Tag: music

By: Brock Vierra The world of hip-hop and rap in 2023 has become a saturated market made up of some really awful music. You could call me an old soul, ...

By Keith Richards The theme was so nice, I had to do it twice.  As I alluded to in part one, the first tier of Emo Mt. Rushmore was so ...

By: Joe Cardoso By 1993 for most people when you mentioned West Coast rap one thing came to mind and that was "gangsta rap" with artists like Snoop Dogg, Dr. ...

By Keith RichardsDuring the time of the COVID-19 shelter-in-place, I found myself doing things I usually don’t. For example, I was always tagged on Facebook in those “Ten days, ten ...

By Keith Richards twitter.com/sensesfail “Emo is not a phase.  It’s a lifestyle.”  That’s the motto I’ve lived by since I was a teenager.  Emo music has defined and shaped my ...

By: Joe Cardoso The year was 2007 and at the time I was a manager at a restaurant you may have heard of called Outback Steakhouse in Bowie, Maryland. One ...

By: Joe Cardoso When the early pioneers of this thing we know and love called hip-hop started out I wonder if they ever thought it would result in a house ...

By: Steve Rogers Hip-Hop The Early Years Hip-Hop was unofficially born on August 11, 1973.  Where DJ Kool Herc and Coke La Rock hosted a "House" party in an apartment ...

By: Joe Cardoso  We celebrate hip hop this year as the amazing music genre turns the big 5-0. Throughout those 50 years, we have had hit songs and entire albums ...

By Keith RichardsBack in December 2001, an idea was born. Two men, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel) began a musical collaboration. Over the next year, ...