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    Kia Makarechi

    Kia Makarechi

    Senior Editor for Mobile and Innovations, The Huffington Post

  • Producer Says Disco Never Died

    Marco Niemerski produces sleek, melodic club music as Tensnake, but the German artist didn't start out behind a turntable. "I'm glad that no records exist," the producer laughed during a recent interview with The Huffington Post.

  • Historic Event Reveals Line-Up For First U.S. Festival

    Kaskade, Steve Aoki and a host of other A-list DJs will grace the stages at Mysteryland's inaugural stateside run, the dance music festival revealed Thursday. The event will take place Memorial Day weekend at Bethel Woods, in New York -- the famed site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair Festival. The Huffington Post is a media partner of Mysteryland.

  • Jay Z And Kanye West Strike A Deal

    Announced today, Kanye West's creative house DONDA enters into partnership with Roc Nation to manage all DONDA Music. The partnership will focus on Mr. West's international recording brand and worldwide touring ventures. A multi-discipline design and content company, DONDA saw its early beginnings seeded by the 2009 footwear collaboration with fashion house Louis Vuitton.

  • ScHoolboy Q: 'I Got The Monkey Off My Back'

    ScHoolboy Q jumped in the hot seat at CRWN, Myspace and Elliott Wilson's rapper interview series, for an in-depth interview on "Oxymoron," the artist's just-released studio LP. Over the course of the conversation, the Top Dawg Entertainment artist shared stories of growing up in Los Angeles and relayed his disappointment with the current state of rap media.

  • Chromeo Offer Some Thoughts On 'White Women'

    "We spent double, triple, quadruple the amount of time on everything for this album," Dave 1 (real last name Macklovitch) says of his and Patrick "P-Thugg" Gemayel's efforts this time around. A good chunk of that energy, as Macklovitch explains over the course of emailed responses to HuffPost Entertainment's questions about their first studio album in four years, means bringing in as many collaborators as possible. Among the drafted talents was Chazwick Bradley Bundick, who produces as Toro y Moi.

  • Steve Angello Has A Surprise For You

    SIZE Records head honcho and superstar DJ Steve Angello has been teasing fans with hints of what to except at his upcoming #DECADE celebration. Now, HuffPost Entertainment is happy to reveal the line-up and concept trailer for the March 27 event. The RC Cola Plant has long been a haven for street artists, but the SIZE party marks the first time a music event has ever been held in the space.

  • Dance Music Heavyweights Do Something Entirely Different

    Between headlining festivals and hosting their massively popular "Group Therapy" radio show, the three gents in Above & Beyond are undoubtedly among dance music's biggest stars. "It was Tony [McGuinness]' idea to do the acoustic album," A&B member Jono Grant told The Huffington Post. "Me, personally, I would have been too scared to do it." Grant, McGuiness and Paavo Siljamäki worked with composer Bob Bradley to transform their dance hits into sometimes haunting, sometimes romantic reworks that they then performed live at London's Porchester Hall and Los Angeles' Greek Theatre.

  • The Most Overlooked Part Of Super Bowl Party Planning Is Most Important

    It's easy to think that Super Bowl parties are just about food and football, but if you're really going to entertain your guests, you'll need some music to keep things moving before and after the Big Game. Fear not: Our friends at Songza have you covered. Just follow along with our party guide, which will take you fromsetting up your place to a party all the way through the end of Sunday night.

  • Everyone Is Mad About Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Grammy Wins

    Macklemore and Ryan Lewis swept the rap categories at Sunday night's Grammy Awards, picking up statues for Best Rap Song ("Thrift Shop"), Best Rap Performance ("Thrift Shop") and Best Rap Album ("The Heist"). A passionate debate about the Seattle rapper's likely win had been percolating on the internet for months. Many pointed to Kendrick Lamar's "Good Kid Maad City" as the LP that should have won Best Rap Album, and to Kanye West's "New Slaves" for Best Rap Song.

  • A Ballet For Your Kids Will Love As Much As You Do

    The New York Theatre Ballet knows the value of exposing children to the arts, but its Once Upon a Ballet series doesn't simply create a safe space for youngsters who might not make it through a multi-hour performance in silence. Before Alice (Elena Zahlmann) burst out of her dollhouse, kids in the audience were encouraged to work through a series of pliés and sautés, jumping their way to 16 counts in front of their seats. Children (and their parents) were not alienated by overbearing shushing, and exclamations of "there's Humpty Dumpty!" only enriched the audience's overall experience.

  • Scarlett Johansson Breaks Silence Over Controversial Endorsement Deal

    Scarlett Johansson has been the subject of intense scrutiny since she became a brand ambassador for SodaStream, a company that has drawn criticism for operating a factory in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. "I remain a supporter of economic cooperation and social interaction between a democratic Israel and Palestine," the actress said. "SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights.

