Girls! Re-defining rap genre
by Magda Rucinski Can you keep up, 2013? 2012 was the year of girl rappers. Not since the ‘90s, when Missy Elliot and Lauryn Hill ruled the old school, have hip-hop and rap scenes witnessed …
by Magda Rucinski Can you keep up, 2013? 2012 was the year of girl rappers. Not since the ‘90s, when Missy Elliot and Lauryn Hill ruled the old school, have hip-hop and rap scenes witnessed …
text: Magda Rucinski It’s not really a music genre, either, so much as it is a Tumblr-spawned meme that trickled down into the craniums of some musicians who embraced it as a sort of …
test: Michael Raine I have a confession to make. I do not find current rock and roll interesting. In fact, YouTube sensations, top-40 pop princesses, and bling-clad rap stars are far more …
text: Michael Raine “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise,” stated the English poet Thomas Gray in 1742. Though eloquent, it’s a rather ridiculous statement. Truth, even tough …
text: Michael Raine By now, anyone with an Internet connection or cable subscription has seen the recent awe-inspiring/cringe-inducing virtual resurrection of Tupac Shakur. When an eerily …
text: Michael Raine Predicting the future is a risky endeavour at best and a completely pointless one at worst. Predictions, whether they are about pop culture or the apocalypse, most would …
text: Michael Raine | photography: Brian Patterson Good new music, particularly what is generally termed “indie music,” hardly gets played on the radio. It’s an old lament, one that has been …
text: Michael Raine | photography: Brian Patterson If you’re over the age of 40, it has probably already happened to you, even if you can’t pinpoint the exact moment it started (if you are …
text: Michael Raine Borrowing, stealing, ripping-off, plagiarism, whatever euphemism or disparaging term you want to give it, there’s a long history of it in popular music. Those well-versed …
text: Michael Raine Are we living in a musical age of endless mediocrity? A time when an unlimited flow of information and access to creative tools, combined with an insatiable appetite for …