listening session

Jay-Z and Kanye West are nearing the release date for their 'Watch the Throne' collaboration and the rap duo threw a grand album listening affair -- held inside the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City -- for attendees that included celebrities, journalists and critics alike Monday night (August 1)...

The lobby of the Mercer Hotel was crowded with industry types on Thursday night (July 7): various members of the press, music journalists, bloggers, magazine reps and then two teen boys, who sat with their parents conspicuously. The miniature mob, at the behest of a publicist, crowded into an elevator -- thick with the smell of marijuana smoke -- in two tightly packed shifts...