After shaking up the rap game with a breakout verse on the Main Source’s"Live at the Barbeque,"a 17-year-old, chip-toothed MC namedNasir "Nas" Joneswas crowned a prophet. His silk-smooth delivery and poetic rhymes on the 1991 jam were reminiscent of hip-hop greats like Kool G Rap ...
That will always be adjacent to neo soul, but I don’t necessarily want to do a whole live jazz album as a 30-year-old right now. A lot of decisions that I made are also rock influenced as well. I was listening to a lot of Black Sabbath, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin ...
With my swim schedule, I can’t always shower in the morning, but I love it when I can. It helps me wake up and it helps to slow down the start of the day. When I was in studio for Olympics coverage and swimming later in the day, a shower was the first thing I’d do. Oribe...
The 1940s music that floated through the airwaves and into the minds of teenage bobby-soxers was that of big bands, such as the Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras. It was also the era of the heartthrob male crooners, who often transitioned from the stage to the screen, where fans...
The 1940s music that floated through the airwaves and into the minds of teenage bobby-soxers was that of big bands, such as the Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras. It was also the era of the heartthrob male crooners, who often transitioned from the stage to the screen, where fans...
“He was unhappy,” she admits, from her studious-looking home office. Its walls lined with shelves of paperbacks in rainbow shades behind her. “I thought, as his manager, I have a brilliant programmer. I have a brilliant colleague. I need to keep him.'” When Margriet took the ...
Kelly is not yet, she went to the guided tour of Serge Gainsbourg's old flat, should artists be allowed to play deep cuts? when you're too stupid to be offensive, the overwhelming emotional overload of a big stage production, and as a listener herself, she asks us a few burning ...
Chloe Wise is an artist from New York. We chat with her about where to get a fade in Sweden, Chloe's live/work space, Lily Allen's AD tour, befriending her 82-year-old neighbor, she visited her parents in Boca for 24 hours, large format pasta, she would
While mothers dote on their sons and prepare their favorite food, fathers love to have some man-to-man time with their sons on National Sons Day. Tossing around the old pigskin, taking them out, and imparting words of wisdom. Sons don’t get verbal or physical approval as often as daught...
"I was about 26 years old, and I kind of felt indestructible," Cocker admitted during a 2012 interview with NPR. "By the early '70s, the drugs and the booze took their toll. ... It was a long road back. A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when...