Marvin Gaye’s album, What’s Going On, has been called one of the great soul music records of all time. The album was showcased at a 1972 concert at the Kennedy Center in Marvin’s hometown of Washington DC. 40 years later, the Kennedy Center commemorated that live performance, and asked select musicians to re-imagine “What’s Going On” [...]
The New York University student was accused of disorderly conduct, but the video showed him breaking no laws. In a twist, the student had actually been working on a project aimed at portraying police in a better light.
A look at the Brooklyn Brainery.
Apple’s AirPlay could become a threat to cable giants, since it gives lets users port a broad range of content to their televisions. But apparently that’s news to Time Warner’s chief exec. The NY Times’ Bits blog reports that Glenn A. Britt said in a group interview that there’s no simple way to get web [...]
Urban Dictionary defines “supercut” thusly:
A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliché from film and TV.
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This takes “ladies free before 10″ social engineering to a whole new, and creepy, level. And by this, we mean a new app that dozens of San Francisco bars will cooperate with by placing facial recognition cameras inside their establishments. Here’s the lowdown from SF Weekly, which points out that this follows a similarly alarming [...]
It’s hard to imagine two parts of American culture– mixed martial arts and Christianity– that on the surface are more incompatible. Jesus is known for telling his followers to turn the other cheek. MMA fighters are known for turning their opponents’ cheeks for them, with their fists, elbows, and knees. If there’s one existential truth it’s this: humans, especially American humans, are hideously complex. Yet the existence of ministries that embrace MMA still surprises.
The New York based comedy group Olde English, facing a parting of ways, decided to go out with a bang on one last big project together. Taking a cue from the surrealist technique known as “the exquisite corpse”, the challenge for the troupe was for each member to write 15 pages of a feature, knowing only what the previous five pages of the script were.
The latest podcast from our friends at State of the Re:Union begins their “audio obituary” series.
With just a ten millimeter wrench and a screwdriver, Brian Simmons has built and sold more than 100 motorized bicycles in Oakland, CA, under the label Rebelbikes. The company has been around for three years. The two-man shop based out of the comfort of his living room.
Simmons’ two wheeled creations are motorized pedal assisted bicycles that can go up to 35 mph. His ultimate goal is to see bicycles replace cars, and while he knows it’s a stretch, he is taking his dream on one bike at a time.
Yesterday there was a bit of a hubbub about a Forbes article that made HBO co-president Eric Kessler seem woefully out of touch with the Internet age. Turns out that the Forbes article was a distortion– shame on you, Forbes– and that the reality on the ground (in the cloud?) is more complicated than Forbes’ Erik Kain would link-bait us to believe.
A recent study in Britain shows that women are twice as likely to consult Google for a health diagnosis than a real doctor. In addition, one in four women misdiagnoses themselves based on what they find on the internet, according to Week Magazine.
Is Isaiah Seret [VIMEO] the best music video director working today? Our own Noah Nelson [Hey, that's me!] thinks so… and his argument got backed up last weekend when his video for Raphael Saadiq’s ‘Good Man’ won Best Narrative Video at the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Music Video Festival.
Earlier this morning, with just seven hours left on the clock, the campaign for Republique reached its half-million dollar goal.
The stunning “Peace or Violence” for the artist Stromae took home the Best Non-Narrative Award at the Second Annual LAMVF. Directed by Raf Reyntjens & Joris Rabijns, this video strings together a series of vignettes on the song’s theme.
“Be data driven, not data drowning,” is the slogan for Kickboard for Teachers — an educational software, designed to help teachers and administrators collect data regarding their students’ academic and behavioral performance in one place.
2012 feels like it is the year that indie games are finally having their moment. Indie Game: The Movie was a Sundance smash, game funding has exploded on Kickstarter, and indie game developer Jonathan Blow was the subject of an in-depth profile in the most recent issue of The Atlantic. Stephanie Barish, the CEO of IndieCade, the international festival of independent games, sees things a little differently.
Can we turn a Kickstarter campaign into an event?
We’ve been following the crowdfunding campaign for Camoflaj’s Repubique from the beginning, and now Ryan Payton and company are in the last stretch.
Every few years someone becomes the “it producer” for hip-hop and r&b. The Neptunes, Timbaland, Swizz Beats, Scott Storch, Lil Jon, all of these guys have had their time in the sun, as everyone went to them for hits. Diplo might be next in line.
Mos Def and Dead Prez come together to do a song that pays tribute to Trayvon Martin. We had a great convo with M1 the other day about this.. He reminded us that Florida is also home to the Uhuru Movement, an organization that helped shape and mold him, and that the spirit of resistance in the [...]
Jai Paul, the mysterious British crooner, had the internet going H.A.M. over his debut single released in 2010. But after a year of no new music, plus another year of hype (and I’m guessing, a fat check) from being sampled by two of pop music’s most famous stars, word was that Jai was just a flash [...]
Chris Brown’s latest series of vlog-style music videos entitled Real Hip Hop Sh*t shows the pop star trying his hand at rapping.There has been a lot of argument among hip hop heads over whether he should stick to singing. But I see more positives to Chris Brown entering into the rap world than negatives: 1. [...]
If the apocalypse comes this year, at least I can cross this off of my “things I hoped would happened but never imagined it actually would” list: two of my favorite artists within the last ten years come together after a series of classic collaborations to create a nearly perfect album. Quantic and Alice Russell’s [...]
Public Enemy is arguably the greatest rap group of all time. Their impact on the game goes beyond nearly every rap group’s legacy—except for maybe N.W.A. They’ve inspired nearly every rapper that calls him or herself socially ”conscious”; and they continue to make good music and tour the world. Now a new group of youngsters [...]
From an ATL crooner back from a six-year hiatus to a UK remix king on his third full length album, AllDayPlay.fm’s DJ Mike Biggz presents a few new tunes to jam to this week. Sleepy Brown – We Run The Night Sleepy Brown returns with an amazing new joint “We Run The Night”, a mid tempo soul [...]
Last month, a controversial video was posted on the website XXL with Oakland rapper Too $hort offering some questionable (and not to mention illegal) advise to young boys once they “start feeling a certain way about girls.”
Believe it or not, there was a time in hip hop where R&B singing was frowned upon. It was a sign that you were trying to appeal to a wider, more commercial (non-”street”) audience and go pop. Most hip-hop songs back in the day had either rap hooks, scratched hooks, or in some cases, no [...]
Within the last three years we’ve seen a slew of “hip-house” records pop up—and blow up—as club music became prevalent on pop-urban radio. Artists like LMFAO, Flo-Rida, and Pitbull have been dominating the charts by making modern day hip-house (sub-par as some of it is, in my opinion). Even Black Eyed Peas and Kid Cudi [...]
