God, I am over this weather. Every time I open the door, I want to run back inside and cuddle with my computer and some nice beats. Wait, what’s that I just said? Yes, some nice crack beats, the kind I find over at SERVEmeCRACK\.
(more…)
You could say that Moses Michael Levi (formerly Jamal Michael Barrow) has been through plenty. Spending nine years in jail plus an additional two and a half on parole can really take a chunk of time out of one’s life. Before his incarceration for the involvement in a high profile shooting, ‘Shyne,’ as he is known, was on his way to becoming a prolific artist.
T Bone Burnett and Greg Kot @ Summit10 from Future of Music Coalition on Vimeo.
Check out this interesting Q&A with producer and musician T Bone Burnett as he talks with Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune about today’s digital technology and the effects it is having on music.
When creating a dorm studio, you can only go as far as your software. Without a relative mastery of your programs, creating quality recordings can be very difficult. As I mentioned last week, my recording setup is driven by a small handful of computer applications, none more important than the one I will discuss this week: POD Farm from Line 6. (more…)
At every point during a college student’s career, especially at the University of Maryland, you will most likely live in a residence hall for a semester or two. The accommodations of the halls are not always the best, which only makes it harder on a unique breed of university student: the college musician. (more…)
When Russell Simmons speaks, people listen–After all, he is one of the most successful music icons pretty much ever. Simmons created the groundbreaking hip-hop label Def Jam; started his own clothing lines, Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and American Classics; co-founded the Foundation for Ethical Understanding; he is the editor-in-chief of GlobalGrind.com, and, since May 2005, has been contributing blogger to the Huffington Post. (more…)
Kanye has teamed up with the British duo La Roux to remix their hit song “In For the Kill”. He has already made it known that he loves what the group has been doing and now he has finally worked with them. They’re also in the process of filming a music video for the remix. Check out the remix here.
Heh. The puns are never-ending. Though the next two weeks might be hell in a bucket (see last post), something about old school Jay-Z usually makes me feel better. My prescription for midterm blues: Listen to this once and go back to work. Midterms are almost over, cheer up.
This post is a little bit more about me than usual. See, I love the Dead and, more than the Dead, I love my birthday. It came to pass that when I started searching for shows in the great sea of Dead audience recordings, the first ones I checked out were shows that went down on my birthday.
(more…)
The Philadelphia-based Chiddy Bang rocked the University of Maryland last Thursday night. Chiddy working his magic on the mic alongside Xaphoon Jones doing his thing on the drums and beat machine turned the Stamp Student Union into a Thursday night hotspot. From the first song to the last they had the crowd dancing, jumping up and down, and having a blast. (more…)
