Tag archive for ‘Music’
Video: Criticism II (Music Is Math)
Very interesting conference about (online) music journalism, Twitter, Hype Machine, music blogs and related subjects. Chris Weingarten is music critic for Rolling Stone, Revolver, Village Voice and others and is the speaker at this ’140 Characters Conference’.
Article: How Are You Listening (Part 2)
As hip hoppers (and music fanatics in general), we’ve all got headphones, and if you’re anything like me, those headphones are a part of your life. They go where you go and see what you see. They’ve been there for you through heartbreak, and they’re there when you’re on top of the world. Always there to compliment your mood, and in some cases, change it.
Article: How Are You Listening? (Part 1)
The days of Radio Raheem are over, unfortunately. Carrying around a giant D battery powered boombox everywhere you go is about as impractical as taking a desktop computer where ever you go in a suitcase. The boombox was and is an icon of hip hop, even if just in images. Regardless of the cool factor, technology and convenience caught up with the boombox and rendered it obsolete. Do we really miss it?
News: Pay for embedded videos
Dutch organisation Buma/Stemra wants to charge bloggers for using embedded videos on their blog or website. If a blogger wants to publish six embedded videos from Youtube, they have to pay 130 euro’s (189 dollar) on a yearly base.
Article: Hip Hop and sound quality
I was listening to Tanya Morgan’s Brooklynati and made the very astute observation that, this album sounds much more polished than Moonlighting. This got me thinking about the correlation between hip hop and sound quality.
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