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Rap Beef is the New WWE Wrestling

    Everyone loves a good rap beef now and then. It’s another way to get some drama into your life when the 2016 election season is lacking. I feel like in the past few months I’ve been living in some alternate reality, because the recent drama in the hip-hop community has been surreal to

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Racism & Homophobia in Disco Criticism

It took me 20 years to get into Disco. This lackadaisical process wasn’t the result of a passive listening lifestyle or growing up in a non-musical family (I consider myself a pretty serious consumer of music / my mother is a cellist, my father is a Post-Punk aficionado, my brother started his own record label).

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Instrument Spotlight

The following is a fictional personal anecdote about the hydraulophone. The anecdote is designed to incorporate interesting facts about hydraulophones (and bonus facts too!) and leave you with an understanding of an instrument you may have never heard of. The setting is Ontario Science Centre, Canada. The weather is warm with a slight breeze coming

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New Music Week 6

9 Dead Alive by Rodrigo y Gabriela RIYL Astor Piazzolla, Metallica, Muse The flamenco guitarist duo (arguably two of the greatest guitarists making music right now) Rodrigo y Gabriela’s third release manages to maintain its rhythmic and theme driven song writing style while avoiding rehash of previous albums. They bring great energy and beauty with each

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Lou Reed's Dead, Macauley Culkin isn't

There’s nothing that says Holiday Spirit like Macauley Culkin, 33. For all y’all that haven’t heard, the former child star and current Brooklyn degenerate has formed the Pizza Underground, a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band (big ups to Schuyler for the tip). They got songs like “I’m Beginning to Eat the Slice,” “All the Pizza

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