When he died in June 2009, Michael ... Jackson's label went through the material, then asked Timbaland and other top producers to finish the King of Pop's ideas with an album called Xscape.

Nearly five years after his death, Michael Jackson fans will finally get a look inside the late singer's archive vault with the release of Xscape on May 13. Epic Records CEO and chairman L.A. Reid ...

But that means most of the new tracks on "Xscape" are Timbaland songs featuring Michael Jackson, not the other way around. And while none of the eight original versions would have a chance at ...

That would seem to be the lesson of Xscape, the posthumous collection of songs culled from the late Michael Jackson's personal vault and "contemporized" by L.A. Reid, Timbaland and other hitmakers.

But “Xscape” sounds entirely current. “Michael knew how to make records like nobody’s business,” said Jon Nettlesbey, a composer-producer-engineer who frequently worked with Jackson.

Michael, which drew nearly all its songs from the last five years of Jackson’s life, Xscape draws its material from across almost two decades of MJ recordings, focusing on the songs Jackson ...

When Michael Jackson died in ... of those tracks into a new album called XSCAPE. Rodney Jerkins produced the LP’s title track, and it comes from Jackson’s kinda-underrated early-’00s ...

OPINION - 'Xscape' may carry the baggage of having arrived too late to capitalize on the surprisingly booming business of being Michael Jackson, which in many ways has proven more lucrative in ...

A new Michael Jackson album is on the way. Epic Records Chairman and CEO L.A. Reid is teaming up with the late legendary singer's estate for a second posthumous compilation album, 'XSCAPE,' to be ...

Like most artists who’ve been around longer than an album or so, Michael Jackson ... encounters with Jackson’s music that make him worth the pre- and posthumous ado. If Xscape is anything ...

Epic is releasing 'Xscape,' a new album from Michael Jackson, featuring what the label calls "contemporized" versions of songs the King of Pop was working on before he passed away in 2009.