He switched his phone number (it’s now (281) 206-4336), so you shouldn’t feel too bad if you were curious about the whereabouts of Houston-bred MC Mike Jones, who turned asking people just who he was into a cottage industry. As it turns out, he’s been hanging out at home, losing weight on the Subway diet, getting into fights with lots of his former associates, paring down his collection of houses and cars to a place where he now has one of each, and working on a new record. There’s much more—seven pages worth of much more—but happily, the story ends with Jones just hanging out in Ocean City, Md., signing for people who attended a show of his until “whenever.” Aww. [Houston Press More »
In the high-risk, low-reward business of trying to introduce new artists into a slumping marketplace, hip hop labels have a lot of coping mechanisms at their disposal. The most common approach, of releasing single after single until one does well enough to assure decent first-week album sales, is still as popular as ever–as is the method of simply dumping the album in stores with a nonexistent promotional budget and then blaming its failure on the artist. But more and more over the past couple years, a third way to screw both the artist and the consumer has emerged as an alternative: EPs.
Houston rapper Mike Jones, who encouraged stalkers/lodged his name in America’s brains by shouting out his cell phone number everywhere he could, is once again telling fans to get on the horn if they feel like shooting the shit. More »
The video for Mike Jones’ “Turnin’ Headz,” from his long-delayed album The American Dream, seeks to explain Mike’s complicated relationship with his grill. More »
Mike Jones’ long-delayed The American Dream, the travails of which have been covered extensively in this space, is really for sure pinky-swear promise coming out on Nov. 20, according to Swishahouse/Asylum/Warner Bros. More »
Mike Jones’ long-delayed The American Dream, the travails of which have been covered extensively in this space, is really for sure pinky-swear promise coming out on Nov. 20, according to Swishahouse/Asylum/Warner Bros. More »
Even after his own label gave him the runaround, Major League Soccer has given Mike Jones a home as part of an initiative where an MLS teams pick their most favoritest band or musician, then that musician writes songs with the team in mind. More »
Yesterday’s Houston Chronicle had a piece on delayed hip-hop albums; among the albums profiled is UGK’s UGK (Underground Kingz), which after having its release date held up for a year is reportedly going to debut at No. 1 next week. (Who knew that waiting for the bottom to fall out of the CD market would pay off so handsomely?) Also mentioned in the piece is Mike Jones, whose album The American Dream was unceremoniously pushed back to October after vanishing from Atlantic’s schedule last month:
Who? Mike Jones, the man whose phone will never stop ringing, is surprisingly elusive on the alleged release date of his new album, The American Dream. More »
