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Image from discogs.com Hip-Hop started with the idea of remixing or using our parents’ vinyl records and modernize their sound. The breakbeats and witty wordplay over the sound allowed the samples to live on, becoming an essential aspect of the genre as a whole. Many few artists have been samples throughout Hip-Hop’s growth over the […]
Image from open.spotify.com An artist by the name of Nujabes has been percolating throughout the internet for the past few years. From the time I was an emerging adolescent to where music is taking place now, his name is almost unconsciously omnipresent. Around 2012, when I became an avid listener of his sound, his singles […]
Image from billboard.com This post had been published on UIC Radio On September 18, 2018, Congress unanimously passed the Music Modernization Act of 2018, S.2334. The bill received immense support from musicians, their affiliated labels, and from government agencies representing the platforms themselves. In essence, the Act guarantees that musicians will be rightfully paid for their […]
Image from genius.com The same story has been told, is being told, and will be told for every life born and decomposed. Every boy growing into a man is the conventional story of growth and perseverance. The glorious moments will exalt the character, but those moments are impossible without the sheath of sorrow. In between […]
Image from playthishiphop.com Hearing those classic chords for the first time as a young, petulant kid was something I’ll never forget. Between 2005-2006, YouTube was still in its infancy and music was held under the responsibility of television/radio media and illegal downloads. In a dark-lit room right before the strike of sunrise, the glow of […]
Image from outrightgeekery.com [This post contains spoilers] “You’re Gonna Carry That Weight,” is the final title card of the show before it ends abruptly into its coda. Once the camera zooms out of the fallen body of Spike and jolts up in the blue ether, a different yet satisfying tune plays to prolong the feeling. […]
Image from Billy Toulson (Facebook) Written by Ljubinko Zivkovic Back in 2008 while still in Delaware, Billy Toulson wanted to be a musical Sun Brother, hence the adopted nom de plume. Not much can be found or heard from that strictly acoustic period of Toulson’s music, but then he obviously had a change of heart […]
Image from ThisisBlueprint.com This post was published on nerdyscoop.com In December of 2017, I went to go see Neo-Soul/R&B artist FKJ at the Metro in Chicago. After waiting for nearly an hour to see an artist I knew no more than a handful of songs, it was unexpectedly one of my favorite shows to date. […]
Image from ragofoot.bandcamp.com In the description of his only project in his Bandcamp page so far, he stated that his album, Another Man On A Zig Zag Mission, was recorded and constructed on multiple musical recorders, instruments, computers, on various tours, bathrooms, basements, and subway trains. The young architect seems to never sleep. Much of […]
Image uploaded on amazon.com (Gracie & the Valley – Eye Spy) Written by Ljubinko Zivkovic As the Autumn season sets in and almost everybody tied to the music industry starts shoveling out their ‘product’ for the holiday season, the pile of singles and single tracks start making an onslaught on your ears and other senses. […]
