Subject: Akon

• Today In Music News: Metallica goes digital, NIN announces (last?) tour, Suge Knight gets a beatdown and Madonna gets sold.

  Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, February 17, 2009... Metallica is now embracing digital music... as long as "digital music" doesn't mean "illegal downloads". The band is releasing its entire music catalogue digitally via iTunes on March 31 and then everywhere else on April 28.  Trent Reznor may be pulling the plug on Nine Inch Nails' future touring. He posted a note on the NIN website stating that his band will tour with Jane's Addiction th

  February 17, 2009

• How R&B has descended into Rap and Bullshit

  January 22, 2009

• Akon

  Freedom (Universal)

  January 8, 2009

• Lil Wil and Play (of Play-N-Skillz) Share Their Favorites of 2008

  January 1, 2009

• Singles Going Steady

  More ways to waste 99 cents

  March 8, 2007

• 50 Cent

  Curtis (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)

  September 20, 2007

• Daddy Yankee

  Sunday, September 2, at Nokia Theatre

  August 30, 2007

• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

  Strength & Loyalty (Full Surface/Interscope)

  June 7, 2007

• Gwen Stefani

  The Great Escape (Interscope)

  December 21, 2006

• Gold Needles in the Pop-Rock Haystack

  The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

  December 28, 2006

• Whitney Houston

  September 3, 2009

• Play-N-Skillz Launch Label, Sign Local Artist

  The proud owners of a new major label imprint.​ Yesterday, two-time Grammy-winning Dallas hip-hop production duo Play-N-Skillz announced a deal it has signed with Universal Music Group urban imprint SRC/Universal to launch its own imprint, which will be called G4 Muzik. After the jump, the full press release announcing the deal. But, in short, it's a pretty sweet one for the Brothers Salinas, as they'll have complete control over the production, promotion and marketing of their own clients--wh

  September 10, 2009