By Alicia Swiz I love A Tribe Called Quest. The first time I heard them was in a middle school gymnasium with the first feelings…
by Raizel Liebler Michael Fuhr’s Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding out K-pop (2016) is an very important addition to the growing field…
“We know the founding fathers, but the mothers are a mystery.” — Renee Elise Goldsberry, 2015 BET Cypher The Broadway juggernaut Hamilton hasn’t been immune…
by Keidra Chaney & Raizel Liebler We’ve been trying to write up a end of year music list, but we’ve discovered that we’re only collectively…
by Raizel Liebler & Keidra Chaney You really should watch Unpretty Rapstar 2, a reality competition show from Korea about aspiring women rappers. Seriously. We…
by Keidra Chaney & Raizel Liebler This is an excerpt from our essay published in The Good Life in Asia’s Digital 21st Century, an essay collection…
The impending shutdown of Beats Music wasn’t much of a surprise to most people in the know, but it seems that Pandora’s purchase of Rdio…
Beats Music will be no more at the end of this month. When it was acquired in 2013, Beats Music essentially provided the template for…
by Viv Obarski What hasn’t been said about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton? Ben Brantley of the New York Times simply states, “Yes, it is that good.”…
by Keidra Chaney I am a big fan of Faith No More. I have been a fan since 1989’s The Real Thing so that means…