Check out your Valentine’s Day message from Outkast here. Outkast will win big at the Grammys tomorrow night – here’s why: Outkast’s double-CD extravaganza, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below their fifth album, the two members of Outkast (winners of three previous rap Grammys) have taken the audacious gamble of recording two completely …
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GRAMMY Preview
Although we are all still aghast about abreast (I amuse myself), the Grammys are this Sunday, February 8 on CBS. I have two previews on MSNBC.com, country music and on rap – eclectic, no? The country music preview: The vitality of what has come to be called “country music” is …
Read More »DJs Rock the Vote
Energized by the egregious RAVE Act, the electronic dance music community has become politicized. Rock the Vote is tapping into this February 5 in Los Angeles: Internationally acclaimed DJ and musician PAUL VAN DYK will headline the second annual DJs Rock the Vote show Thursday, February 5 at Avalon Hollywood …
Read More »Meat Beat Manifesto – In Dub and more
I have been a huge fan of Jack Dangers throughout his career, especially his ongoing work as Meat Beat Manifesto, and his more recent dub-and-beats partnership with Ben Stokes as Tino Corp. Jack has a welter of interesting projects coming to fruition. The new Meat Beat Manifesto album, In Dub, …
Read More »Mixman Remix Contest
All you remixers and those who would be remixers, here’s a cool incentive to get thee to the tracks: The Challenge is On, Remixers. A Contest of Skill. Show us Your Stuff! Mixman has teamed up with the Producers of “LADJ: The Movie“, Karmaloop, Remix Magazine, DJ.net and Nvidia to …
Read More »All Good
A couple of days ago we mentioned the blockbuster hippie-fest Bonnaroo Music Festival coming to Tennessee this June – there’s another camp and jam extravaganza featuring some of the same artists coming to West Virginia in May: Thursday, May 15 to Sunday, May 18, 2003 7th Annual ALL GOOD MUSIC …
Read More »Mixmaster You
So you don’t want to spend the money or go through the learning curve to master music creation software like Acid or Cool Edit, but you would still like to dabble in the fun of creating your own mix tracks and get jiggy and whatnot. Bacardi DJ Sound Studio has …
Read More »Killer Crunchie Hippie-Fest This Summer Near Nashville
Check out the serious reefer-sucking lineup for the 2003 Bonnaroo Music Festival June 13-15: three days of camping and jam band-big groove-acoustic roots-world beat-bluesy love everybody vibe headed up by the newly rechristened “The Dead.” 2003 Bonnaroo Confirmed Artists: The Dead Widespread Panic James Brown The Allman Brothers Band Ben …
Read More »A Whole Lotta Madonna
A Swedish couple has put together a vast repository of annotated Madonna pics in chronological order on their site, MadonnaShots. From baby shots in 1958, through school, first nudes, early career, and the image wanderings of the chameleon once stardom struck in the early ’80s, Madonna has never been camera-shy. …
Read More »Planet New Year 2003
A reminder about Coolworld’s Planet New Year 2003 massive electronic music New Year’s celebration in San Francisco: On Tuesday December 31, 2002, San Francisco becomes home once again, to the biggest annual NYE dance & music celebration on the West Coast. This event is going to be absolutely MASSIVE with …
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