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Celebrating the life of Whitney Houston with a trip down memory lane, honoring her successes in the film & music industries.

The iconic singer leaves behind a rich legacy.

Aretha Franklin's Arista singles are an essential chapter of post-70s rhythm and blues.

RCA Records has shut down three of its more well-known subsidiary labels, Jive Records, Arista Records, and J Records, as The Hollywood Reporter points out. The news was unveiled in a recent interview between The Holly Reporter and RCA President Tom Corson, who explained that "the path we've taken is to refresh RCA, so we're going to retire those brands. There may be a reason down the line to bring them back, but it's a clean slate here." The artists represented by these three labels will now be under the RCA umbrella. Jive Records, [...]

MUSIC NEWS - Teen sensation Selena Gomez and Mexican singer/songwriter Jenni Rivera are the latest artists added to The 2010 Lilith Tour line-up. And Lilith organizers have revealed details (artists, dates, venues) for six more cities of the Live Nation produced summer festival, including the Sunday, June 27 tour start up at Calgary's McMahon Stadium . Tickets for the newly announced; which also include Edmonton, Vancouver, San Diego, Los Angeles and Denver—go on-sale Saturday, April 3 via LilithFair.com and LiveNation.com . [...]

Via: Wired NEW YORK (Ben Sheffner for Billboard/Reuters) — Almost a decade after the major labels launched their legal assault on Napster, courts are still writing the rules of the road for the music business's digital future. Companies can't set out to build a business based on their users' infringement of copyright, courts had already ruled. But [...]

MP3: Spiritualized - Don't Just Do Something #3 - Spiritualized - Let It Come Down Arista Records 2001 Matt On Let It Come Down: Grandiose opulence is what Jason Pierce aimed for, and such is what he got. On what is his most hopeful album, and most beautiful. The songs within contain so much depth, it takes tens—maybe hundreds—of listens to begin unravelling the web of beauty.

• Spiritualized - Don't Just Do Something

Toronto - Audrye Sessions is a Californian rock quartet consisting of frontman Ryan Karazija, bassist Alicia Marie Campbell, drummer James Leste and guitarist Michael Knox. They've just released their self-titled debum album on the label Black Seal. So what's Black Seal anyway? I've never heard of this label before. It turns out that it's a unit of Sony BMG. While I will admit that you can find this information on the cd case, in teeny weeny print, they certainly don't make it very clear. After doing a little digging, I've found out that Sony owns a bunch [...]

The godfather of Atlanta's urban music scene discusses everything from his early days with Babyface to his regrets over his move to Arista Records several years ago.