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The Top 12 Cars in Hip Hop

December 13, 2016December 12, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cars, Hip-hop, Rap

Rappers love their cars. High Nobiety reports on the analysis of 62,000 songs designed to find out which cars (and SUVs)

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Random Music News for Tuesday, December 6, 2016

December 6, 2016December 6, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beyonce, Cassettes, Classical Music, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Hip-hop, Iggy Pop, K-Pop, Mixtapes, Morrissey, Music sales, Prince, Putin, Radio Caroline, Rock Opera, TIME, Trump, Vinyl

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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Music History 

Time to Face Facts: Rock’n’Roll is Old (But Not Dead Yet)

November 21, 2016November 20, 2016 Alan Cross 3 Comments Hip-hop, Jazz, Rock

In his book Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock, author James Miller ends his survey of the history

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Music News 

Random Music News for Thursday, November 10, 2016

November 10, 2016November 10, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments David Bowie, Facebook, Genesis, Glastonbury, Hall of Fame, Hamilton, Hip-hop, Prince Harry, Sony, Streaming, Universal, Vinyl

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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Music News 

Random Music News for Wednesday, November 9, 2016

November 9, 2016November 9, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Architectural Digest, Hip-hop, James Comey, Jonathan Mann, Led Zeppelin, Motley Crue, National Music Centre, Raskins

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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Cool! 

If You’re Going to Get Ink of a Hip Hop Artist, Call This Woman

November 4, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Hip-hop, Iva Chavez, Pencil Drawings, Tattoos

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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Music News 

Hip Hop Gets Blamed for Donald Trump’s “Locker Room Talk”

October 12, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beyonce, Donald Trump, Hip-hop

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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WTF? 

Watch This Mom React to Hearing Hip Hop for the First Time

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016 Alan Cross 2 Comments Hip-hop

“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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Cool! 

Teaching Science Through the Use of Rap Battles

September 18, 2016September 19, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Einstein, Hip-hop, Science, Teaching

I come from a long, long line of teachers, all of whom really cared deeply about their students. Still, none

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Music History Recommended Reading 

New NWA Biography Entertaining and Accurate Account of Rap Group’s Influence

August 29, 2016August 28, 2016 Nerhys 2 Comments Book, Gangsta Rap, Hip-hop, Music History, NWA

Last year Straight Outta Compton was met with huge success. Even just the hype was massive. People were changing their

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Music Industry 

Hip Hop and Dance Dominate Streaming Era. But Why?

August 23, 2016 Nerhys 0 Comments Dance Music, Hip-hop, Rock, Streaming

For a great read about how the relationship with technology differs with rock music and hip hop and dance, you

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