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7 May

Most Important Cultural Shift in American Pop Music Began w/ 90s Hip Hop

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  Engineers & Biologists Analyze 17,000 Songs Spanning 50 Years: "Hip Hop Is Pop Music's Most Important Revolution". Source: “The Evolution of Popular Music: USA 1960-2010,” by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, in Royal Society Open Science (Kyle Kim) by Eryn Brown LA Times/Science Now Forget the Beach Boys, Michael Jackson and Madonna. The most important cultural shift in American pop music began with the explosion of rap in the early 1990s. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones didn’t spark the British Invasion of the 1960s,...
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5 May

Listen to Every Single Music Genre, Ever

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by Robbie Gonzalez, io9 If you've ever wanted to hear the difference between traditional funk and Memphis soul, or understand where they fit in the context of more than 1300 musical genres, you might want to clear your schedule. An interactive project called Every Noise at Once is about to devour the rest of your day. According to project creator and "genre taxonomist" Glenn McDonald: [Every Noise at Once] is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed...
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30 Mar

Our Record Industry Nightmare: Unlocking the Truth’s Journey

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Photo: Chad Batka/The New York Times/Redux (I was hoping against hope these kids would be treated right. :( ) by Marlow Stern The Daily Beast Their Times Square metal performance went viral, and a trio of 11- and 12-year-olds were signed to a $1.8 million record deal. Then they realized what the industry was all about. People tend to romanticize the music industry. Behind every successful band is, it seems, a story of a renegade A&R representative who discovered them cracking away at a dive...
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25 Mar

‘We Like It Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo’ @ Hostos, May 8+9, 2015

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MULTIMEDIA, MUSIC
'We Like It Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo' Sneak Preview + Panel Discussion @ Repertory Theater, Hostos Arts Center Friday May 8, 2015, 7:30 p.m. FREE ADMISSION - CALL BOX OFFICE FOR TICKETS (718) 518-4455 In partnership with City Lore, Hostos Center presents an evening devoted to understanding Boogaloo, its origins, rise and fall, including a sneak preview of selected scenes from the forthcoming feature-length documentary, We Like it Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo, with filmmaker Mathew Ramirez Warren, and guest panelists, moderated by the noted folklorist and...
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24 Mar

Lithofayne Pridgon: Jimi Hendrix’s Original ‘Foxy Lady’

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MUSIC, WOMEN
Jimi and Lithofayne outside the Apollo, 1969. Photograph: Courtesy of Lithofayne Pridgon   Sam Cooke, Sly Stone and Little Willie fought for her attention. Jimi Hendrix loved her so much he wrote songs about her. In a rare interview Lithofayne Pridgon tells Chris Campion the unvarnished story of Harlem’s wildest music scene – and how she came to be Hendrix’s greatest muse by Chris Champion The Observer‘ They were bold and daring, yet endearing at the same time, and they allowed me to just be...
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19 Mar

Love, Peace & Soulquarians

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Great piece by my old friend; always ahead of the curve. by Michael Gonzales | Soul Head @gonzomike @qtiptheabstract @questlove @common Recently I had a conversation with my homie Andrea Rose Clarke aka Sister from Another Planet, about my lack of enthusiasm for reading poetry. There are, of course, a few exceptions, which includes the works of Amiri Baraka, Bob Kaufman, Victor Hernández Cruz and, especially Ntozake Shange. These poets crafted work that made me feel electricity flowing through their words. Reading their poems way back in my Harlem youth, it was...
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1 Mar

Debbie Harry on Punk and Refusing to Retire

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MUSIC, WOMEN
Debbie Harry at 69: 'You have to keep new influences coming in' Photo: MIKE MCGREGOR Forty years after Blondie found fame on the New York scene, Debbie Harry is still waving the flag for women in the music business – of every age by Sheryl Garratt | The Telegraph In 1980, during a tour with Blondie, Debbie Harry hosted a tea party at a London hotel, gathering together many of the women prominent in music at the time. Chrissie Hynde was there; Siouxsie Sioux; the Slits...
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21 Feb

Poitier Meets Plato – ‘Journey Inside of the Mind’ (and happy belated birthday!)

