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 [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]