Hip Hop Logic: Business & Culture

The Civil Wars' Success Formula: Live Shows + Social Media + Music Placements

2012-02-16T11:00:00-05:00

Exerpt: "With every opportunity we look at all the angles and think, what can they do for us that we can't do for ourselves -- and there are things that they can do that we can't. By and large, we weigh how much we'd give up our creative control and our general control over what we do..." Full...

Dilla's Best Breaks (Audio)

2012-02-15T15:00:00-05:00

Download Here via Different Kitchen

Glassnote Records' Daniel Glass on 'Fantastic' Spotify, Monetizing the Stream

2012-02-15T13:00:00-05:00

Excerpt: From a label perspective, what's your take is on Spotify so far? I enjoy, appreciate and embrace anything that gets people to discover music. So I would say in the last 12 months, from the United States perspective, Spotify has been one of the most exciting places to discover music. The...

Audio: D'angelo Live Mixtape

2012-02-14T12:04:00-05:00

A 15-track compilation of high-quality live recordings from a recent D’Angelo concert in Sweden Download Here

Audio: A Tribe Called Dilla

2012-02-13T11:01:00-05:00

"My intentions with A Tribe Called Dilla were to focus strictly on the signature sound style of the Ummah era, which spanned throughout the second half of the nineties." Go Here To Download

Shit French Montana Says (Video)

2012-02-11T13:00:00-05:00

via @joncaramanica

Article: Why Don Cornelius Matters

2012-02-10T14:00:00-05:00

Excerpt: "The significance of Don Cornelius to American culture — and to the American culture business — is told nowhere more eloquently than in one brief exchange between Cornelius and singer James Brown, a story that Cornelius himself recalls in VH-1′s excellent 2010 documentary Soul Train: The...

Article: 7 Ways to Build Energy in a Song’s Chorus

2012-02-10T11:00:00-05:00

"If you were to trace a line that represents the energy you perceive from a song as it progresses, you’d notice that the line would generally go in a mostly-upward direction. That’s a basic songwriting principle: the energy of the end of a song should equal or exceed that of the beginning. It’s...

Video: N!%#@s In Paris by Kanye West & Jay-Z

2012-02-09T15:57:54-05:00

Free Brainfeeder Compilation

2012-02-09T15:36:30-05:00

LA's Brainfeeder Collective releases a free compilation featuring music from Thundercat, Martyn, Samiyam, and Lapalux. Download here via XLR8R