Zulu Kilo (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I personally have never understood what makes a cool DJ. I love this shit. I love house. I luvved Run DMC. I thought DJ Frankie Bones was the coolest shit. But this was 12 years ago. Nobody knows who he is now. This is a long time ago. Maybe two years. Ozzy and Sabbath and Zeppelin. That [...]
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
On 20th November 1970, "The Godfather of Soul", James Brown, went into the King Records studio in Cincinnati, Ohio to record a session with his band, the James Brown Orchestra. The band included drummer Clyde Stubblefield, who had worked with Brown since the mid-60s, drumming on the hit records "Cold Sweat", "I Got the Feelin'" and "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Rapper 50 CENT has put his money behind a new documentary about slain RUN-DMC DJ JAM MASTER JAY as a tribute to the man who mentored him to become a hip-hop...
Sagacious Rambling (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I was probably around 13 or 14 when Marvin Gaye's life was ended by the very man that contributed to his existence. At the time the only song I truly appreciated was his 1981 hit Sexual Healing. Of course as an eleven year old, I didn't fully understand what the song was talking about. But I loved watching him sing it and his voice was like sweet nectar to my ears. After graduating high school and...
Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Xbox 360 "festival" will run 27 to 29 November. Microsoft has announced that it will hold another Xtival "online party weekender" between 27 and 29 November. Click here to read the full article
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Free Xbox Live Gold membership for 3 days Microsoft has announced that its Xbox festival - Xtival - will be returning in late November. Running across 27 to 29 November - Friday, Saturday, and Sunday - the festival is a celebration of gaming, movies and music that takes place on Xbox Live. For the duration of the weekend, anyone with a free Xbox Live silver account will see it temporarily upgraded...
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Seth Rogovoy, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, wrote yesterday about Bob Dylan’s Judaism. He is guest-blogging all week for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Bob Dylan’s Christmas album is that it took nearly fifty years for him to make one. There is a long-established tradition of pop [...]
WYDU (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The internet has made our world so much smaller than it really is. Before I started WYDU, I spent a lot of time on the Cocaine Blunts forums, where a bunch of like minded cats gathered to trade obscure, out of print, hip hop that most normal people would have no clue even existed. It was here that I met "Fritz The Cat" aka Ryan Somers. I don't even remember his user name on there, but we...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Major releases come out this week and next in the US with a couple dozen heavy hitters lining up for the holiday season crush. Tuesday, November 17's offerings include a range of genres and artists from 50 Cent to John Mayer, Katy Perry to Leona Lewis.
Hip Hop Spy (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
1. Public Enemy 2. N.W.A 3. Run DMC 4. Wu-Tang Clan 5. Outkast 6. Epmd 7. Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five 8. UGK 9. 36 Mafia 10. Salt n Pepa There wasnt any real news today so I thought I would put together a top 10 List for the greatest Hip Hop Groups of all time. I started from the Birth of Hip [...]
The BN Village (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Trailer :- YouTube - 2 Turntables and a Mic: The Life and Death of Jam Master Jay Legendary hip-hop DJ Jason Mizell, aka Jam Master Jay, is gunned down in his Queens studio. Security tapes of the incident mysteriously disappear, the five witnesses are uncooperative and no one is talking...until now. 2 TURNTABLES AND A MICROPHONE documents the investigation of the unsolved murder of Jam Master Jay,...
Nah Right (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I slept on this. Skratch Bastid, along with world-champion beatboxer Scratch (formerly of the Roots) & DJ Starting from Scratch, are joining forces for an event in Toronto tonight at the Revival Bar. More info here. Bonus: Kardinal Offishall - Clear! (Skratch Bastid Remix) Hit the jump for videos of “The 10 Scratch Commandments,” “Spoonie Gee/Run-DMC” as [...]
Pink Is The New Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Stephanie Pratt goes to rehab. The estate for DJ AM sues for wrongful death. Lindsay Lohan gets herself another Fashion gig. Jon Gosselin sues TLC for $5 million for alleged child labor law violations and for preventing him from working. Nicolas Cage loses 2 houses to foreclosure. Joey Lawrence and his wife are expecting their second daughter, whoa! Robbie Williams confirms [...]
CYCLING WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
yeheheheeeessss!!! Local NYC peeps need to keep an eye on the background in this one: Then there's Fu Schnickens which is a group that will be forever synonymous with the name Sean Sheffey : Then there's the Red Hot Chili Peppers of rap: Onyx - Slam Uploaded by bullback . aaand when they got together with fucking Biohazard: Not that either of them needed any help from each other since the dudes from...
Grandgood (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
link Do any memories stand out in particular? Wow it’s too many. One I can think of, we had a show. It was actually our first show outside of New York together. We did Jack The Rapper in Atlanta and on that card it was the Dogg Pound, it was Tupac, Run DMC I believe and Whodini. [...]
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