  • VH1 Airing Six Nights Of Live Concerts Before Super Bowl

    Just as players, performers and an endless sea of promoters descend upon New York City for the Super Bowl, VH1 is running a six-night series of live concerts featuring the likes of Janelle Monaé, the Goo Goo Dolls and Fall Out Boy. The Super Bowl Blitz, as its called, can be enjoyed either in person or from the comfort of one's home. "We wanted artists that represent VH1's diverse pool of music from pop, rock to R&B," VH1 President Tom Calderone told HuffPost in an email.

  • Quirky Stop-Motion Video Tells Cute Love Story

    Swedish House Mafia alum Axwell fielded fan-made videos for the remixes to his hit "I AM," which features Taylr Renee and Sick Individuals. HuffPost Entertainment is happy to premiere the visuals for the Jacob Plant remix, a driving, bottomed-out electro rework. In the video clip, which was submitted by Evan McNary through a Genero.tv competition, a lovelorn furniture store employee plots and fumes his way into the arms of a lucky-ish lady.

  • Sage Francis Drops New Video On HuffPost Live

    "I think I got sick to death of a lot of the stuff that I was involved with," Francis told host Mike Sacks on HuffPost Live on Monday. "Now I'm in a rebirthing period -- I'm releasing stuff independently... this is the first time I do it on Strange Famous Records." The rapper framed this mixtape and his next album as a return to music after surviving a difficult period in his life (and a decade of relentless touring). The track, which takes a deep dive into the psychology of war and being a soldier, was inspired in part by a conversation Francis had with an Iraqi war veteran who survived a helicopter crash.

  • Nicki Minaj's 3 Wild Rules For Revenge

    Nicki Minaj casually dropped a remix to PTAF's "Boss Ass Bitch" on Monday, and it's an end of the year rubric for women who prefer a particularly brutal form of payback. After announcing that it was a "p—y holiday, a play with my p—y day," she offered up three rules for would-be "boss ass bitches" to follow should their relationships start going south. Take a listen and read below, but be warned, the prescription isn't family friendly.

  • What Yoko Ono Learned This Year

    Yoko Ono is an indefatigable spirit who spent 2013 like she has spent many of the past 80 years: making music, dabbling in the fine and performance arts and protesting against environment-degrading greed. The latter is a remix package of the seminal Ono tune the singer recorded with John Lennon on the last day of the late Beatle's life. For more, check out our earlier interview with Ono, in which she reflects on Lennon's passing and muses that the Beatle would have loved Twitter.

  • Beyoncé Explains The Birth Of 'Yoncé'

    On Saturday afternoon, Beyoncé screened the corresponding videos at New York's School of Visual Arts and appeared in person to answer some previously submitted fan questions about the project. Among the topics addressed as fans ate popcorn from "Beyoncé" bags and drank sodas and huckleberry juice: motherhood, why Beyoncé shared more personal details of her life on this record than ever before and how she kept the entire effort under wraps until it hit iTunes. "We were in the studio, and Justin Timberlake started beating on buckets.

  • Jay Z: 'Getting White Money But I'm Still Black'

    Rick Ross and Jay Z let go of "The Devil Is A Lie," a hotly anticipated track off Ross' upcoming "Mastermind" LP on Thursday. The track features considerable flexing on the part of both the 37-year-old Rozay and 44-year-old Hov, both of whom are eager to share stories about stepping on drugs and revel in their relative brand associations. Ross gets in a plug for Wingstop, Jay continues his song-ruining habit of repping D'Ussé (see: Beyonce's "Drunk In Love"), and Jay even goes so far as to mention the Illuminati and stop and frisk.

  • Beyonce Breaks Past 1 Million-Sale Mark

    The good news keeps coming for Mrs. Carter: Apple and Columbia Records tell The Huffington Post that Beyonce's self-titled album has sold over 1 million copies in the worldwide iTunes Store. The millionth sale came around 11:15 am PST on Wednesday, a source with knowledge of the matter told HuffPost. "Beyoncé," released as a surprise shot as Thursday ticked over into Friday of last week, became the fastest-selling album to ever hit iTunes.

  • Cash Cash Drops Visuals For Radio Favorite

    New York-based dance production and DJ trio Cash Cash are having a nice run of it, thanks in no small part to "Take Me Home." MTV viewers are already familiar with the infectious banger, as it kept the network moving during a bumper that launched during this year's Video Music Awards. Since then, the track, featuring Bebe Rexha, has taken on a life of its own, dominating dance radio and being added to major markets on the likes of New York's Z100 and Los Angeles' KIIS FM. HuffPost Entertainment is pleased to exclusively premiere the video for "Take Me Home." In the clip, a pair of lover-haters heads out of town for a weekend of fun, fights and flameouts.