After spitting continuous, freestyle rap for a record-shattering nine hours, 18 minutes and 22 seconds in April, it became clear that Chiddy Bang was a force not to be reckoned with.
In 1974, Rolling Stone magazine's Jon Landau reviewed an up-and-coming musician's gig for Boston's the Real Paper. The emerging songster was Bruce Springsteen of who Landau penned, "I saw rock 'n' roll's future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen."
While it's common for most record labels to launch an onslaught of highly anticipated releases during the fall, this is being taken to a new extent in 2011. From my perspective, this year has been laden with excellent new releases, and given the schedule for upcoming records in the fall, 2011 is shaping up to be a stronger year than 2010.
Andrew Schaer isn't comfortable with how young people are going about compiling their music libraries.
Since the invention of peer-to-peer file sharing, independent artists have had to find new ways to get their music out to the masses.
When tracing the history of hip-hop, one will find an overarching consensus among non-supporters that generally vilifies the genre. Between mass marketing of overindulgence and the media's hype of criminal behavior, mainstream's tunnel vision of hip-hop culture has unfairly perpetuated a bad rap for this genre.
Common Grounds may have closed its doors for good, but the former music venue's premises at 210 SW Second Ave. won't be closed for long.
Pay for music? Who does that anymore?
"Accio guitar, keys and drums!"
In recent years, there has been surging popular interest in the ability to live in the ever-fleeting "now," a practice that aims to relieve stress generated by worry of what was and potentially will be.
![Hot Water Music rose from a local force to a legendary punk juggernaut during their run together from the early 1990s until 2005. The band reformed in 2008 at a secret show in their hometown of Gainesville, and just announced plans to record their first full-length record since 2004 to be released in spring of 2012. The band shocked fans when it announced the new album would be released on Rise Records, but bassist Jason Black said the group "expect[s] that reaction from almost any decision [they] make."](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/ufa/ac336e01-9fa8-4723-a75a-d7b8a35a7d70.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=1500&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format)
Hot Water Music recently announced plans to record a new full-length record - their first since 2004.
Everything old is new again, or so the saying goes.
Tunes like "Marching Off to War" and "Helter Skelter" will escape from the confines of Common Grounds and into the humid summer night one final time this Friday.
The future of digital music is slowly taking form, and with it an unlikely group seems to be finding major advantages.
The Hippodrome State Theatre's latest production will make you want to shout. It may also incite a sudden urge to do "The Loco-Motion" and leave you singing "Do Wah Diddy Diddy."
The Wonder Years know something that a lot of bands seem to miss out on.
What if the world was even messier than you thought? A place where sailor-mouthed jackalopes roamed the desert, pants-free cowboy assailants are armed with pick-up trucks and machine guns, junked school buses are fair game artillery and the heads of the world's superheroes are wanted dead by everyone?
It may have been bumped off the air by "Country 103.7 - The Gator," but the student staff at Rock104.com is determined to keep on rocking in the cyber world.
As the countdown to Common Grounds' closing draws nearer, there are still some acts who are willing to stick with the venue until the very end.
Head downtown any night of the week, and one is guaranteed to hear a number of conversations abuzz concerning the final days of Common Grounds.
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