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The Day the “Music” Died: Thoughts on MTV finally synthesizing music and culture and losing the “Music Television” name
With increasing regularity, music has become the key vehicle which we use to discover culture. Music provides a soundtrack and is the expression of the souls of those moved by culture to express to the world how a particular movement affects the universe. Until the moment The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” played on [...]
Announced: The Roots Picnic in Philly
Wow. So Every weird Black person on the East Coast is gonna be at this event. Including me. More details as they come.
Facebook Music Stumbles Out of the Gate
Facebook, known to many as the “grown and sexy” version of MySpace, is slowly rolling out its music platform in order to compete with the dominant social networking giant. Although MySpace has twice as many members as Facebook, the smaller, scrappier site is actually adding subscribers at a faster rate, and many people in the [...]
Jack Davey vs. The Industry
Things aren’t going well with J*Davey and their deal with Warner Brothers records. Last week, Miss Jack Davey posted a manifesto on her personal blog:
this is intended for all of you lowly puppets who sit in your big offices in big buildings that will soon be out of business & thus, forced to hold vacant [...]
Update: RIP Pimp C
TMZ is reporting this as well as Concrete Loop. What the hell is going on??
Update: Got this in my inbox from UGK’s record label:
It is with great sadness that Jive Records announces the passing of Chad “Pimp C” Butler, a member of the celebrated rap duo UGK (Underground Kingz). Jive Records’ President and CEO [...]
Kick Out The Jams
http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/217/1061/28464.html
“The sixth release from the en fuego T&A Records comes courtesy of Baltimore’s own Dave Nada. If you don’t know Dave, he’s played in a bunch of hardcore bands around the Bmore/DC area, produced with one of the guys from Q & Not U under the name Rubber Bullets, and now holds it down as [...]
Miri Ben Ari, Your 15 Minutes of Fame Are Up.
Paul Dateh – Violin Sampler
I never got Miri Ben Ari. Sure she was attractive. Sure, she could play violin, but honestly her only real true claim to fame is being backup strings for Kanye West and Twista. As much as she wants to claim that she’s the “Hip-Hop Violinist”, the album that bears [...]
Music News: No Fugees Reunion, New Gnarls Album, Spank Rock
No Fugees Reunion
According to your by Pras, the new Fugees reunion album ain’t happening:
“We went in the studio and recorded a couple records that were incredible. But, to put it nicely, it’s dead,” says Pras. “Me and Clef, we on the same page, but Lauryn [Hill] is in her zone, and I’m fed [...]
Random Ish: Monday, July 9, 2007
Please give me a reason, as a grown man who is turning 27 next month, not to buy this.
And the Transformers movie is hands down the best movie I’ve seen all summer. If you’re an 80’s baby you owe it to yourself to go and see it.
Hope everybody had a good 4th of July cause [...]
Akon Dropped from Verizon, Issues Statement
I usually don’t talk about Akon on this blog cause I got sick and tired of his omnipresence a long time ago. Case in point: somehow my clock radio alarm got switched from buzz to radio mode this past week, so I hear this dude’s voice almost three times before I even get out of [...]
Walking While Black: Nas and Kells “treated like terrorists”
Another week, another rapper getting harrased by the authorities.
This time its Nas and Kelis who were rushed by security at a House of Blues in San Diego. Nas tells AllHipHop.com that:
We came to the club, all excited. Couldn’t wait to get here. [The tour venues] have been sold out every night. The energy [...]
F**k Tha Police
I’m sickened and saddened by Questlove’s new Myspace Blog post. There are no words to describe the hell that he went through.
But still, I’m torn on the Stop Snitchin’ debate. What happened to Questlove happens to many young Black men every day, and as the victim of an unnecessary stop and search (the officer thought [...]
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The Musical Minority Podcast: Asher Roth in the age of Black Music
Asher finds himself in the same position as many other white artists who make black music, but in 2009, has anything changed?
Podcast: Kidz In The Hall
It’s been a while since we had a podcast…..I know people have been asking me about it, and we’ve been dark since May, HOWEVER, we return to the podcast game with a special guest–Nawledge and Double-O from Kidz In The Hall.
Random Ish Radio 025: Badu Remixed, Jay Electronica, Res, Other Treats
Another collection of delectable treats for your iPod.
Random Ish Radio 024: The Podcast Is Back!!!
Whats up people. I can’t even believe that Its been almost a year since the last Podcast dropped. My bad.
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Review: Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
If it takes us a few listens to really get into the Gorillaz newest album. Can we blame ourselves?
We are forced fed music that is derivative of another. Pop music all sounds the same, with each artist essentially sounding like the one who came 3 months before them. When we hear something as creative and [...]
ALBUM REVIEW: Outputmessage – Autonomous
Washington, DC by way of Queens, NY electronic dance music producer Outputmessage is likely one of the more underrated EDM artists in the genre. The eight year veteran has received terrific acclaim both stateside and abroad for his musically dense but pop trending melodies awakening a sense of early 80s synth pop sounds. However, with [...]
Album Review: Sade – Soldier of Love
While not a masterpiece, in an era where the market has been deluged by a new female soul vanguard that angles increasingly towards pop, Sade remains regal, calm, collected and steadfast, and merely releases the standard bearer album to define the female expression in R & B for 2010.
Sade’s musical legacy lies in her ability [...]
ALBUM REVIEW:Massive Attack “Heligoland”
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus
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Tomorrow marks the official release date (U.S. and Canada) for Heligoland, the 5th proper studio album by Massive Attack.
Whereas the 2003 release 100th Window glistened with mechanical accuracy and disciplined minimal techno, Heligoland finds the Bristol duo returning to the dirtier, dubbed out sound of [...]
