The Affix A-List, Episode 6: Thanksgiving

With Turkey Day just over a week away, we’ve got plenty to be thankful for here at Affix…not the least of which is great music.  While it’s doubtful that the Pilgrims were bumping Urban beats as they pulled up in The Mayflower to settle The New World, a quick search through our catalogue yielded a [...]

Nappy Roots Join Affix Family

With over 5 million records sold, 2 Grammy nominations, a MTV Video Music Award nomination, 2 American Music Award nominations as well as a Soul Train award nomination, it’s fair to say that Nappy Roots know what they’re doing.  So we were flattered when they chose to partner with Affix in licensing music from their [...]

The Affix A-List, Episode 4: Now That’s What I Call Affix!

Whether it’s your favorite guilty pleasure or a scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs anthem, pop music is a part of all of our lives. Dominating radio airways, TV shows, shopping malls and dance floors, pop is simply inescapable. After all, the word pop is simply shorthand for popular and these days, nothing is more popular than Urban. From Beiber [...]

Affix Welcomes Nappy Roots

Affix is proud to welcome the award-winning Nappy Roots to our family of Music Providers. Signed to Atlantic Records in 2000, Nappy Roots chose to end its affiliation with the major label and is now a highly successful independent act, utilizing new model revenue generators such as the one-stop licensing Affix provides.  Focusing on Nappy Roots [...]

Music in Photography

The role of the modern photographer is evolving. What was once viewed as a journalistic medium is now an artistic forum and just about everything in the game has changed. Modern technology enables photographers to put their fingerprints on their images through various lighting techniques and editing practices – ask five different photographers to shoot [...]

The Affix A-List, Episode 2: Back To School

Days filled with both excitement and anxiety mark the commencement of a new school year, and in this edition of The Affix A-List we pay tribute to playground pranks, first loves, lessons learned, and the teachers who make it all happen.

The Affix A-List, Episode 1: Urban Redefined

For all of its’ contemporary clout (9 out of the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, 8 out of the iTunes Top 10 Singles this week), Urban Music has surprisingly long, deep roots. Indeed, many of todayʼs urban hits draw their influences from Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Rock, and Pop music.  Long gone are the [...]