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extended player hater

Are EPs Extending The Buzz Of New Artists, Or Giving Them The Short End Of The Stick?


In the high-risk, low-reward business of trying to introduce new artists into a slumping marketplace, hip hop labels have a lot of coping mechanisms at their disposal. The most common approach, of releasing single after single until one does well enough to assure decent first-week album sales, is still as popular as ever—as is the method of simply dumping the album in stores with a nonexistent promotional budget and then blaming its failure on the artist. But more and more over the past couple years, a third way to screw both the artist and the consumer has emerged as an alternative: EPs. More »

5:10 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Al Shipley
697 views, 7 comments

Latest by Captain Wrong: Seriously. Most hip hop albums would make much better EPs. However, I'm sure the majors are going to keep using them as dumping grounds for remixes and crap and charge as much as possible. 5 (quality) songs for 5 bucks more »

web 2.no

Mike Jones Travels The World From The Comfort Of His Own Couch

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who?

Mike Jones Would Like To Have A Word With You



Houston rapper Mike Jones, who encouraged stalkers/lodged his name in America's brains by shouting out his cell phone number everywhere he could, is once again telling fans to get on the horn if they feel like shooting the shit. If you don't believe he'll actually pick up, you can send him your phone number in a MySpace message and he'll get back to you in the order your number was recieved. But Mike, everyone switched to Facebook a long time ago, man. More »

3:20 PM on Tue Nov 27 2007
By jharv
278 views, 5 comments

Latest by lastclearchance: @therichgirlsareweeping: You mean "those among the collegiate and post-collegiate who choose to define themselves in opposition to those on myspace and/or its aol hometown design aesthetic" ...oh wait, same thing. more »

videodrone

Mike Jones' Grill Was Down, Not Out


The video for Mike Jones' "Turnin' Headz," from his long-delayed album The American Dream, seeks to explain Mike's complicated relationship with his grill. In the opening sequence Mike learns just how much his grill means to the children of the world, and, in the interest of turning heads, he decides to bring it back after a brief hiatus. The video—a yellow-tinted celebration of Cadillac-centric street life—earns my sentimental favor because it was shot in my hometown of Houston and features many of its beautiful freeway underpasses. And the song is not half bad, either. How can you resist lyrics like "They used to laugh at my belly / now they wanna rub / on my belly every Sunday to get in my club?"

Mike Jones - Turnin' Headz [YouTube]

5:25 PM on Fri Oct 26 2007
By Kate Richardson
121 views, 4 comments

Latest by herzoggity: whatevs. all the shit goes down at the kirby taco c. across form where that jamaican club used to be. site of all my hpd. encounters to date. more »

Mike Jones' long-delayed The American Dream, the travails of which have been covered extensively in this space, is really for sure pinky-swear promise coming out on Nov. 20, according to Swishahouse/Asylum/Warner Bros. [Billboard]

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would 'the goalkeeper' make a good rap name? probably not

Who? Mike JonesPelé

Even after his own label gave him the runaround, Major League Soccer has given Mike Jones a home as part of an initiative where an MLS teams pick their most favoritest band or musician, then that musician writes songs with the team in mind. Are people watching televised, major league futbol yet in this country? (Aside from U.S. Weekly-style Beckham-watch.) I thought it was a ratings brick, despite the fact that millions of young people play it every day. That might explain why MLB gets Scott Stapp (horrible musical tumor, but a known quantity) and the NBA and NFL could probably snag any rapper it wanted. Meanwhile, MLS gets OK Go.

Adidas and MLS Make Music Online [Adweek]

10:00 AM on Thu Aug 16 2007
By jharv
345 views, 2 comments

Latest by PeterBjorn&Yawn: I know that its your job as internet bridge trolls to be snarky and knee-jerk... but Bad Brains, the Rapture, Polyphonic Spree, and RJD2 are on there as well. Bad Brains! more »

delays

These Days, You May Be Dreaming If You Think Your Album Will Come Out On Time

Yesterday's Houston Chronicle had a piece on delayed hip-hop albums; among the albums profiled is UGK's UGK (Underground Kingz), which after having its release date held up for a year is reportedly going to debut at No. 1 next week. (Who knew that waiting for the bottom to fall out of the CD market would pay off so handsomely?) Also mentioned in the piece is Mike Jones, whose album The American Dream was unceremoniously pushed back to October after vanishing from Atlantic's schedule last month: More »

12:58 PM on Thu Aug 9 2007
By mjohnston
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an american dream, delayed

Where Is Mike Jones?


Who? Mike Jones, the man whose phone will never stop ringing, is surprisingly elusive on the alleged release date of his new album, The American Dream. Already pushed back once (it was originally supposed to come out in May), Dream is either unavailable or shipping in 4-6 weeks on Amazon, depending on which listing you look at. At his official site—at which Jones pops up as you drag your cursor across the menu to inform you that "You're goin' down!"—the line is that Dream is "coming soon," but there aren't any upcoming tour dates or events listed. Furthermore, for a city that takes such pride in its rappers, Houston is surprisingly mum today, with no events listed in honor of Jones or Dream. Perhaps he's taking a subtler approach to self-promotion—or maybe he just needs to fire his marketing team.

Mike Jones [Official site]

12:58 PM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By Kate Richardson
557 views, 5 comments

Latest by PengIn: @DanGibson: I would submit that "Who? Mike Jones!" is the thinking man's "What? Okaaaaay!" I mean that in a positive way, more »

on the shelf

Tomorrow's New Releases Revealed Today

Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator's weekly look at albums that are hitting store shelves on Tuesday. The big release this week for the bloggers is Volta, the new album from musical omnivore Bjork; after the jump, we look at that album, as well as new releases from Mike Jones, The View, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and the Mary Timony Band. More »

5:51 PM on Mon May 7 2007
By mjohnston
910 views, Comment

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Leak Of The Day, Part Two: Mike Jones Grabs The Joystick

The second track from Mike Jones' The American Dream, which comes out April 3, is "Like What I Got," and it's got Jones' trademark reminders of his name and a backing track that sounds like it was inspired by the Houstonian's 8-bit namesake. More »

12:19 PM on Mon Mar 5 2007
By mjohnston
790 views, 1 comment