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How could I forget to acknowledge one of my all-time favorite actors. Sir Poitier also made a few spoken word and poetry albums. I have 2 copies because they sneakily released this album; not just a with different cover, but a different title!  Here he recites excerpts from Plato's works over music composed and conducted by Fred Katz. Same album:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0sKPFbJzo  ...
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21 Feb

The Clash @ Bonds, Times Square 1981

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One of my favorite "I was there" moments. I was friendly with a short chubby woman who loved rockabilly clothes and boy bands named Louise Byron, who also happened to be a vegetarian caterer (we're talking 1981--rare, even in NYC). The Clash were vegetarians and somehow, Louise got the gig to cater their food backstage. I'd already been helping her with her business, so she hired me help her with this too.  I got to see at least 3 of the shows; I remember Grandmaster Flash,...
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21 Feb

‘You Can’t Use My Name’: Jimi Hendrix’s Curtis Knight Recordings

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'You Can’t Use My Name' features 14 songs the guitar god recorded prior to Jimi Hendrix Experience by Daniel Kreps | Rolling Stone Early recordings of Jimi Hendrix when he was a guitarist in the R&B group Curtis Knight and the Squires will finally be released with the authorization of his estate's Experience Hendrix LLC in a new collection titled You Can’t Use My Name: Curtis Knight & The Squires (featuring Jimi Hendrix) The RSVP/PPX Sessions. The 14-track album is due out March 24th. Jimi Hendrix's Last Interview...
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18 Feb

The Brother Moves On, My South African Brothers From Another Planet

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LISTEN: “Wenu Wetla”(full 16 minutes) from The Golden Wake​ [​MASTERED] by The Brother Moves On. The Golden Wake[MASTERED] by The Brother Moves On (This is a review from the fantastic blog Bold As Love by my music tastemaker-writer-programmer friend Rob Fields. I couldn't do nearly as good a job, so I just made a few updates.)   The truth is, this is all Andrea Clarke’s fault. A couple of Saturdays ago, I was listening to Andrea’s show on WBAI, Sister From Another Planet where, for nearly an hour, she...
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18 Feb

Pussy Riot Release Eric Garner Protest Song “I Can’t Breathe” w/Nick Zinner & Richard Hell

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IT'S ALL POLITICAL, MUSIC, WOMEN
Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina, left, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova at a news conference in Berlin on Feb. 9. (Markus Schreiber/AP) NME Newsdesk Pussy Riot have released their first English language song – a protest song featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner on bass and Richard Hell reading Eric Garner's final words.                                                                    ...
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12 Feb

London’s Pirate Radio Pioneers

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MUSIC, SUBCULTURE/LIFESTYLE
by amfmLondon amfm.org.uk Tracing the history of London's original dance music stations through clips, music and contemporary news reports and interviews. The beginning It seems crazy now, but in 1980 there were just three stations playing popular music in London: Capital Radio, Radio One and BBC Radio London. Even worse, the music licensing agencies restricted them to playing records for 12 hours a day or less. On Sunday evenings Radio One closed down at 7pm and Capital Radio had classical music followed by...
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11 Feb

Jah9, Princess of the new wave of conscious reggae has a LOT to say.

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MUSIC, WOMEN
by Andrea Sister From Another Planet There are certain artists who aren't really noted for their singing prowess. Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Mos Def, even music icons like Nina Simone, Bob Marley and Fela aren't what you'd call "singers' singers". But they are revered for their delivery, poignancy, prolific and often progressive and political lyrics, moving and inspiring millions of people. Janine Cunningham, known Jah9 is a new(er) artist I believe falls into this category. She started out as a spoken word artist in her native Jamaica, and like many before her evolved to...
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10 Feb

‘Dust & Grooves’ Book: The Secret Lives of Vinyl Hoarders

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MUSIC, SUBCULTURE/LIFESTYLE
(Someone understands :: sob ::) by April Greene | Cuepoint Magazine Questlove and other obsessive record collectors are chronicled in Eilon Paz’s "Dust & Grooves", a photography and interview project Although I’ve known Dust & Grooves founder Eilon Paz since he moved to New York from Israel in 2008, and have been a follower, fan, and contributor to his documentary project about vinyl record collecting since nearly its beginning, I don’t know everything. I hadn’t known that he only got one of his choice interviews because the 2010...
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10 Feb

The Female Engineer Behind Some of Pop’s Greatest Hits

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MUSIC, WOMEN
Emily Lazar: setting the controls for the heart of the sun. Photograph: Becky Yee   Standing out as one of the only women in a male-dominated industry, Emily Lazar is the engineer behind the sound of everyone from Björk to the Killers. by Mona Lalwani |The Guardian  The walls of The Lodge studio are lined with classic platinum records and music memorabilia. A David Bowie poster hangs next to a guitar signed by Lou Reed and a classic jukebox sits by a vintage eight-track player....
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