Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Donta Cordell Edwards, the local rap music producer whose killing remains unsolved, was identified in the Dayton Daily News' two-day series on criminal street gangs as the person who recorded the beats and music of Dope Boy Mafia.
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Writing in The Times (London), cultural critic Clive Davis offers a great introduction to the brouhaha over John McWhorter's new book All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America . As Davis tells it, McWhorter's beef isn't with the misogyny, violent imagery, and bling so essential to today's hip-hop, it's with the lefty politics of "conscious" rap and the liberal academics that have embraced...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Santogold and Diplo , together on a mixtape? It's enough to make your Day Glo all on its own. She, still rising the release of her self-titled LP , and he, making the beats that make the bodies rock, have teamed up for Top Ranking , a 35-track mixtape out now from Diplo's label Mad Decent . It's a monster of a thing, sporting a ton of exclusive material from Santi White alongside tracks and remixes...
TINSEL GURUS (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Like in her song, SO WAKE UP, SO WAKE UP. She keeps repeating it by herself. But she is in denial. We kinda like her in heroes, being the cheerleader and all. THEN WHY SPOIL IT BY SINGING A SONG CALL WAKE UP CALL. And i can't help noticing that the beats to this song, sounded like Paris Hilton's Stars Are Blind. I mean, they were best Friends before, weren't they. Here's THE WAKR UP CALL vs STARS ARE...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... On the Road with the Beats . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Photo: Getty Images In an interview with MTV.com today, fallen-off super-producer Timbaland claims that he alone will do all the beats on Jay-Z's next record. "He wants me to do the whole thing," says Tim. "'Big Pimpin'' is an international hit, so we wanna do 10 of those. Meaning, some of the songs gonna sound like M.I.A. would rap on some of the beats. You gonna be like, 'Whoa!' But it's Jay on...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Associated Press Twelve editors will lead coverage by the teams of reporters newly assigned to the beats, which are financial markets; economy; retailing; technology; media, entertainment, leisure and lodging; health care; autos; airlines; energy; manufacturing; personal finance; and real estate.
Gear Live (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Add To Your Site: The Beats by Dre headphones were originally announced at CES 2008 , where we were able to get our first experience at listening to the headset . As we noted in our video back then, we were thoroughly impressed. The sound was killer, with fantastic bass. The headphones were well thought out, shipping with audio cables that fit into the original iPhone, and even including a cable that...
Posse on Broadway (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Are The Beats Good Enough For Nas To Get His Point Across?
videogamesblogger.com: (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Samba De Amigo is the Dreamcast classic that helped to create the now-popular rhythm music genre known as the rhythm/music genre. As you may have heard, a new version has been created exclusively for the Wii. This vibrant and addictive new game lets players shake to the beats of a samba-infused soundtrack comprised of popular [...]
Nickleanddimes (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Ten-Eight versus Pocket Kings. In several years of playing online poker not too many “beats” stand out. Granted before the UIGEA knocked a great deal of my online bankroll off-line, I would be found playing six tables of cash and tournament games at any given time so the beats went through my system like an undercooked burger on McDonald’s. Quick and a little too easy. Was the above hand my shot to...
JoshSpear.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
If you were ever wondering what gifted individual produced the beats behind those black-screen, white-text bumps on Adult Swim the answer is: a lot of people. Every music geek favorite from Madlib to Squarepusher has taken a turn, but there’s one cat you may have never heard of. Flying Lotus is an L.A.-based producer that [...]
Chromewaves (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Photo by Frank Yang Though celebrating its fifth anniversary this year and surely the longest running program of Harbourfront Centre's World Routes Summer festival series, I'd never been to any of the Beats, Breaks & Culture shows before. Not the biggest fan of beats or breaks, and the jury is still out on this whole "culture" thing. But as I mentioned a couple weeks back , Ladytron's latest Velocifero...
Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The red headed stepchild of the Canuck turntable scene lays down the beats tonight at HiFi it’s the new bar on top of the American Apparel store in Osborne Village. Almost every Jeremiah season 2 dvd that it sells. Hard liners in Japan s War Cabinet. GaAs supplier to major defense and space contractors. [...]
Right Celebrity (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Dita Von Teese In Maxim Dita Von Tesse looks absolutely gorgeous in this month’s issue of Maxim, Germany. She takes amazing photos, and is always super sexy, but this cover is by far one of my favorites. It sure beats the pants off of Shannon Elizabeth’s US cover! I’ll take Dita any day! There is just [...]
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rigobacardi | 06/19/2008
You know Marla Maples as Donald Trump’s ex-wife. And that’s pretty much all she’s famous for. You know what . . . I think I’d be cool with that. Certainly beats the fame I achieved for growing last season’s biggest squash. Made the local news. I've got to say, Miss Marla is looking pretty good here.
