Apparently, it's more than just hip-hop that's dead. But you knew that. Apparently, radio's failure is hurting more than rap. But you knew that. Apparently, the two bangers and a shitload of a filler equation just isn't working anymore. But you definitely knew that. Apparently, the NYT can't get enough of grim reaping music. But you already knew that.
And in a completely un-related but way more exciting story, Jumbo Squid are reaching record levels off the coast of California, according to the LA Times. These bad boys live only two years and have yet to officially be blamed for the death of any human, but the Times does call them “flesh craving” and details a harrowing account of their verocity…as well as their ability to communicate through a series of blinking white and …
Rumors of a third Portishead album have circulated on and off years. (It's been an entire decade this their last proper album.) Last year two new tracks showed up on the trip hop pioneer's MySpace page and those rumors heated up again.
Now they're sure to be read hot after bandleader Geoff Barrow was joined by singer Beth Gibbons and guitarist Adrian Utley for two songs in a surprise appearance in Bristol last week. They performed one as yet unnamed new song and the much loved “Wandering Star.”
We knew this, or Maybe we should have known this, but as the homie Gray Kid who passed us this official documentation said, it’s “rad that it’s getting into the official record.” St. John's University Professor of Legal Writing Akilah N. Folami spoke in front of the FCC in Nashville, TN, on the destructive effects of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on the black community.
With the acquisition of seemingly every local radio station after the act’s passing, conglomerates like Clear Channel and Cumulus strangled the diversity, local support and, according to Folami, the message out of what was once deemed the “Black CNN.” Hip-hop’s current penchant for advertising products and a gangsta mentality has taken precedence over political discourse and independent thought because of obvious economic advantages towards the …
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