Posts tagged ‘Music’
Documentary to Watch: “Re:Generation”
DJ Premier conducting classical. Crystal method playing R&B. Mark Ronson composing Jazz. Pretty Lights producing country. Skrillex singing rock. The Grammys put together one killer documentary on the progression of music called The Re:Generation Music Project. Five of the most popular and influential musicians of today were teamed with several other artists outside their genre, [...]
Music Moves
I love music. It alters your state of mind. “Music. Moves. People.” I quote my favorite Jedidiah shirt: “Music affects all mankind in one way or another. It can cause tears or laughter, pain, or joy, anger or peace, hope or dispair….but most important….it MOVES.” That being said, I think that more important than what [...]
Hip Hop History & The Power of Spoken Word
Before YouTube, before Facebook and Twitter, before the internet, TV, radio, and written language there was the original theatre of the mind: spoken word. This true origin of Hip-Hop is still enjoyed and performed by many artists, notably Mos Def, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, De La Soul and Common. Anyone who follows music culture will recognize these artists as the [...]
Rethinking the Music Video
For the most part, all music videos are created equally cliché. Think about how an overwhelming amount of what is on MTV and VH1 is visually stereotypical. Hip Hop tracks will have girls & rims, country tracks will have hats & pickups. There are exceptions, but even they are reactive – driven by a filmmaker’s concept. Jakob Trollback is [...]