Two weeks ago, I reviewed a number of possible Lala replacements, and on May 31st the best music site ever shut down as promised. As part of the shut down, Apple gave everyone who had purchased 10-cent Web songs an iTunes gift card. Because Apple rounded up to the nearest $5, I got a [...]
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So last year I was talking to an old high-school friend of mine about hip-hop and he said he’d never really been able to get into it except for Outkast and the Fat Boys. So I, as a reformed non-fan of hip-hop who shares a lot of the same tastes, took it upon myself, [...] This week the Slate Culture Blog, Brow Beat, took NPR to task for its provincial music taste, which is leaning heavily on white, bearded indie rock bands. Jody Rosen wonders what happened to NPR’s supposed progressivism: NPR’s audience skews white and college-educated; so does Animal Collective’s fan-base. In matters of musical taste, everyone has [...] |
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