Wednesday, February 11, 2009
By – J.C. You die one day and you go on to live forever. At least in the hearts and minds of the people you’ve impacted in some form or another during the course of your existence. That dawned on me last night as I finished browsing the music selections at Park Ave. CDs in [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
By – TimS I made a bet. Not a bet involving money or humiliating acts of any sort. But a bet I felt, had I won, the reward would outweigh the punishment had I lost. That bet was on the Super Bowl. If the Cardinals pulled off an upset my buddy Joe from the Steel [...]
[What's been getting spins in your CD player or tape deck? Here's a look at what's been getting play in ours...] By – Dank Lucas The word “green” is closely related to the Old English verb growan meaning “to grow” – and that is exactly what Pacewon and Mr. Green do on their 2008 banger The Only Color That Matters [...]
By – Craig Mazer I just heard the Rev. Joseph Lowery drop rhymes to end his speech at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. (Holy shit, I can’t believe I just got to write that: President Barack Obama.) It was funny, clever and did anyone four years ago think for one fucking minute that a [...]
Thursday, January 22, 2009
By – Dank Lucas I stood in a lobby full of applauding students and teachers Tuesday at a technical school full of laid off workers and unemployed mothers in one of the most hard hit regions of this country over the last eight years, Canton, OH. I marveled at history. My president is black. Wow. [...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
By – J.C. It seems like an eternity ago, when the majority of citizens in this country gave an outward sigh of “damn, here we go again” upon receiving the results of the past two presidential elections. But on Jan. 20, 2009 the weight of eight long years was finally lifted from the backs of us minorities [...]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
– By TimS Remember when that little Napster thing came along and ass-fucked the whole concept of the record business? I know Lars Ulrich does. Along with stuffing my (and essentially every other human beings) musical catalogue, what the peer-to-peer file sharing phenomenon eventually proved was that the people running the record business were as [...]
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
– By Craig Mazer I grew up getting presents and, until years later, never really thought much about how fucked up it is that gift expectations are instilled at such an early age. At some point I made a switch, a connection. Now don’t get me wrong. I love the feeling of giving someone something [...]
In case you missed the big game last night, J.C. sums it up just as he saw it from the comfort of his own home… Florida vs. Oklahoma – Football. This country loves itself some football. So do I. We also love ourselves a folk hero, one we can paint any old way we like. That [...]
The Hip-Hop Edition - In a year in which a gremlin sold nearly three million albums (a million in one week!) and a number of highly anticipated releases never happened, there were still a few handfuls of extremely well executed music that was delivered. In my opinion, one of those albums was a classic and appears [...]