Blog: CMONGOOD

ASCAP kicks off its 3rd annual ASCAP Presents… Women Behind the Music Series November 9th in New York City with Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Monica, music industry executive Phillana Williams and music industry powerbroker, manager and executive, Mona Scott-Young. "After two successful years with phenomenal feedback, we are proud to host the 3rd Annual ASCAP Women Behind the Music Series to recognize the immense contributions that women make across all areas of the music business," said Nicole George, ASCAP Vice President of Membership-Rhythm & Soul. "We want to continue to celebrate the achievements of impressive [...]

It's the Singles Club freaks! The Paramore Single's Club Collection that is. "This club is our way of getting these songs directly to the Paramore family. Think of these songs as our little secret to you." No secrets are allowed on the internet, just ask Drake. The 2nd of 3 offerings from Paramore is a fun, pop, punk-rock track "Hello Cold World" . It follows last month's release of 'Renegade'. The final track, 'In The Mourning' , will be released on December 5.

Check out this video of Frank Ocean performing "Thinking Of You" at his very first show sans Odd Future in his hometown of New Orleans. Unfortunately, right after that he ended up postponing his Sunday night NY show. I hope his throat gets better and doesn't continue to affect future shows. I am really looking forward to his career rising and it won't do so unless he tours independent of Odd Future . New York is cancelled… or should i say postponed. i played last night in new orleans, [...]

Do you have $460,000? Good you can buy Lady GaGa's urinal. Don't worry! She didn't actually use it (we hope) it's a prop from the set of her Vogue Hommes Photoshoot where she posed as her male character Joe Calderone and is now considered art for sale. GaGa donated the urinal back in July to SHOWStudio.com. It's signed: "I'm not a f-- Duchamp but I love pissing with you."

First video for The Roots debut single "Make My" from their 13th LP (damn), and first ever concept album 'undun' . 3 more videos from the album will be released every Tuesday at 12:06 p.m. leading up to the album's release in December. Rising southern superstar Big K.R.I.T . is noticeably absent from the video (is that you in that hoodie K.R.I.T.?) and though the video is short it introduces viewers to ' undun's' story. For those of you wondering what exactly is the concept behind [...]

Damn. The last thing anyone should do is assume to know the whole story of what someone is going through. Sheneka Adams is doing an amazing job building her brand and she is on this month's cover of Rhymes and Dimes. In this video from the magazines interview, she discusses her suicide attempt and stay in a mental hospital. "I did have to go to a mental hospital for 3 days because I tried to kill myself and nobody knows that. All these people heckled me instead of them listening to what [...]

I like Trina I do, it's just that since her first album 'Da Baddest Bitch' most of her music has been...eh. So for me to actually like something again is an extremely welcome surprise. This is hot vid for a nice dance track off her mixtape 'Diamonds Are Forever' . I can definitely see myself doing the booty pop in my car to this. Do you like it?

Last night in London Kelly Rowland was honored at Cosmopolitan Magazine's Ultimate Woman Awards. Kelly won the Ultimate TV Personality prize for her duties as host of X-Factor. She also was questioned about Beyonce's pregnancy and Kelly told BANG Showbiz: "I'm so happy for my sister and her husband. They're so happy in this moment right now, as they should be. They've made a little bundle of love, I'm so excited for them. "I have no idea what I'm going to buy Beyonce at the baby shower because Jay is going to buy [...]

The Kang's home! Yelawolf enlists Tip and his fellow Shady labelmates Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden and Royce Da 5'9 for the remix of club banger "Hard White". The Alabama native's debut LP 'Radioactive' drops November 21.

Foster The People , the breakout band who's been around for ages but recently received acclaim for their bullying song "Pumped Up Kicks" has just released a video for their 2nd single. "Call It What You Want" is off their recently released debut album ' Torches' . Its weird, spooky and should have been released before Halloween but thats actually what I like about it.

In an exclusive interview with V103 Atlanta DJ Greg Street, Lola Monroe revealed that she is now signed to Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang imprint. "We got it in with Taylor Gang. We Taylored now," the 25-year-old former model told DJGreg Street of Atlanta radio station V-103. "Wiz is like a positive free individual that's about his business and that matches everything I've created on my side. When he reached out, he was like, 'I feel as though our movements represent the same thing, so I want you to rep Taylor Gang.' And I agreed, [...]

I was discussing with my home girls recently how it seems we are growing up at a much slower pace than our parents did. By the time my mom was my age she was married with three kids and a house. I have a cat, a dog, a car note and a relationship that I don't even want to ruin with titles. Produced by Chuck Harmony and co-written by Evan "Kidd" Bogar , in "Children" V V, asks us all to wake up and look at ourselves and the world around us. [...]

I'm told from a pretty reliable source that Keri Hilson's raunchiness on stage and in videos could not save that ass from being dropped from Interscope recently. I'm definitely a Keri Hilson fan, she comes off as a sweet person and has a promising career. However, suddenly acting vulgar after coming out as the high school basketball player, hates wearing heels, girl next door type just seemed so desperate...and contrived. "You're either folk or soul, or else you're R&B or pop – and then it's almost like the sex has to be a part of [...]

The popular California duo J*DaVeY just released this double feature for their virst official visual off of 'New Designer Drug' . "Whatchalookin@ | Kill 4 Fun" is produced & directed by The Ports . Congrats to frontwoman Jack Davey on her impending bundle!

JoJo really is beginning to remind me of Lisa Stanfield, the R&B vocal powerhouse of the 802s. It seems that she has been around the world and back, that's how long it's taken her to bring us a new album. "Disaster" is about a relationship that kind of takes a turn for the worst. But it's not the end of the world when the relationship is over. There's a whole bunch of fish to go fishing for." This is off of her third studio album ' Jumping [...]

LaRon has been working with Mr. Multi-talented producer Dallas Austin for some time now and he just released this video for "Under The Mess". The track was written and produced by Dallas Austin and the video was also directed by Dallas Austin. This is not from his last LP 'Like A Rose' so I can only hope this means he will be releasing more music soon.

Drake covers this month's issue of Source magazine and takes a BB gun size shot at the throne: "When I was a kid trying to figure out what I liked, it was Kanye who I related to the most. He was an artist, in every sense, from his cover art to his music. Now, I would say he was a really great competitor…." In the meantime, his ex Cat who is mentioned in the above lyric from "Good Girls Gone Bad" says she was dumped by Drake for wanting to [...]

There's always some reason why an artist hasn't released music in awhile. Might be a good reason might be complete bull. In JoJo's case we know it's not because she can't sing because she just took Rihanna's version of "What's My Name" completely out of my mind. Thoughts on this acoustic version?

The Motion Family directed Dream's Terius Nash's latest video for "Ghetto", one of my favorite's from 1977 . The video is filmed in the ghetto(of course) in Bankhead and Jesus chain wearing Big Sean 's delivery of 16 bars added just the right amount of bounce to keep the track jammin. It's not too emo or boastly as most of the mixtape is, but I guess I just have soft spot for hood tracks.

Toronto has really set the bar high for entertainer's this past few years and Rochelle Jordan is no exception. If you recall I posted about her during my freelance stint at the wonderful and rare soul site Soulbounce . This one is post her much hyped LP, 'R O J O' , and pre her highly anticipated sophomore album. I don't believe for a moment that's it's not a response to Drake's "Club Paradise" line. She's singing the track from the perspective of a stripper taking shots to forget about her bad choices. Aaaaand..... [...]