On the list of some of the coolest shit I’ve seen in a while. A lot of these minimalist interpretations of movies and books have been popping up quite a bit in the last year, but this is the first I’ve seen done for iconic music videos by Federico Mancosu.
Great part about these posters is the credit given to the director for making these videos stand out in our minds, its not just the musician(s) creating the indelible mark these videos have left on our minds.
Featuring Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Beastie Boys’ Sabotage, and Beck’s Devil’s Haircut to name a few. You can snag these sweet prints at ImageKind.com
I spent my formative years in Atlanta, thus Creative Loafing was required reading, f0r those that don’t know, think of it as the Atlanta equivalent to LA Weekly, but better. So before you made your way down to Little 5, The Tabernacle, or The Underground, you knew what was going down.
Long story short I often hit them and Maurice Garland regularly to stay up on the latest happenings in the city thats got my heart. Every year they put together an excellent issue dedicated solely to the music emanating from the city. The latest was no doubt one of the magazine’s strongest. Atlanta has been bubbling over with new talent recently that are now gaining public awareness and Creative Loafing did a great job of bringing it all together in this year’s edition.
Another great discussion. This is one in a series of 9th Wonder and Mark Anthony Neal’s “Sampling Soul.” They bring in Harry Weinger, Vice President of A&R for Universal Music Enterprises for this discussion on sampling and the Motown catalog.
I’d love to give exerpts, but again that wouldn’t do this justice. Enjoy.
This is a great discussion. This is one in a series of 9th Wonder and Mark Anthony Neal’s “Sampling Soul.” They bring in Bucknell English Professor James Braxton Peterson for this discussion of Nas’ seminal 1994 album, Illmatic.
I’d love to give exerpts, but that wouldn’t do this justice. Enjoy.
Thanks to Duke University for a forward thinking class, and Nodfactor for the link.
HerFavColor posted this last night to his tumblr and twitter just over 15 hours ago. I found out about Blu when Below The Heavens dropped and haven’t found anyone yet whom I patiently await a release.
I’ve never been one of those constant Youtube users. It always seemed rather cheap on the whole. I only find out about cool shit on youtube through friends, blogs, etc. Having to sit through an unreliable buffering video only to have its quality be spotty at best, even with the current HD setting, which has made the experience a bit better. But that still doesn’t make watching someone with an overinflated since of importance discuss the occult symbolism of Lady Gaga, or poorly edited cat videos.
This is why Vimeo is the shit; well crafted videos and art in high quality, with a low level of bullshit thrown in. (more…)
In a day where the R&B landscape is dominated by soft spoken potentially DL brothers like Trey Songz, The Dream, and Jay Sean, its sad that it takes a death to remind us that R&B used to have some balls. There is something interesting to be said about a man, through song, telling women he is going to give them everything they want but also take what he desires.
As we collectively wait for an absurdly expensive glowing ball to hit the ground, we are faced with a great unknown about the days ahead. We call family, we call friends, we make preposterous statements called ‘Resolutions’, and then proceed to do the same thing we always do: get hammered on our intoxicant of choice.
I for one am no different. I both enjoy and loathe the cycle that begins and, to be perfectly honest persists through, a new year. I call family, I call friends, and I drink, etc, the order being the only variable (Mom I apologize for 2005).
This is a New Years pattern we’ve all grown accustomed to, and is no different in music, especially Hip Hop. We go through the paces. Each year in recent history there is the call that there are no fresh artists, no fresh ideas, no lyricists, and of course the ubiquitous HIP HOP IS DEAD. (more…)
I’ve spoken about the man Bobby Ray, a.k.a. B.O.B. before. You know I think he is a part of a Renaissance of Atlanta music, along with Spree Wilson, grab the Evil Angel EP.
