSW!

Credit: Anoopdesai.com Guess what? Friend to the site Anoop Desai is going to be performing at South By Southwest! WHOO! Here’s the official rundown from Anoop: As my core supporters you are very important to me and I wanted to make this special announcement to you first! To kick things off, I’m going to release the...

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“American Idol” introduces some new R&B up-and-comers

March 8, 2012
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“American Idol” introduces some new R&B up-and-comers

(L-R) Jessica Sanchez and Heejun Han Last night was a good night on American Idol. Granted, there might have been some other good nights, but Wednesday was the first day I started re-watching this season. What a good day to start watching it again! I actually didn’t expect “Stevie Wonder/Whitney Houston” night to give...

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Anoop Desai!

February 14, 2012
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Anoop Desai!

Credit: Anoopdesai.com As Anoop Desai says in his special Valentine’s Day video below, I don’t have any valentine. I don’t particularly care, since I still have a literal pound of candy, but if you’re alone and you’re glad the day’s almost over, then perhaps you might want to pretend Desai is your valentine. Just...

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Whitney Houston dead at 48

February 11, 2012
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Whitney Houston dead at 48

Whitney Houston performing on Good Morning America, Central Park, New York City, on September 1, 2009. Credit: asterix611 (Flickr Creative Commons) I rarely talk about death on this site. But, like I did with Don Cornelius, I have to address the death of Whitney Houston.  First of all, it’s a shock. Second of all, it’s really saddening,...

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Have a chance to win tickets to the Grammys by watching the Grammy Nominee Takeover featuring Kanye West

February 1, 2012
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Have a chance to win tickets to the Grammys by watching the Grammy Nominee Takeover featuring Kanye West

Credit: FuseTV (click picture to go to insider.Fuse.tv. We’re at the home stretch FuseTV’s Grammy Nominee Takeover contest, in which you can win two tickets to the Grammys. If you missed the  first two posts, here are the official rules: The countdown to the Grammys has begun, and Fuse wants to send 1 lucky...

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Watch the Grammy Nominee Takeover featuring Eminem, enter to win Grammy tickets!

January 25, 2012
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Watch the Grammy Nominee Takeover featuring Eminem, enter to win Grammy tickets!

Credit: Fuse TV You might remember my post on the Grammys contest being sponsored by Fuse TV. If you happened to miss it, here’s the rundown on the contest: The countdown to the Grammys has begun, and Fuse wants to send 1 lucky winner and a friend to the 2012 Grammy Awards in Los...

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