Concert Review: Nas and Lauryn Hill, Molson Amphitheatre
Posted by jessekg in Music on 09. Sep, 2011 | 1 Comment
Nostalgia can go either two ways — it can cause sun-drenched memories to wash over you, leaving you feeling all warm and fuzzy, or it can be a punch in the gut and cast serious doubt on what you were all nostalgic for in the first place. This summer should officially be called the nostalgia [...]
Q&A: Michael Rapaport on beefs, Nas and the controversies around Beats, Rhymes and Life
Posted by jessekg in Film, Music, Uncategorized on 28. Jul, 2011 | 1 Comment
New York actor Michael Rapaport (Boston Public, Higher Learning, among others) was 19 when A Tribe Called Quest dropped their debut album, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. They followed that groundbreaking album up with two of the most beloved (if not best) albums in hip hop, The Low End Theory and [...]
Red Hot Chili Peppers first new single: The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
Posted by jessekg in Music on 18. Jul, 2011 | 1 Comment
Anticipation has been pretty high for the first taste of the new Red Hot Chili Peppers since they went on hiatus four years ago and lost guitarist John Frusciante (again). RHCP fans all remember the last time Frusciante left the band in 1992 after being an integral part to the recording of the group’s magnum [...]
Watch It: “Love, Props and the T-Dot”
Posted by Jef in Canada, Music on 04. Jul, 2011 | 1 Comment
The CBC’s Canadian hip-hop documentary, Love, Props and the T-Dot, aired yesterday, wrapping up all the hip-hop coverage they had been doing earlier this year with the Hip-Hop Summit. It was a busy weekend, so just in case you were otherwise occupied with Pride, or your leftover Canada Day firecrackers, or were busy getting your [...]
Q&A: Vijay Iyer on jazz, privileged prodigies, and “Indian-American”
Posted by Anupa in Ethnic Aisle, Interviews, Music, Race on 27. Jun, 2011 | 4 Comments
Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer is a Yale mathematics graduate who also holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Technology and the Arts. This might seem slightly incongruous until you read the title of his 1998 dissertation, according to Wikipedia: Macrostructures of Sound: Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics. There’s a real cerebral element [...]
