Wednesday, August 31 2011
Kanrocksas Music Fest: 5-6 August 2011 - Kansas City, KS
Kanrocksas, while no Lollapalooza, was a fine, inaugural music festival with great potential.
Wednesday, June 22 2011
Desitively Bonnaroo: Reporting from the Land of Dust and Music (Part 3)
You’re here to see your favorite indie-rock act, and you just so happen to have great representatives from other musical styles to explore as well.
Monday, February 14 2011
Rewinding the 53rd Annual Grammys
Performance-filled show often gave excellent tributes to music greats, but barely passed out any awards. This is going to be a long post!
Monday, February 7 2011
Super Bowl 2011’s Best Commercials
The Super Bowl isn’t just the biggest night of the year for football fans, it’s also TV advertising’s main event.
Friday, February 4 2011
Guessing the Grammys
Predictions on who will win what in the biggest categories, based on industry hype and a little guessing about the academy’s voters.
Thursday, February 3 2011
The Year In Music: June 2010
June 2010, the subject of our latest look at the year’s biggest events in music, was a month of successful releases and summer concerts.
Friday, October 22 2010
Potential Grammy Nominees for Song of the Year?
This is a look at likely contenders for the Song of the Year, which is a composer/songwriter’s award.
Monday, September 27 2010
Keeping It Real: Dreams, Mind-Alteration, & Misperception in Hip-Hop
Hip-hop has been engaged in an ongoing tension between fantasy and reality, art and artifice but rappers, like all good artists, sometimes have to lie in order to tell the truth.
Thursday, July 22 2010
Hip-Hop Storytellers: The Vignette
"That story is over, but my rhyme ain't done." Vignettes are important tools in hip-hop's rich and plentiful storytelling tradition.
