Monday, March 08, 2004
Venezuela the next Haiti? | The for-profit Blog Wars jump off | Rocafella takes over the world | David Crosby still gully...
Haiti's still a mess but is Venezuela next?: Maria Elena Salinas argues that Oil-rich Venezuela could end up like Haiti or maybe Cuba. (Associated Press | Pasadena Star News)
And now he's laughing about it. I've said it before, dude should be in jail on charges of high treason: Journalist Novak Poking Fun at CIA Leak. (Asscoiated Press via Guardian UK)
Life of Lies: the real story behind Martha's demise (at least according to the NY Post).
Related:
- There's a Reason Your Mother Told You Not to Lie. (New York Times)
Blog Battle: Jason McCabe Calacanis, the erstwhile Silicon Alley Reporter publisher, is taking on Gawker Media's Nick Denton in the world of for-profit blogging. (New York)
"Get Fresh with the Roc" the BET infomercial, I mean TV special, on Hov, Dame Dash and kareem "Biggs" Burke's Rocafella empire breaks down the Harlem-BK connect's plans for world domination starting with music, film, fashion and liquor. If I'd watched this back in November, right around the time Hov dropped his (allegedly) last album, I would have said, "yeah right." But, with two of the current top 3 albums on the album chart, I wouldn't put anything past these brothers now. Don't hate Dame & co., hate the game.
Related:
- C. Ronson: hip hop meets downtown hipster style with Charlotte Ronson's Rocawear-sponsored clothing line.
- The Woodsman: Dash/Rocafella films' attempt to break out of the "hood flick" ghetto starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick (Dame: c'mon, dunnie, get your own website up for this jawn).
Not a rapper arrested in drugs/gun bust shocker: CSNY's David Crosby arrested on marijuana, gun charges. (USA Today)
The promo spots are kind of semi-coonery to me with their ebonics-spittin', hip hop mechanic Barbie and Ken figures but the actual show (based on the episode I saw with Wyatt Glenn and the amazing transformation of his busted-ass 1988 Daihatsu Hi-Jet van) is really kind of cool: MTV's Pimp My Ride.
Related:
- Queer Eye for the Straight 8. (New York Times)
Speaking of whips, can Mitsubishi break disco-punk? Radio 4's two year old punk-funk anthem "Dance to the Underground" soundtracks the ad for the car manufacturer's current promo campaign. Will they follow in Dirty Vegas's one-hit wonder foosteps?
Buzz seems kind of muted (I think that's what happens when you wait 15 months) but, based on the opening episode, I think this season of The Sopranos is gonna be a lot better than the last one.
Can you stand another article on The Black Album remix phenomenon?: Silver, Brown, Gray: Jay-Z Every Which Way. (New York Times)
Man, I never thought of it before but Stylus magazine's blog The Turntable astutely observes that Cee-Lo's "I'll Be Around" is basically Lil Kim's "The Jumpoff" on 33 (young folks: that's a reference to the old school albums=33 rpm, singles=45rpm paradigm, ask your parents). (mp3 links courtesy: Hiphopsite.com)
Image courtesy: Allmusic.com
Zero 7's follow-up to their excellent debut album Simple Things album, entitled When It Falls, hit stores last week but I haven't picked it up yet.
Related:
- Listen to Zero 7's Sam & Henry being interviewed and spinning tracks from the album on last week's edition of the "Gilles Peterson Worldwide" BBC Radio 1 show by clicking here (archive readers: this only applies from March 8-10).
And finally...
Blog alert: looks like Metalface of the excellent 10 Reasons Why Hip-Hop is Dead blog is gearing up for a switch over to funkdigital.com.
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And now he's laughing about it. I've said it before, dude should be in jail on charges of high treason: Journalist Novak Poking Fun at CIA Leak. (Asscoiated Press via Guardian UK)
Life of Lies: the real story behind Martha's demise (at least according to the NY Post).
Related:
- There's a Reason Your Mother Told You Not to Lie. (New York Times)
Blog Battle: Jason McCabe Calacanis, the erstwhile Silicon Alley Reporter publisher, is taking on Gawker Media's Nick Denton in the world of for-profit blogging. (New York)
"Get Fresh with the Roc" the BET infomercial, I mean TV special, on Hov, Dame Dash and kareem "Biggs" Burke's Rocafella empire breaks down the Harlem-BK connect's plans for world domination starting with music, film, fashion and liquor. If I'd watched this back in November, right around the time Hov dropped his (allegedly) last album, I would have said, "yeah right." But, with two of the current top 3 albums on the album chart, I wouldn't put anything past these brothers now. Don't hate Dame & co., hate the game.
Related:
- C. Ronson: hip hop meets downtown hipster style with Charlotte Ronson's Rocawear-sponsored clothing line.
- The Woodsman: Dash/Rocafella films' attempt to break out of the "hood flick" ghetto starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick (Dame: c'mon, dunnie, get your own website up for this jawn).
Not a rapper arrested in drugs/gun bust shocker: CSNY's David Crosby arrested on marijuana, gun charges. (USA Today)
The promo spots are kind of semi-coonery to me with their ebonics-spittin', hip hop mechanic Barbie and Ken figures but the actual show (based on the episode I saw with Wyatt Glenn and the amazing transformation of his busted-ass 1988 Daihatsu Hi-Jet van) is really kind of cool: MTV's Pimp My Ride.
Related:
- Queer Eye for the Straight 8. (New York Times)
Speaking of whips, can Mitsubishi break disco-punk? Radio 4's two year old punk-funk anthem "Dance to the Underground" soundtracks the ad for the car manufacturer's current promo campaign. Will they follow in Dirty Vegas's one-hit wonder foosteps?
Buzz seems kind of muted (I think that's what happens when you wait 15 months) but, based on the opening episode, I think this season of The Sopranos is gonna be a lot better than the last one.
Can you stand another article on The Black Album remix phenomenon?: Silver, Brown, Gray: Jay-Z Every Which Way. (New York Times)
Man, I never thought of it before but Stylus magazine's blog The Turntable astutely observes that Cee-Lo's "I'll Be Around" is basically Lil Kim's "The Jumpoff" on 33 (young folks: that's a reference to the old school albums=33 rpm, singles=45rpm paradigm, ask your parents). (mp3 links courtesy: Hiphopsite.com)
Image courtesy: Allmusic.com
Zero 7's follow-up to their excellent debut album Simple Things album, entitled When It Falls, hit stores last week but I haven't picked it up yet.
Related:
- Listen to Zero 7's Sam & Henry being interviewed and spinning tracks from the album on last week's edition of the "Gilles Peterson Worldwide" BBC Radio 1 show by clicking here (archive readers: this only applies from March 8-10).
And finally...
Blog alert: looks like Metalface of the excellent 10 Reasons Why Hip-Hop is Dead blog is gearing up for a switch over to funkdigital.com.
