Day: March 30, 2009

UK UNSIGNED HYPE – AKS, DEBORAH JORDAN AND RASIYAH

Check out the latest installment of UK unsigned hype. This week’s artists featured are rapper AKS, singers Deborah Jordan and Rasiyah. Click here to listen to a selection of AKS’ tracks.  Click here  to listen to a selection of Deborah’s tracks. Click here to listen to a selection of Rasiyah’ s tracks. Your thoughts please…..

UK NEWS: STATUE OF JADE GOODY TO BE ERECTED IN HER HOME TOWN OF BERMONDSEY?

Via Digital Spy Jade Goody could be immortalised by a statue in Bermondsey, it has emerged. A number of fans have written to council heads and urged them to commemorate the reality TV star, who  last week, The Mirror reports. Community council chair Bob Skelly said: “The council has plans for the Dickens Estate area where Jade grew up, and I’m sure we could do something.” Publicist Max Clifford said: “It’s wonderful news.” It is thought that a statue or blue plaque []

KELLY ROWLAND DROPPED BY HER RECORD LABEL?

I know her last album struggled to do as well as she hoped, but I never actually saw this coming…. Former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland has reportedly been dropped by her record label, just months after firing her manager, father of her former bandmate, Beyonce Knowles. Though her first two solo albums sold more than four million copies, bosses at Columbia records dumped the singer because she was “no longer commercially viable”, British tabloid News of The World reported.  Continue Reading…. “No longer commercially []