This year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO was sure bring about the best and the worst of political conniving, idealistic speeches, moderate to major finger-pointing, and the oh-so-fun game of “Don’t Piss Off Hillary!” Don’t worry: I will say the same after the Republican National Convention as well, for in the end what’s the [...]
Type “Big Brother and the Holding Company” into Google, and you’ll find their official website, as you would for most artists and musicians. Read a little further and you’ll notice their tagline: “The official site for the band that made Janis Joplin famous.” Yeah, good point guys – but is that all you have going [...]
To preface this, I apologize for the back-to-back TI posts… but this one is worthy, I promise. So here’s the deal: TI is on house arrest for gun charges. While he’s stuck in his crib, he’s recording his new album, Paper Chase (RE: Swagger Like Us). Well apparently being stuck inside is getting to him [...]
TI is back and he is continuing his habit of sampling songs that have came out in the past year. This time he rips a lyric from MIA’s pineapple-ey Paper Planes, which is already sampling a song by The Clash. How deep does the rabbit hole go? Not too much farther; although I should mention [...]
Music’s elderly genius, Brian Wilson, has a new album on the way – That Lucky Old Sun. If that sounds like a reminiscent title, that’s because B-ri is back at “his old stomping grounds,” Capitol Records. He says this album is about capturing the mood of Southern California and LA in the fifties and sixties [...]
It is unfortunate to have to post this news, but Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore has passed away. “We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his [...]
Mr. West has always taken pride in his music videos. He is also at the forefront of fashion and technology. If you don’t believe me, check out The Kanye UniverseCity Blog. Anyway, whether you think I’m being sarcastic or not, his new video for Champion is actually pretty awesome. But maybe I’m just a sucker [...]
In case you aren’t an avid fan of Jay-Z or Oasis, this story might have skated right by you. Allow me to embellish: Earlier in the year, Jay-Z was named a headliner at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in England. Noel Gallagher – front man of Oasis – calls Jay’s booking “wrong” for Glastonbury. “I’m sorry, [...]
“Overjoyed, enraptured, entranced; are we ready? Yes! Good! In we go!” Welcome to Terrapin Sound. You may have not noticed because this is the first post, but this is a music blog. The site may look a little like a shell right now, but our writing staff – comprised of students at the University of [...]
