By Ryan Van Etten on 02/21/2011
Tom Silverman has made his entire career in the music industry. Circa the early 80s he founded Dance Music Report, the New Music Seminar (NMS) and Tommy Boy Records, now Tommy Boy Entertainment, whose roster includes hip hop staples De La Soul, Naughty by Nature, House of Pain, and more. [...]
Posted in Discussion, Interviews, Music, Music Flux | Tagged advertising, Afrika Bambaataa, album sales, albums vs. singles, arts, change, complete my album, culture, De La Soul, digital, Facebook, hip hop, history, hobbyists, innovation, iTunes, mp3 sales, music industry, music value, New Music Seminar, NMS LA 2011, Pablo Picasso, podcast, Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Records |
By Ryan Van Etten on 12/31/2010
2010′s hugest live-music media—in 10 photos and 10 videos. Includes M.I.A., Muse, DJ Shadow, Orbital, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Dirty Pretty Things, Paramore, Sharon Van Etten, Atari Teenage Riot, Sleigh Bells, Sparks The Rescue, The All-American Rejects, Die Antwoord, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Alkaline Trio. 10 photos and 10 videos.
Posted in Music, Photo Journal | Tagged 2010 year in review, 2010-2011 blizzard series, Academy Music Group, Alessio Michelini, Alkaline Trio, Arcade Fire, art punk, arts, Atari Teenage Riot, bands, best of, best of 2010, big media, Bonnaroo, Bonnaroo 2010, Coachella, Coachella 2010, cool hair, Dallas, Dance, dance music, dance pop, dance punk, dancing, Deadmau5, Die Antwoord, DJ Shadow, Dublin, Emily Haines, enter the ninja, Exit Festival, Exit Festival 2010, Fake Blood, fashion, festival, Glastonbury, Glastonbury 2010, Godiva Festival, Godiva Festival 2010, Hamburg, Hayley Williams, HD videos, hip hop, Houston, indie, live music, London, Los Angeles, M.I.A., manchester, Miami, multimedia, Muse, music photography, noise pop, NYC, O2 Arena, Orbital, Paramore, performers, performing, photojournalism, photos, pop-punk, punk, rap, rock/pop, Serbia, Sharon Van Etten, singers, Sleigh Bells, Smashing Pumpkins, Sparks The Rescue, SXSW, SXSW 2010, Texas music scene, The All-American Rejects, The Black Keys, the real shit, The xx, Tiffany Page, top 10, Tyson Ritter, UK, UMF (Ultra Music Festival), UMF 2010, usa, Vans Warped Tour, Vans Warped Tour 2010, video, videojournalism, Wembley Stadium, year in review |
By Ryan Van Etten on 05/26/2010
“You’ve just got to be open and free, because that’s the way people want to get content on the web”, says Dallas Penn. “Don’t be afraid of someone stealing your work so much, just have more work to give, and, if people are stealing it, you know what you’re onto something. You’re moving in the right direction.” continued Penn. Frank Talk summarized it in poetic terms, “If they’re stealing from you, [then] you’re on the right track.”
Posted in Discussion, Infoculture, Media/Journalism, Music, Music Flux | Tagged bandcamp, blogging, blogosphere, blogspot, circular promotion, community, content, copyright law, counterculture, culture, curating music, hip hop, internet, music bloggers, MusicBiz, net neutrality, new media, Oddisee, open, openness, personal brands, video |
By Ryan Van Etten on 03/17/2010
Freematik (Tom Freeman) is a San Francisco-based hip hop music producer. But outside of his fully-equipped studio, he is armed only with his iPhone and imagination. For months he’s been experimenting with apps that let him make beats and riffs on the go. The iPhone’s limitations forced him to improvise and he found himself feeling “more creative than he had in while.”
Posted in Apps, Interviews, iPhone Apps, Music, News, Popular, Reviews | Tagged album review, app review, Bay Area, beatmaker, beatmaking, creativity, development, DJing, flare, freematik, hip hop, idrum, imatik, interface, interview, iPad, iPhone, jasuto, mobile, mobility, music review, phat beats, production, psychedelic, scratching, technology, touchscreens |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/21/2010
These people are awesome: South African rap-ravers Die Antwoord (translation: The Answer) have dazzled the interwebs in a matter of weeks with their latest music video Enter The Ninja. A literal butterfly effect is happening here—Die Antwoord is rippling the music world with Zef flow.
Posted in Editorial, Interviews, Music, News, Reviews | Tagged art punk, arts, awesomeness, butterfly effect, Cape Town, counterculture, culture, Die Antwoord, diversity, enter the ninja, hip hop, music review, next level, rap, rave, south africa, video, zef |
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/07/2010
The film Bomb It portrays graffiti as the “biggest art movement in humankind.” With any movement there is opposition and many see graffiti or tagging as mere vandalism. Art or vandalism—where do you spray the line? “Graffiti is energy” says Bronx graffiti artist T-Kid and “it represents life” says artist Pose 2. The same can be said about dance—
Posted in Activism, Music, Photo Journal | Tagged Adelaide, arts, artwork, B-boying, ballet, Bomb It, breakdancing, breaking, brooklyn, cities, culture, Dance, dancing, EDM, Elvis Presley, energy, Flamenco, gender, graffiti, hip hop, history, hosier lane, IDM, Josephine Baker, Keith Haring, laws, Lisbon, manchester, manhattan, Melbourne, Michael Jackson, movie, NYC, Paris, people, Photo Journal, photos, seville, sheffield, spinning, spray art, stencil graffiti, Street Art, tango, urban, valencia, world |
