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Artist collaborations infuse dynamic firepower into rap genre

By NICK MINDICINO
April 12, 2012 in Arts & Entertainment, Columns

Many successful rap songs feature memorable guest appearances. What would Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” have sounded like without Alicia Keys? Or how would B.o.B’s smash hit “Airplanes” have fared without the assistance of Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams? The hip-hop genre is notorious for eccentric and unexpected, yet highly successful collaborations. They allow rap to […]

Songwriters deserve credit from listeners and music world

By NICK MINDICINO
January 26, 2012 15 Comments/in Arts & Entertainment, Columns

For every great artist, there’s often a greater songwriter at work behind the scenes. That’s because a significant amount of artists, many of them mainstream, show up to sing their songs and build their brands but do not compose the material. In the rap and rock worlds, not writing one’s own material is more unusual. […]

Playlist from a Play—the music of Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll”

By RYAN KINDEL
January 24, 2012 in Blogs, That's What We Said

Visions and Voices rocked students at Bovard auditorium last Thursday night with a concert reading of Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll. The play is above all historical, examining protest movements in England and Czechoslovakia in the second half of the twentieth century, but (as you might expect based on its title) Rock ‘n’ Roll is […]

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Artist collaborations infuse dynamic firepower into rap genre

Songwriters deserve credit from listeners and music world

Playlist from a Play—the music of Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll”

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s sophomore success

Black Dub grows from complex history

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