Tagged: innovator

The good homie SDotBraddy is here with his first project of 2013, in Warbucks , a collaboration with fellow emcee Pouya. I was introduced to Braddy after hearing tracks leading up to his 2012  Innovation project, which brought a new, honest look at lyricists from Miami. The drill-esque knocking beats are a theme, but Braddy & Pouya utilize influences from all coasts and eras to create a unique sound on Warbucks. F eatures from Young Dazzie Dazz and Raider Klans own Denzel Curry. Stream and Download below. [...]

Braddy is continuing to prove why he is one of my favorite rising artists from the south. In promotion for his Warbuck$ project with fellow Miami based emcee Pouya, Braddy drops "IndigoB" featuring Denzel Curry, produced by Ronny J. Raider Klan x FWAY. New Miami. Warbuck$ is set to be released in early March. Grab Braddy's Innovation , if your still sleeping.

• RicoCarhuapoma - SDotBraddy & Pouya - IndigoB ft. Denzel Curry (Prod. RonnyJ)

The notion of cutting the cable cord isn't necessarily one of not wanting to watch or pay for television - it's about not wanting to pay for both cable and internet. Cable cutters, of which I consider myself one for the past five years, really just want to have their television viewing experience delivered through the web. That will never be a reality - particularly the vision of what that should be in my head - but I'm intrigued by this new start-up NimbleTV . According to Wired : [...]

SDotBraddy is a newcomer around these parts , but that's because he's only been releasing music for a couple months. Yesterday brought us the release of Braddy's debut mixtape titled Innovation.  The first release finds the 17 year old Miami emcee showcasing his raw talent, emitting an honest message in each track on he 12 track project. Definitely check out "City Drive," "Can't Trust 'Em" and "Ain't Bout It". New Miami... Download Mixtape | Free Mixtapes Powered by DatPiff.com

myworldmusicfriends.com António Zambujo – Quinto this month. Quinto Portuguese artist António Zambujo is set to release his new album Quinto this month. Quinto will be available in the United States on Tuesday, November 13, 2012. António Zambujo is revolutionizing fado wth arrangements that include clarinet and cavaquinho, although his sound is dominated by the guitar and led by the acoustic bass of Ricardo Cruz, Zambujo’s regular producer. Quinto reflects [...]

Noisey has been knocking it out of the park with their Back & Fourth series as of late, and today they linked with Action Bronson & Alchemist in definitely one of the funniest clips to date. From the moment the video begins you can tell these two are  having a great day in Cali & probably won't be taking the interview that seriously. For these two that doesn't matter, they don't need to be on point with every interview, especially with Vice/Noisey. Peep the clip below to hear when Alchemist reminisce about the first [...]

Perhaps Apple's greatest magic trick, if you will, is that for the past decade they've made culture-altering innovation seems positively easy. That innovation is actually really difficult by large companies should be the main takeaway from Kurt Eichenwald's deep-dive into the Steve Ballmer-era at Microsoft, writes Matt Yglesias at Slate . For example, Eichenwald notes: Years passed. Finally, on November 14, 2006, Microsoft introduced its own music player, called Zune. Fifty-four days later, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, which combined a mobile phone, a music player, Internet capability, a [...]

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Collaboration is the mother of invention and necessity these days. As they say, there is no "I" in the word 'teamwork'. And that spirit seems to have pervaded the organizers behind the upcoming weekend's Northside Festival in Brooklyn, NY. Northside Festival is NYC's largest and most accessible discovery festival. Hundreds of bands, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, innovators, and over 80,000 fans converge on Brooklyn over eight days to witness the most incredible showcase of "what's next" in music, film, [...]

The driver side mirror of automobiles isn't all that bad, but let's face it: most of us have had a blind side scare when switching lanes on the highway at some point in our lives. The blind spot is a product of faulty mirror placement, not necessarily the mirrors themselves.  However, the mirror hasn't changed at all since its introduction. Now, a no-blindspot driver side mirror has been created by R. Andrew Hick, a mathematics professor  at Drexel University in Philadelphia, rather than an automotive R&D team. The new mirror offers a larger field of vision as seen above . [...]

