Incognito signs with Dome Records for latest release

 

One of my favourite all time acts Incognito left their London based Talkin' Loud Records a few years back for another. Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maurnick and company has inked a deal with Dome Records to have their latest set 'Who needs love' drop in the UK.

The new album, which is the first since the group's leaving of Talkin' Loud is scheduled to drop on March 17th and features a new crop of female vocalists in Kelli Sae, Joy Rose and Joy Malcolm. All 13 tracks on the album were written or co-written by Maunick, one of which "Blue (I'm Still With You)" is with former Style Councel frontman Paul Weller who contributes guitar and keyboards on the track and also on the now available Japanese release, there is a bonus live version of the classic Average Whilte Band's hit Pickin' up the pieces.

The band has recently returned from a four week long tour in Japan to play a six night engagement at London's Jazz Café from April 20 to 25. Tickets are available from the Café box office. Additional dates around the UK are expected to be announced soon.

Source: soul24-7.com

  

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The Isley Bro dishes out a 'Body Kiss' come March 18th

The lengivity of The Isley Brothers is amazing. The original band started out in the early 50s and are still going strong some 5 decades later (not a lot of groups can wear that crown). Nowadays the group features Ronald Isley . . . a.k.a. Mr. Biggs (an identity he created for an R. Kelly Video), will release their next album, Body Kiss on May 13th. The album is the follow-up to the group's guest-filled 2001 release, Eternal, which found the legendary soul ensemble celebrating its fortieth anniversary by working with the likes of Kelly, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Jill Scott. The new album's first single is "What Would You Do," which has already hit radio. The group will head to Chicago on February 10th for a two-day video shoot with director Billie Woodruff (Britney Spears).

 

In other Isley news, Legacy will continue their string of reissues for the group in April. The group's classic 1973 release 3 + 3 (featuring the hit "That Lady, Pt. 1 and 2") will be remastered and expanded along with Caravan of Love, the 1984 album issued by the splinter group featuring Ernie and Marvin Isley along with cousin Chris Jasper. Also in the works is an album featuring the Isley Brothers hits remixed by various DJs. A lineup of remixers has not yet been set.

 

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Mary J. Blige faces a $10 million lawsuit from songwiters

 

The reigning Queen of HipHop and R&B Mary J. Blige has been slapped with a $10,000,000 lawsuit from her songwriters. The New York Post reportedly spoke with Wallace Collins, the lawyer for Kiyamma Griffin and Floyd Howard, who states his clients are suing Mary J. Blige for $10 million, claiming she stiffed them on royalties for songs they wrote for her last two platinum albums.

 

 

Collins said, "We've been writing letters for two years saying, 'You're in breach,' and they keep saying we'll get the money in the next payment period." Blige's rep at MCA didn't comment..

 

 

Source: launch.com.

 

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Truth Hurts must remove her album from record shelves

 

An Indian composer has won a court injunction halting the sale of Dr. Dre protégé Truth Hurts' debut album and single based on claims that the hit song, "Addictive," sampled one of his compositions without credit.

A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled on Monday that "Addictive" must be removed from shelves unless composer Bappi Lahiri's name is added to the credits, according to Lahiri's attorney, Geoffrey Spellberg.

Lahiri filed suit against Dre, his Aftermath Records label, and parent company Interscope/Universal Music Group, citing uncredited use of the Hindi song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai," composed by Lahiri for the 1987 Indian film "Jhoothi."

Lahiri is seeking compensatory damages in excess of $1 million as a result of the failure to give credit and the loss of his ability to properly promote his music in the United States.

The composer claimed that the song's producer, West Coast rapper DJ Quik, sampled more than four minutes of Lahiri's track on "Addictive". Quik said he stumbled upon the track on television.

Unless the stickering takes place or Universal mounts a successful appeal, the injunction will stand until a June 17 trial date

Source: mtv.com