“I think that if anyone takes a step back and looks at what’s considered the norm, it’s all jarring. I mean the lack of female characters, the single digit percentage of female directors in this industry. The fact that women get paid less than men, the fact that roles for women in movies for the…
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BEBE REXHA ON PENNING MASSIVE HITS AND HOW TO MAKE IT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
“I can never put my happiness or my health behind fame or money. I don’t want that. It's not worth it to me at all.” -Bebe Rexha Bebe Rexha has been in the music industry long enough to learn that it's not as glamorous as it’s chalked up to be, laughing, “I stayed in my…
SXSW 2015 MUSIC FESTIVAL – TOP 10 ACTS NOT TO BE MISSED
The notorious annual SXSW music festival, which functions as the industry's defacto launch of the summer festival circuit, takes place next week (3/17-3/22) in Austin, Texas, and like every year, has the music scene a buzz with excitement, gossip and anticipation. Last year's festival drew nearly 2400 musical acts - from across 60 countries worldwide…
MUSICIAN MEG MYERS ON WHY YOU HAVE TO BE FEARLESS TO GET WHAT YOU WANT – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
For many kids, the story of Meg Myers is considered a fantasy: dropping out of school to be immersed in a diverse and rich musical career. For the Tennessee-born musician, it was simply called adolescence. “I picked up a guitar and started learning, and have been playing ever since. It became what I wanted to…
THE REBELS – WHAT MAKES A LEGEND LEGENDARY?
The word legend possesses several meanings: a beacon of light, the key to deciphering a map, an individual who achieves astonishing levels of fame in his or her field, and finally, of course, a story. This particular definition brings to mind the tales we have stored in our collective consciousness, and the legends we have…
GLOBAL RHYTHMS – A LOOK AT THE NEW MUSIC SCENE IN EIGHT CITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE
Every major city around the globe has its batch of artists who help to shape, define and continuously transform the dimensions of today’s music scene. These talents are as unique as the cities from which they herald, and their respective creative wells organically reflect something about the very streets they walk. From the West Coast to…
MUSIC IN THE DIGITAL ERA
“It will be only a matter of time—months rather than years—before the music business establishment completely folds. [It will be] no great loss to the world,” said Thom Yorke in 2010, regarding the imminent demise of the music industry. And at that moment, he was indeed displaying a very keen sense of the obvious. Over…
2012 SOUTH-SOUTH AWARDS AT THE WALDORF ASTORIA
South-South News is a media outlet which examines and reports on the policy agendas and best practices of key states from various regions in the Southern Hemisphere. These important countries formed a union in the late 90s aimed at decreasing dependency on foreign development aid, increasing trade, and thereby strengthening economic ties. In 2011 the…