Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Dan Charnas: The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop

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In December 2010, an NPR Staff writer wrote, “How Hip0Hop Became a Cash Machine” for the show, All Things Considered. Thirty years ago, hip...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

Jay-Z: Decoded

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Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper and businessperson. He is one of the...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Mara Shalhoup: BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family

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Wikipedia: The Black Mafia Family (BMF), was a drug trafficking organization originally based out of Detroit, Michigan. Started by the Fleno...
Monday, December 13, 2010

"A History Of The 'Big' Business Of Hip-Hop" from NPR Fresh Air

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In 1979, producer Sylvia Robinson heard hip-hop music at a birthday party in Harlem and had a hunch that it would be commercially successful...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Doubling Back on the Fantasy from WNYC's Soundcheck by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album “Double Fantasy” heralded Lennon’s renewed interest in making music after a five-year hiatus from the publi...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Fresh Air Interview: Jay-Z 'Decoded' from NPR Podcast Fresh Air

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Long before he sold 50 million records worldwide — and before he appeared alongside Warren Buffett on the cover of Fortune magazine, accumul...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Anthologizing Rap from WNYC's Soundcheck by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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Rap music has given to pop culture some of its most compelling modern lyricists, yet for years the main resource for lyrics has been online....
Friday, November 5, 2010

Invincible from APM: The Story

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The rapper Invincible recently lobbied successfully for MTV-U to air her independent video, Ropes. The song is controversial because it deal...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Glee Jumps to the Left from WNYC's Soundcheck by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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The singing high-schoolers of Fox TV’s Glee took on one of the “best worst” musicals of all time: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Today: our ...

Stephen Sondheim from WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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Stephen Sondheim, whose career has spanned more than half a century, discusses his process of writing lyrics, his relationship with his ment...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Advertising: Find Jay-Z’s Memoir at a Bookstore, or on a Billboard from NYT > Books by By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN

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PRINT advertising by publishing houses tends to boast about books that are being bold and original, but that can seldom be said of the ads t...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Vanished Venues: Max's Kansas City from WNYC's Soundcheck by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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From the mid-1960s to the early '80s, Max's Kansas City was an artists haven that welcomed Andy Warhol, writer William S. Burroughs ...

Vocoder from PRI: The Sound of Young America

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Dave Tompkins is an acclaimed music journalist. His new book, How To Wreck A Nice Beach, is a history of the vocoder from its military appl...

Vanished Venues - Gone But Not Forgotten from WNYC's Soundcheck by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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The idea for our Vanished Venues series came from the new Max’s Kansas City book, which got me thinking about all the great old music clubs ...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

The New Yorker's Alex Ross: Brahms to Bjork from On Point with Tom Ashbrook Podcast

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Alex Ross may be the most celebrated music critic in the country. He knows people are skeptical about music criticism – like whoever said “w...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Colbert Report - August 4, 2010 - Michael Posner

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750 August 4 None Michael Posner None 6098 Source: Wikipedia . See also: Cooler Than Me (Single Mix) , Please Don't Go , 31 Minutes to ...