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Fans Turn To Critics
Before the boom of the Internet and the chain of netcee-promoting websites, hip-hop was enjoyed and disliked because you just weren’t feeling the beat. You didn’t have access to underground hip-hop unless you Read More »
Who’s All In The Mix?
When most think of whites in hip-hop, they think of Eminem or caucasians trying to be like blacks. I think of niether. Hip-hop is a full blown culture appealing to black, hispanic, and Read More »
Haymarket Riot
Hooking up media and clubs promotions and amusements for Boston acts Edo G., The Kreators, and Last Word, Oakland, Calif. and Hieroglyphics’ Souls of Mischief, and Chicagoland’s own Bronx and San Fernando Valley Read More »
DPZ & independent hip hop in Paris
Recently I met Gérôme, who runs his own hip hop label. I was amazed when he told me that he could introduce me to a hundred groups, from his region of the Paris Read More »
NU CONCERT REVIEW
Northwestern University once strongly considered tearing down Shalney Pavilion, an ancient, blackened glorified work and storage shed on one of the sylvan sections of the school’s Evanston, Ill. campus in Chicagoland’s Near North Read More »
MARK A’S FIRST SHOWCASE COLUMN
If you’ve got the gift of prose or shutterbugging, Louisville, KY-based and Barry Hankerson-owned urban magazine Inferno is looking for a few good writers to report on the scenes in their particular regions. Read More »
‘NIKITA BLUES’ RELEASE STORY
Working on what could be best described as a modest upwardly mobile budget, the independent African-American drama “Nikita Blues” is showing some healthy signs of breaking through Hollywood’s reconstituted Jim Crow ceiling fraught Read More »
WGCI MUSIC SEMINAR CONTROVERSY
A star-studded turnout of music industry rank and file was not enough to keep radio station brass and jocks for Saturday’s 10th annual WGCI Music Seminar in Chicago at the North Loop’s Hyatt Read More »
ASCAP-NARAS MIDWEST MUSIC BUSINESS SEMINAR
Chicagoland’s heaviest hitters in or connected with the music industry Thursday repeatedly embraced alternative marketing, alliances within and between music genres, savvy corporate diplomacy, artist development and more willingness to take risks as Read More »
