Tag: music
How I use Twitter
After reading Owen's post about Twitter Influence there was a brief discussion in the Habari IRC channel about who people follow and why. One part of the conversation was about celebrities. One person...
Standardizing Artist Naming in iTunes
Okay, this doesn't apply to just iTunes, but since it is the de facto application for downloading music, they have more of an impact on standardizing a naming convention. This would also apply to Amaz...
In the Event of My Demise
In the event of my Demise when my heart can beat no more I Hope I Die For A Principle or A Belief that I had Lived 4 I will die Before My Time Because I feel the shadow's Depth so much I wanted 2 acco...
Hip Hop Hipsters
I give hipsters a lot of shit for, well, being hipsters, but there's another group of people who were around before the hipster fad. They dress a certain way, listen to music "you've never heard of,"...
Blue Scholars
In my constant quest for new hip hop music I've seen one name come across my screen several times: Blue Scholars. Even though I've seen them mentioned by various underground hip hop fanboys, I've neve...
The Most Creative Hip Hop Albums
I'm very passionate when it comes to hip hop. At times I'm its biggest advocate, and others the biggest apologist. Most of the hip hop that is played on the radio embarrasses me. That isn't true hip h...
Live Fast, Die Young
13 years ago today, at the age of 25, Tupac Amaru Shakur passed away after being shot six days earlier in Las Vegas. He was a talented musician, poet, and actor and will forever be missed. Rest in pea...
Bat for Lashes Saved My Life
The band Bat for Lashes saved my life this morning. No, really. Let me explain. It all started last night while reading Questlove's tweets. Questlove is the drummer for The Roots. If you don't know Th...
Music Goes Viral
We have seen movies and television use the tactic of viral marketing a bunch over the past couple years. The TV show LOST has had commercials for the fictional airline Oceanic and there was even a Mr....
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Today marks the releases of another QN5 gem. I'm talking of Mr. SOS's How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb album. From QN5.com, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (named afte...
Blackout! 2
10 years ago two of the best rappers in the game joined together to finally release an album. The result is one of the better albums from the late 90's. I'm talking about Method Man and Redman's Black...
Respect Your Elders
Hip hop is, by far, one of the youngest genres of music in America, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been around for a while. It really is amazing to see that the pioneers of the music are still around...
Chris Cornell - Scream
Chris Cornell is getting a lot of heat lately. Longtime fans of the Audioslave and Soundgarden singer were quite vocal about the news of his latest solo album attempt, Scream. When news broke that it...
Hip Hop History, Part III - Building the Empire
I've talked a bit about the history of hip hop music and how it quickly evolved into a profitable form of music, but no other company was able to capitalize on hip hop like Def Jam Records, and no oth...
Pre-Order CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Volume One
I have some great news for fans who love great music. One of the best (if not THE best) hip hop groups has a new release dropping soon. You can now pre-order Strange Journey Volume One by CunninLyngui...
Hip Hop History, Part II - The Beginning of a Dynasty
In my last post you learned a little about the beginnings of hip hop music as a business. While the song Rapper's Delight might have sold two million copies world wide, the industry still saw hip hop...
1979 - The Beginning of an Industry
The year was 1979. The place was New York. The event was the beginning of a multi-billion dollar industry that has spanned three decades and has spread throughout the world. What am I talking about? H...
Disappointed in the New XM Channel Lineup
The new lineup for the merged SiriusXM satellite radio service came out today. You can view changes here. Two of the stations I listen to, in fact, the two I listen to 90% of the time, have changed. E...
Tonedeff- Warden (Love Lockdown Rmx)
One of my favorite artists, Tonedeff, created a remix of Kanye West's Love Lockdown. Tonedeff states, "It’s not so much a remix is as it is a re imagining of the concept – added a bunch of instrumenta...