April 2011
3 posts
No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn © Beastie Boys
If you read my previous post “I Wonder If Heaven Got A Fat Beats?”, I was trying to make it to New York at some point during the final week it’s retail store in Manhattan was still in existence. I didn’t succeed. I then vowed to make it to New York for any of the Dilla events or the Beat* Society showcase in February. That didn’t happen, either. Folks probably...
Said The People © Dinosaur Jr.
My last post was about how the way we once came into contact and were once exposed to music changed dramatically in a 5 year span (1996-2001). This post is about one of the byproducts which prompted me to go a tangent that resulted in a 5000 word Tumblr blog that no sane person would dare even attempt to read. It’s about music in film and television and how it affects the listener and in...
Things Done Changed © Notorious B.I.G.
Back in the days, we are all exposed to music in an extremely different way than we are currently. For one thing, you could turn on the radio and be exposed to new music enough where the average fan kept a blank tape in their radios for pause tape purposes to capture those new songs. For the same token, folks with VCR’s (and cable) used to keep a videotape in the VCR for when a new video...