The release of RADIOHEAD 's most recent studio album, King Of Limbs , takes another extremely experimental approach to their sound, add their upcoming Australian tour and I thought I’d take us all back to the turn of the century to relive the sonically brilliant Kid A . What on first listen scared record label executives half to death, the fact that tracks one, two and three have no usual guitar presence whatsoever (these are also three [...]

Vadim Lavrusik, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the journalism program manager at Facebook, posits that media outlets must innovate the news gathering process instead of innovating the distribution process. Journalists should no longer think of themselves as “newspaper reporters” or a journalist of any specific medium. Instead they should consider themselves multimedia producers equipped to tell a story on multiple platforms. They should also have knowledge of how stories are being consumed. More than anything, a truly “integrated newsroom” will have journalists who build tools that enable [...]

The New York Times Magazine has released it's annual innovations edition, focusing upon 32 innovations that will change your tomorrow . Here's BoingBoing's Maggie Koerth-Baker on innovation: We tend to rewrite the histories of technological innovation, making myths about a guy who had a great idea that changed the world. In reality, though, innovation isn’t the goal; it’s everything that gets you there. It’s bad financial decisions and blueprints for machines that weren’t built until decades later. It’s the important leaps forward that synthesize lots of ideas, and it’s the belly-up failures that [...]

As we all know by now, Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys passed away yesterday at the age of 47. I'm working on a piece for next week, but I wanted to share this video that features the group's entire set from a 1999 concert in Glasgow. Enjoy. R.I.P. MCA.

[Photos by Geoffrey Dicker for According 2 G . See his review of the show here ] This same night that the inimitable  Björk took the stage at the New York Hall of Science , it happened to be "music's biggest night of the year" - the annual Grammy Awards.  In a giant auditorium in Los Angeles, the four major U.S. music corporations ("record label" seems too artistic a term) slathered awards on artists who - even in the case of the best performances - dutifully trod the well-worn ground of Motown, 60s rock, [...]

Ok Go & Chevy Sonic - “Needing/Getting” These guys are pretty terrible live and on record, but their innovative ways of presenting their music is unparalleled by anyone. Close second? Bjork’s “Biophilia”.

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Of all the great albums by Danny Brown, Tyler the Creator, Pharoahe Monch, Beans, Cities Aviv, Das Racist and Mr Muthafuckin eXquire (to name but a few), for me it was releases by Ghostpoet, Shabazz Palaces, 13 & God, Open Mike Eagle  and  Gonjasufi that really pushed, pulled and twisted the sonic scope of hip-hop into brave new worlds in 2011. Add to that list of five, my latest booming find, namely, BLKHRTS [...]

HUGE NEWS! For our fourth Acid House all-nighter we have the INVENTOR OF ACID HOUSE, DJ Pierre flying in from Chicago, USA. Call him Phuture, Pierre's Pfantasy Club, Phortune, Phuture Phantasy Club, The Don, Photon Inc, Aly-Us, Nat “Ja...mmin Jones”, Scratching Pierre, DJ Pierre, The Creator, Legend, Pioneer, Innovative, Timeless, Genius…they all apply. And now the man himself is coming to rock our warehouse with a one-off Acid House set. The event is going to take place at a great new warehouse location in east London and as we've proved with our previous parties, we create [...]

Sona Jobarteh - Fasiya Sona Jobarteh Fasiya (West African Guild Records, 2011) Gambian musician and vocalist Sona Jobarteh is a pioneer in the world of kora playing. Until recently, the kora was only taught to males and she is one of the few female virtuosos playing the ancient musical instrument. Although Sona uses the kora throughout her new album, titled Fasiya, the recording also features Sona as a sensational vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist on guitar, bass and percussion. Fasiya (heritage) skillfully combines the West African jali (griot) tradition with an outstanding [...]