wax&wires

This indie doc poses the question to artists on all sides of the copyright debate: can you own a sound?

“They call me Hova, that’s not my name!”

Roc-A-Fella co-founder Damon Dash has teamed up with some high profile talent to form the “Blak Roc” project.

In confirmation that there is a God above who loves us very much, Kanye West has decided to go back and cut the Auto-Tune from Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3.

Archer Record Pressing is a small little family run shop in Detroit. You might expect it to have an R&B clientelle, true to it’s MoTown geography, but the thing that has kept it alive has actually been the rise of techno.

Pearl Jam just released the deluxe reissue of their debut album, TEN a little less than a week ago. As part of the hype for the new album, MTV2 rounded up a bunch of more current artists to cover their favorite Pearl Jam tracks and hip-hopper POS tops the covers.

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New York’s Ratatat has been cranking out some great electronic music for the past 4-5 years. Their latest album, LP3, was released this past summer. I read somewhere that they actually made this whole album in just a few weeks. If you’re into electronic music, be sure to pick this one up. [...]

My dad has always been proud of his Scottish roots, and never minced words when expressing his distaste for hip hop. Maybe now, he’ll have to reconsider.
Ferenc Szasz, professor of American and Scottish culture at the University of New Mexico, claims that the modern rap battle finds its origins in medieval Scottish “flyting.”
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You’ve undoubtedly heard some of Santogold’s tracks in commercials and the like. All I can think of when I hear Creator is BudLight Lime. You may have caught her performance on the MTVU Woody awards too. Needless to say, Santogold is on the rise. A lot of people have mistaken the Philly-born [...]

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Kanye’s new album, 808s & Heartbreak, is $3.99 on Amazon right now. If you can stand the autotune, the beats are pretty good.
Download the whole album here:
Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak

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You can snag Common’s brand new album on Amazon right now for just $3.99.
It’s got some fun and bouncy tracks on it. Lyrically, I’ve always liked Common for his social commentary more than the songs about girls and clubbing (which this album has far too much of the latter, so give yourself [...]