After a 15-year break from recording together, can A Tribe Called Quest kick it again? Fresh from playing a gig with Prince at SXSW in Austin, Tx., the group’s members may be crossing paths in the studio. Q-Tip tells Rolling Stone he expects to sprinkle his first album in five years with individual cameos from [...]
Prince Closes SXSW With Big Band Ode to the ’80s
March 17, 2013 | Posted by
Prince, backed by a 21-piece band, closed SXSW Saturday night in Austin with a bang, rolling through a series of songs that took the audience back to the 1980s, when he was at the top of his game. He blazed songs like “1999,” which came out in 1982 and “Purple Rain” from the 1984 album [...]
Prince Performance Confirmed For SXSW
March 13, 2013 | Posted by
Prince has been confirmed to make his first appearance at SXSW in Austin, Texas, this weekend. Rumours that the pop legend, who has released two new songs already in 2013, will perform at the bash first surfaced earlier this week and have now been confirmed by Samsung, who said Prince will play an event for [...]
Prince Given Carnegie Hall All-Star Tribute
March 8, 2013 | Posted by
If Thursday night’s all-star tribute to Prince – including appearances by D’Angelo, Elvis Costello, the Blind Boys of Alabama and ex-Saturday Night Live star Maya Rudolph – had a theme, it was that the Minneapolis pop genius’ best work could withstand just about any kind of treatment and stand tall. The latest of Carnegie Hall’s [...]
Prince Rocks on Fallon with New Song, ‘Screwdriver’
March 3, 2013 | Posted by
Prince ruled “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on Friday with a performance of new song, “Screwdriver,” a literally smashing version of his 1979 tune “Bambi,” and news of a West Coast tour mentioned by Fallon. After introducing him as “one of the most legendary and influential musicians of all time,” Jimmy Fallon said Prince will [...]
Prince: Madonna Hogged Label Attention While He Was at Warner Bros.
January 25, 2013 | Posted by
Prince is speaking out about his new music, blasting Madonna and his former record label in the process. Prince slams Madonna for taking all of the attention from their former record label, Warner Bros. Records. “It was always about Madonna,” he said to Billboard, explaining why he left Warner Bros. in 1999. “She was getting [...]
Details of Prince Secret, Surprise Show in L.A.
October 27, 2012 | Posted by
Prince played a surprise show in Los Angeles on Thursday night — and Billboard correspondent DJ Skee was there. Below, his inside look at an intimate night with the Purple one. It all started when someone whispered to me, asking if I wanted to check out Prince’s secret show. Despite my typical allergy towards Hollywood [...]
Prince Shows Up on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart for 1st Time Since 1994 -Video
September 25, 2012 | Posted by
The Purple One graces Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart for the first time since “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” reached No. 25 in 1994, as “RNR Affair” bows at No. 24. Aided by top-of-the-hour promotional airplay on participating Clear Channel and Media Entertainment-owned stations (Sept. 17), the song previews Prince’s three-night residency at Chicago’s [...]
Prince Joins Mary J. Blige for Surprise Two-Song Medley at iHeart Music Festival – Video
September 24, 2012 | Posted by
The iHeart Radio Music Festival offered plenty of surprises, but nothing compared to the surprise audiences received on Saturday night (Sept. 22). Midway through Mary J. Blige‘s set, Prince was brought out onstage for a two-song medley. The 12,000 concertgoers at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand went ballistic as the Purple One graced the stage with [...]
Prince Sports an Afro on ‘The View’, Introduces New Single ‘RNR Affair’
September 19, 2012 | Posted by
The last time Prince dropped in on The View, the screaming fans shorted out the audio and co-host Sherri Shepherd confessed that she’d wanted to make love to him her entire life, at which point the Purple One nearly jumped out of his seat and made for the nearest exit. Things were a bit more [...]
