Last night (April 29) marked the 17th (!) annual Webby Awards, and it was quite a night for some of pop music's big names. Frank Ocean was named Person of the Year for last year's Tumblr post about his sexuality and his interaction with fans via Tumblr and Twitter. As for Artist of the Year , that went to Grimes , and there's arguably nobody better at making music feel like the Internet, all chaotically swirling and hypnotizing. The electro-pop enigma is one of Web music's biggest success stories, and she recently broke [...]
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As 2012 comes to a close, companies all along the board are publishing their lists honoring precocious stars, innovators, and successful business entrepreneurs. Forbes' released its annual "30 Under 30" list that includes hiphop and R&B aficionados, Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The youngsters featured on the Forbes' "30 Under 30" list represent "the entrepreneurial, creative and intellectual best of their generation." While there are the ubiquitous names of business billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, and pop star Lady Gaga, the list boasted a number of hiphop and electronic artists this year. On the [...]
Here's another short yet difficult year-end question for you: Who is your favorite artist of 2012? What artist had an impact on not just you, but the whole music industry? What artist deserves the award so much that it would be a crime not to offer them the title? Consequence of Sound chose Frank Ocean , while Sami Jarroush personally chose Jack White. Everyone has an opinion, so for today's Rock it Out! Blog episode, we want to know who you think is the artist of the year. Also, Sami recaps some music [...]
Welcome back to the Hype Index , our Soundbytes segment that manages to squeeze an entire week of music news into one very opinionated list. Stevie Wonder and Nicki Minaj started off September in hot water, while Madonna and Elton John reportedly hugged it out. The MTV Video Music Awards turned 28, but without Lady Gaga or Kanye West [...]
Let's set the sceptre rolling with a pithy adherence to the cult of celebrity. Who would you deem more famed: Jay-Z or Kanye West ? About which would you rather read stories of fabricated salaciousness? Would you sooner christen your offspring Shawn or Kanye? Would you care? Indeed does anyone care? To quote Mr. West, "Do anybody make real shit anymore?" Watch The Throne was arguably, to clumsily paraphrase, really quite shit in places. Fanciful inquisitions aside however, if this uniting to tour the record aforesaid ought to celebrate the coming together [...]
Here's a revelation: the music industry never sleeps. One would think the holiday season would be a time of rest. "Only Santa works these hours," your mother might have said ages ago. Not in the digital era. Not when Twitter enables artists to be their own publicist, label, and distributor. (We love you Patrick Stickles.) Consequently, yours truly spent Christmas afternoon stringing together the words "Merry eX-Mas and Suck My Dick." Sorry, Mom! Below you can find a recap of news coverage from the last two weeks. Among the major themes: Mixtapes, covers, and more money for Adele. [...]
I must start off by saying I was rather disappointed with my personal selection of my favourite albums of 2011. In my opinion I felt that this year for music went through a huge wave of different trends and hits. And those trends were both good and bad. Obviously, it is pretty much impossible for me to listen to every genre that there is out there, so I try my best to listen to everything I can.. when I can. Some of the great things that happened this year was the success of many producers and DJ's that [...]
New 'liquid smart metal' can go hard or floppy (from www.theregister.co.uk) Top boffins in Germany and China say they have developed a remarkable new type of material which can switch from being strong and hard to soft and squashy at the touch of a button. Jörg Weißmüller, materials scientist at both the Technical University [...]
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