Graded on a Curve: John Cage Meets Sun Ra
John Cage and Sun Ra are two of the most important figures in the music of the last hundred years.
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John Cage and Sun Ra are two of the most important figures in the music of the last hundred years.
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The late Ellie Greenwich's well-deserved fame derives primarily from her activities a songwriter, specifically as one half of the behemoth Brill Building duo Greenwich-Barry, a pair that penned some of the most brilliant and enduring tunes in the rich history of the '60s Girl-Group sound.
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After the cynical misfire of 1991's Twenty 1 and stillbirth of its intended followup, the lost and lamented Stone of Sisyphus , Chicago dove full-bore into the casinos-and-state-fairs circuit, and though they still pay lip service to the bona fide creativity that bought their homes and pays their alimonies, it evaporated long ago.
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As I look out to the view beyond my window whilst writing this, the sun is filtering through the sharp, clear air and bathing the city in a comforting light as evening settles in.
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Sound City Studios camouflaged itself amidst a row of warehouses in the San Fernando Valley.
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Choosing the ten best songs by one of Brooklyn's most beloved children, the Notorious B.I.G., is essentially a fool's errand.
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The show itself will take place in Austin on March 14th during SXSW, and will feature performances from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, as well as twenty one pilots, who scored a nomination for the "Breaking Woodie" award.
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This one sentence disclaimer serves as the entire description on the bandcamp page for Sitting Music , the latest album from charismatic Toronto emcee Abdominal.
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After teaming up at last weekend's Grammy Awards , rumour has it that Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z will take their newly-formed tag team on tour.
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Jonathan Rimmer investigates how battle rap has become a movement in this country and how Don't Flop has changed the mainstream viewers' mindset.
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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On December 21st, come together and sing John Lennon's "Imagine" at the very moment Yoko Ono's new video IMAGINE PEACE lights up sixteen Times Square billboards at 11:57pm.
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Rapture & Verse flies down the chimney, makes a grab for the mince pies and stuffs stockings with introductory titbits and tales of Cannibal Ox reuniting, Das Racist parting ways, Lil Wayne considering retirement, Cash Money Records breaking the 500 million song sales mark, Dr Dre officially being very rich indeed, and DJ Nu-Mark unveiling one of the greatest looking USB plug-ins of all time.
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Billy Corgan had a night off from the latest Smashing Pumpkins tour and a night out with The Blue Meanie.
Read MoreElectronic dance culture was established around the idea of artistic collaborations.
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Last week, the Quietus temporarily relocated to Tilburg, in the Netherlands for this year's edition of the Incubate festival.
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Welcome to Diamonds & Wood, a new hip-hop column by Andrew Nosnitsky.
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Over the weekend, XLR8R made a quick trip to Vancouver to check out the 2012 edition of the New Forms Festival.
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You may also know it as "lyrical ass lyricism," "rappity rapping," and "that boring stuff between all the adlibs."
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The Australian tag-team Bombaclat is back with a brand new live mix using tons of their bootlegs and edits.
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The song of the summer isn't Carley Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" or Maroon Five's dated "Payphone" and it's certainly not Katy Perry's "Wide Awake."
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ONE Direction and The Wanted are unlikely to ever battle it out in a big tag-team wrestling match.
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We here at Rapture & Verse love a good selling point and cut-above gimmicks.
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When Kanye and Jay-Z - friends, collaborators and contenders for the throne of the kingdom of hip-hop - announced that they would be taking their 2011 collaboration on tour, perhaps the best that fans could expect was a recreation of that album's brazen, accomplished, glossy production.
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At last night's gala benefit for The Moth, a non-profit dedicated to the art of storytelling, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels shared a few memories of Adam "MCA" Yauch with The Huffington Post. In the early 80s, McDaniels' group, Run-D.M.C., and Yauch's group, the Beastie Boys, were label-mates on Def Jam Records -- and tag-team partners locked in combat with music's status quo.
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Growing up in the Tri-State area, it was easy to think I was in the center of the world.
Read MoreAfter over three decades as one half of Sonic Youth's estimable guitar tag-team, Lee Ranaldo finally delivers a traditional song-based solo album.
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On the surface, it seems like Rolling Stone spent six paragraphs and approximately 800 words too many explaining Limp Bizkit's recent Cash Money signing.
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JY, how does it feel to be a repeat offender on the show and HuffPo?
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Sometimes it's tough to get excited about new musical releases from Eric Clapton.
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Well here we are, in the brave new world of 2012.
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New Orleans-born crooner Luke James belts out high notes beyond compare.
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Haines and I have met in a café in Camden Town. A highly literate creative with idiosyncratic interests, Haines has penned lyrics alighting on esoteric subjects such as the drowned Victorian siblings The Deverell Twins, and beret-wearing 1970s vocal act The Rubettes.
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Rapper-producer tag-team Action Bronson and Statik Selektah return with another track off their upcoming joint album, Well Done. It's "Not Enough Words," a fitting title given the Flushing Queens' rapper's proclivity for cramming as many words as possible into his bars.
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Here's something for the Golden Era-loving hip-hop heads and turntable-enthusiasts alike.
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"With my coat and my hat/I say goodbye to all that," snarls Tom Waits on "Chicago," hopping a train rhythm of horns, harmonica, banjo and electric guitars.
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Welcome to Rapture and Verse, this month in association with the Richard and Judy book club.
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The Inaugural Metal Suckfest is almost here!!!!
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And, no Andrew Ridgely, I didn't forget to mention Wham.
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