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Rapper's Delight: The Art Of The Mixtape
posted: June 18, 2011
Mixtapes have been around since the dawn of hip hop itself. They weren’t called mixtapes in the ’70s, of course, they were “party tapes””and they were popular before rap records even existed. The definition of…
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Sound And Vision: Top 40 Show Tunes — Seven Music Icons Whose Songs Should Rock Broadway
posted: June 17, 2011
Though I’ll probably never be a huge fan of the Broadway musical, occasionally, they rock. Such has been the case for Great White Way song-and-dance productions based on the music of the Who, Bee Gees,…
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Your Country's Right Here: Craig Campbell Talks "Throwdown" With Willie Nelson
posted: June 16, 2011
Watching the joy Craig Campbell‘s music brings to audiences when he performs songs from his debut album as part of a current major country tour, it’s difficult to reconcile that he almost gave up music before he…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: The Fleshtones Are Too Wired To Retire
posted: June 15, 2011
These days, every other band with a fuzzbox and a copy of Nuggets can cop the garage-band tag; at this point, there’s plenty of precedent established for assimilating the spartan-but-searing sounds of ’60s garage rockers…
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Q&A With Sondre Lerche
posted: June 14, 2011
Sixties pop, melodic indie rock, contemporary jazz, Brazilian psych-folk, singer-songwriter”these labels don’t quite do justice to the ground that Norwegian musician Sondre Lerche has covered in his ten-year career. Which is why it’s amazing that,…
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Soundcheck: Rap On Politics: A Slippery Slope
posted: June 14, 2011
Last week, fans got a double dose of doozies from Lupe Fiasco who enjoyed soaring record sales after his MTV Movie Awards appearance then followed up the success with some pretty serious statements. He told…
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