"Stop Listening To Trash," Church Calls Out Rappers In New Campaign Another example of the backlash against commercial hip hop (tags: hip+hop)
links for 2007-06-11
Did Beyonce Kill Neo-Soul? Perhaps the problem was that there weren’t enough of these artists being developed to fill the gaps between albums by Erykah, Jill, Lauryn, D’Angelo etc. (tags: Beyonce neo+soul) Gnarls Barkley’s Label & Engadget’s Founder Launch Label 2.0 This sounds familiar because, well, didn’t someone else try this before? (tags: Gnarls+Barkley Downtown+Records [...]
links for 2007-04-30
Lynne d Johnson || is rock and roll racist? Just came across some insightful work done by Lynne Johnson on the subject of Black rock (tags: disconnect)
links for 2007-04-20
Cam’ron vows he’ll never help police – ever Unfortunately, this kind of idiocy is part of commercial hip hop’s alternate reality (tags: disconnect)
links for 2007-04-12
Now they’ll see his face – BUZZ BANDS – Los Angeles Times – calendarlive.com Kenna’s electro-soul album–"New Sacred Cows"–was produced by the Neptunes. (tags: bands identity)
links for 2007-04-06
Chicago Reader | Sharp Darts | His Not-So-Secret Identity: Ralph Darden comes out from behind his DJ handle to push the debut full-length by the Jai-Alai Savant. Ralph Darden, a genre smasher out of Chicago, both as DJ Major Taylor and as frontman for Jai-Alai Savant, whose new record hits April 10 (tags: bands)
links for 2007-03-02
‘We are not members of a tribe. We are not linked by blood or soil. We are citizens of an idea.’ (Blipster.info) This is what I love: "We are citizens of an idea." Great. (tags: identity)





