Random Music News for Tuesday, December 6, 2016
On this day in 1941, Canada declared war on Finland. (It’s complicated; we followed the UK and Finland was at
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Hip-hop
Time to Face Facts: Rock’n’Roll is Old (But Not Dead Yet)
In his book Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock, author James Miller ends his survey of the history
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Random Music News for Thursday, November 10, 2016
One hundred and forty-five years ago today, Henry Stanley ran into lost African explorer Dr. David Livingston near Lake Tanganyika,
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Random Music News for Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Welcome to the day after election day in the US. Only three years and 364 days until the next one–if
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If You’re Going to Get Ink of a Hip Hop Artist, Call This Woman
Meet Iva Chavez. Working as a tattoo artist in Australia, she’s created some amazing work for people who are looking
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Hip Hop Gets Blamed for Donald Trump’s “Locker Room Talk”
Hip hop has been blamed for many things–we don’t need to pick at those scabs again, right?–but this is a
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Watch This Mom React to Hearing Hip Hop for the First Time
“It’s okay, Mommy. Go have another glass of chardonnay while me and Joey go listen to some NWA in the
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Teaching Science Through the Use of Rap Battles
I come from a long, long line of teachers, all of whom really cared deeply about their students. Still, none
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New NWA Biography Entertaining and Accurate Account of Rap Group’s Influence
Last year Straight Outta Compton was met with huge success. Even just the hype was massive. People were changing their
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Hip Hop and Dance Dominate Streaming Era. But Why?
For a great read about how the relationship with technology differs with rock music and hip hop and dance, you
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Random Music News for Tuesday, August 16, 2016
You don’t think that Trump is actually thinking of quitting, do you? If this US election cycle wasn’t weird enough…
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