Chuck Hurley Music

Jill Scott is hot and she’s got a new album
Jill Scott’s former students – creatively awakened to “Macbeth” by her notion of singing Willie the Shake to doo-wop tunes – might not agree, but the rest of the world owes a big thanks to the grumpy principal at Dobbins High School.
Wale – New Soul [Full] [2009] [HipHop] [Download]

Apple Logic Studio [OLD VERSION] $269.99 Introducing Logic Studio, Apple’s comprehensive suite of professional tools that provides musicians with everything they need to create in the studio, on the stage, and for the screen. Logic Studio includes Logic Pro 8, Apple’s professional music application; MainStage, an innovative new application for music performance; and Soundtrack Pro 2 for audio post-production. It also includes acclaimed i…

Encore (Deluxe Edition) $8.75 Eminem’s fourth album offers few surprises, but still enough pleasures to carry the day. As evinced by Em’s pre-election, pro-voting “Mosh,” this is not exactly the same Eminem who seemingly crapped on anything and everything. Encore finds a surprisingly mature Eminem waxing reflective about his battle with Benzino (“Like Toy Soldiers”) rather than unloading both barrels. However, it’s not all eld…

Arabic Groove (Putumayo Presents) $7.99 While not yet part of mainstream American music, Middle Eastern music, as evidenced by the rise of Algerian pop star Khaled in France, has sidled up to other club music forms in the hot spots of Paris, London, and elsewhere. To that end, Putumayo’s Arabic Groove brings us up to date with their compilation, a jubilant sonic party rooted in ancient musical tradition and structure, steeped in th…

ESPN Presents: Jock Jams, Volume 1 $10.99 A collection of well-known pop tunes, this record documents those ubiquitous tracks that have been played into the ground at nearly every sports facility in the country. Most, like “Whoomp! There It Is” and “Hip Hop Hooray,” are undeniably catchy, and other tracks were downright splendid when they first appeared on the scene. Some even credit “Pump Up the Volume” with being a breakthrough for the …