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PROPOSED EMINEM AUSSIE BAN STORY
Australia’s latter 20th-century tolerance has taken a dip toward Eminem’s plans to perform in the Pacific island nation, with a conservative member of the Australian parliament and an ecumenical family advocacy organization lobbying Read More »
Drop-in Jew-els[Distribution Deals & How They Work]
You are about to experience the knowledge the industry don’t want you to know.I entittled the article Dropin jewels because that what about to happen.Are you an artist or independent label trying to Read More »
TourmenT – atypical hip hop!
TourmenT are a French hip hop group based in Toulouse. This in itself is fairly unusual, as the hip hop scene in France is highly concentrated around two cities: Paris and Marseille. Add Read More »
MORE HARDHITTING MOBFEST UPDATE
In its five years as one of Chicagoland’s longest existing music conferences, MOBfest (the “MOB” for “Music Over Business”) struck some major blows this year for genres that were not dominated by the Read More »
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD CONCERT REVIEW
Back in the mid- to latter 1990s when Michael Franti had shed the angry-young-manliness of his Beatnigs and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy periods, his politically charged, performance art mic-controlling of the more laidback Read More »
CHICAGO CONCERT OF BOSTON, WEST COAST, MIDWESTERN ACTS
Despite lingering presumptions that Roxbury’s Edo G. was with Da Bulldogs and not the other way around, the Boston mic-controller incontrovertibly proved Friday at heavily billed concert at Bucktown’s Congress Theater that his Read More »
LOS MARIJUANO NAME-JACKING
Chicagoland’s premier chicano rap group Los Marijuanos has enjoyed a close relationship with its Los Angeles area contemporaries in the Cypress Hill camp for several years dating back to the late 1990s. Cypress Read More »
Napster: Robbery Or Promotion?
In all reality, searching “Kermit” or “Lycos MP3 Search” just does not compare to the ease of Napster. All of the files on any MP3 search engine often require the user to upload Read More »
What’s Next?
I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s next for hip hop. I rarely watch TV, and when I do, it’s usually not a music video station. However, going to a school that is Read More »
