I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a little plug for sister site Luvsound’s new singles blog. We’re really happy with how things have gotten started. In its two weeks of operation we’ve posted a cooing analog synth bubble bath by Scott Brueznak, and just recently a new track by Minnesota electropop band NOBOT. Check them out below, and click here to subscribe to the podcast.
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NOBOT:
Via Sister Toldja - a quite excellent song by the roots featuring Wale and Chrisette Michele. How long have the roots been consistantly awesome? Pretty long time now, good job guys. And in other roots news, did you hear ?uestlove is producing the new al green album??? He is!
Sister Toldja asks “what do [women] get from Hip-Hop in 2008?” The question is an interesting one, as gender issues seem from my perspective to be all but an ignored subject in Hip Hop criticism. Toldja’s assesment unfortunately isn’t a surprising one, but probably one that needs to be said aloud more often.
I love Mos, I love Common, I love Kweli, but even these dudes say some stuff that makes me go “Huh?” Like, when a male emcee personifies another emcee as a woman to offend him. I’m at the show too, I’m in the audience, I’m buying the records. But I don’t feel welcome, I don’t feel like I am a part of what’s going on. Being a female Hip-Hop fan, especially a sista (because I think we tend to want/expect more from the brothers), I feel like I’m watching a pissing contest through a peephole. Any minute, some dude is gonna catch me and remind me that I’m not supposed to be there.
Let us know who else is writing about gender in hip hop in the comments.
Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky are making a community website for programmers. Listen to them talk about it below.
It’s a standards-compliant rap! Many more at Chuck’s youtube channel!
My friend Jon Roberts has an awesome and crazy job. He does things people ask him to do on the internet. More here.
[http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2008/02/obama]
Just stumbled across this super catchy pro-Obama track on XLR8R’s mp3 blog. It’s by Fire Magic Blood, a side-project of one of my fav musicians, Daedelus. Check it out, it’s def worth a drop in your next mix cd to friends!
(Image by Splotchy)
Ali Momeni describes and demonstrates his work in interactive media art.
The newest offering from Fallt is a free online compilation featuring music by a star studded line up of “designers moving freely between visual and audio design.” Contributions include music from Taylor Deupree, Fourcolor, Steinbruchel, and Lawrence English.
To download the entire compilation, which has a graphic component in the 160th issue of Grafik Magazine, visit the Fallt website. Grab it quick, they have a history of offering online releases only for a limited time.