Wednesday, April 29, 2009
– Imagine a world where blacks and whites can “all just get along” under the same roof… How funny was that? The people that created the video did so as part of a web series called ”Custom-built, Micro-Budget Commercials for MicroBilt Customers”. And it appears that the people in the video are the people you’ll find [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tear down boundaries. That’s what the Tow Away Zone does every Wednesday morning from 10 am-12 noon in the basement of 91.5 FM (www.WPRKDJ.org) at the Rollins College campus in Winter Park, FL. As 2009 approaches and the one-year anniversary of the show nears, host J. Charles sheds light on the past 11 months… Why Call It Tow [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
Because his opinion is very important (even if only to himself), Joint Contrast contributor TimS offers up his picks of the 10 best non hip-hop albums of 2008… Get Your Mind Right – Included are the 10 non hip-hop albums that didn’t make me want to throat fuck myself with a soup spoon. Seriously, extremely bad and [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008
Warning: Not for the faint of heart (in case the headline doesn’t get that point across!) The Vitals: Redneck reindeers? Christmas in jail? Would somebody actually have the balls to pop a cap in Santa’s ass? Those are just some of the twists and turns on the 2008 version of Happy Muthaf—in’ 2008 Holiday Season. Somewhere between [...]