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The Only Black Guy at the Indie Rock Show

The author, Martin Douglas, and his father. I. Portrait of the Author as a Young Punk I was born around hip hop, but my life as a music fan didn’t start until the summer of 1991. My parents…
SOURCE:MTV Hive
PUBLISHED: Jan. 16, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3060 words)

A Sorry State: Pop Marketing & Rihanna's Unapologetic

A week ago, I sat in a tiny red room, around a tiny table, to listen to a record. I wasn't alone. Will Hodgkinson from The Times, The Independent's Andy Gill, and The Mirror's Priya Élan were…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2605 words)

The Song Machine

On a mild Monday afternoon in mid-January, Ester Dean, a songwriter and vocalist, arrived at Roc the Mic Studios, on West Twenty-seventh Street in Manhattan, for the first of five days of…
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6604 words)
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