By Jason Arline Music Journalist Hip-Hop and Rap undoubtedly owes its roots to the streets of New York where all the kids that were too young to get into the discos would throw their own parties instead. Most of the people listening to rap were minorities at the time. Without the acknowledgment of Rap by mainstream media it was allowed to be a transparent form of expression for the […]
By Mason Moore & Elise Montemayor Other Side Drive Hosts Mason Moore photographed with Kydd Jones. Image by Mason Moore. Other Side Drive hosts Mason Moore and Elise Montemayor sat down with Austin-based rapper Kydd Jones. Jones shared his journey with KTSW listeners. He chatted about how he started rapping on the basketball court of the boys and girls club, his top five rappers and even his future goals. The […]
By Maria Coraza Music Journalist DIY female-indie rocker Liz Phair first made her musical mark in the early 1990s with the underground bootleg-cassette of Girly-Sound. Phair never intended to pursue a musical career when the tapes were circulating around at the time, but it did lead her to a recording contract with Matador Records. On June 22, 1993, she released her studio debut and critically-acclaimed Exile in Guyville. With lo-fi […]
By Kevin Baxter Music Journalist Artist: Mr Elevator and the Brain Hotel Album: Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious Released Date: October 23rd, 2019 Website: https://mrelevator.bandcamp.com/ Mr Elevator and the Brain Hotel is a four-piece psychedelic rock group hailing from Los Angeles, California. Releasing their first album in 2013, this group was able to combine the raw sound of modern garage rock with catchy melodies reminiscent of ‘60s psych pop. They […]
By Megan Gallagher Music Journalist As an avid music admirer, I am curious about the magic of music, as is anyone that surfs blogs for music content! Thus, I wanted to throw appreciative energy out into the cosmos to Mort Garson for his synthesizer-masterpiece, Mother Earth’s Plantasia. Released in 1976, this album was the dark horse in the tides of the wave of synthesized music that prevailed from the ‘60s […]
By Anthony Velasquez Music Journalist As I put in all and any of my bios, I have four years of classical training under my belt. Today I want to talk about my experience with One Voice: my new vocal training program. One Voice has changed the way I view singing. In traditional voice training, I was taught to understand that there are three registers (where you resonate while singing) in […]
By Brandi MitchellWeb Content Contributor We are approaching 57 years since Betty Friedan wrote “The Feminine Mystique”, an essay identifying the pervasive underlying dissatisfaction of women who were told by society that their worth was primarily found in their homes, their marriages and their families. When Friedan wrote her essay, she was addressing a tragic phenomenon of women actually believing that they had less to offer the world than a […]
By Timia Cobb Web Content Contributor Men for years have been coerced to meet the societal pressures of being “manly.” Men felt as if they had to meet the standards of being masculine and disregard anything that was perceived as feminine behavior. However, somewhere down the line having good hygiene, pampering yourself and simply being clean was deemed as feminine. Having good hygiene and using various amounts of products or […]
By Ally Bolender Web Content Contributor Men TV characters. They make us laugh, cry and wish they were real. The best characters don’t hide who they are, and express themselves in whatever way feels real. Sure, I may be biased being born in the very late ‘90s, but here are a few characters that speak to me as a Netflix fanatic and are always on our screens. The amount of […]
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