J-ricz released his sophomore album entitled “Musicphiliac” this week. The album is fully written and produced by J-Ricz bringing in a new wave of vision and creativity to the music scene. The new album encompasses an evolution of J-Ricz’ music career as first songwriter, then performer and now producer. For a feel of what “Musicphiliac” has to offer, take a look at his latest singles Go and Love Affair.

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J-Ricz’ record release party featuring J-Ricz and a number of collaborations is slated for September in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Go by J-ricz

More about J-Ricz
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, J-Ricz brings fresh new R&B/pop music to his fan base locally and nationally. J-Ricz’ roots are from the Bay Area’s R&B male group, “Next Phaze”. As his career and music evolved, J-Ricz made his debut as a solo artist in 2008 with the album, “Genesis.” The album has been well-received also internationally, especially in the Japan market. J-Ricz’ singles “Do For You” & “Beautiful Life” have become one of the top sellers on iTunes Japan.

Linkin Park released a trailer for their upcoming album documentary “Meeting of A Thousand Suns.” Physical versions of the album “A Thousand Suns” will include this documentary that offers a behind the scenes look at the creative process for Linkin Park. Here’s statement about the album:

We were not making an album.

For months, we’d been destroying and rebuilding our band. The experiments that resulted filled the studio hard drive with diverse, abstract sounds. Amorphous echoes, cacophonous samples, and handmade staccato merged into wandering, elusive melody. Each track felt like a hallucination.

We didn’t know if any of those unorthodox ideas could be incorporated into a traditional album, but we knew we didn’t want our next album to be predictable. Sitting together in the same studio where we made our first album, all six of us voiced a commitment to going out on a limb, to making something truly daring. We asked ourselves: were we all earnestly willing, more than ever before, to abandon the precepts of commercial ambition in pursuit of what we believe to be honest art?

The inclination to begin writing conventional songs for a conventional album came and went. The temptation to adjust our creative vision to fulfill expectations beyond our studio walls yielded to the audacious ambition of what we hoped to achieve as a band. The two years of making ‘A Thousand Suns’ marked our exhilarating, surrealistic, and often challenging journey into the creative unknown.

On the eve of its completion, this body of work, assembled through unconscious inspiration and unmitigated exertion, has revealed to us notions both stirring and surprising. The album’s personified imagery is neither dogma nor political premeditation. The emergent themes and metaphors illuminate a uniquely human story.

‘A Thousand Suns’ grapples with the personal cycle of pride, destruction, and regret. In life, like in dreams, this sequence is not always linear. And, sometimes, true remorse penetrates the devastating cycle. The hope, of course, springs from the notion that the possibility of change is born in our most harrowing moments.

Enjoy the music.

Linkin Park

A Thousand Suns is dropping on 9.14.10. (Pre-order here.) A few days before the release on Sunday, September 12, 2010, Linkin Park will perform “The Catalyst” live on TV for the first time ever at the MTV Video Music Awards. The show airs that day at 9:00PM.

Meeting of A Thousand Suns Trailer with Linkin Park