Day: December 21, 2011

Essays, Features, Music, Personal, Polls, Work

The Radio Don’t Play the Shit I Used to Love: 2011 in Hip-Hop

People are still making rap music!  Can you imagine?  Maybe it’s not a trend after all.  Foxy grandma even noticed some beats being jacked when she was watching Glee last week.  Thank goodness for the internet, where we can keep on arguing about ‘relevance’ and ‘credibility’ until the return of cows. …

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A Thousand Flavors of Heavy: 2011 in Metal (and Beyond)

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If you get paid to write about music, you have to make top ten lists at the end of the year.  If you fail to do this Dave Marsh comes to your house and reads you Bruce Springsteen on Tour:  1968-2005 in its entirety.  So, here goes, first with my metal …