What are you listening to?

[ice grillin you]

dire straits...respect it...

btw that isnt modern music...came out in 93

respect you for at least tryin it tho...peace

[Diomedes]

You're one for two this week, Wiggy.  That's a nice track.  Try not to get cocky with all the praise.

[Rome]

[ice grillin you]

coltrane with johnny hartman is nuts

[Rome]

If you're into jazz, check this out:

Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane @ Carnegie Hall

The story behind its discovery is almost as amazing as the recording itself.

[mussa]

Strokes, First Impressions of Earth
Handsome Boy Modeling School, So...How's Your Girl?

[Diomedes]

So..How's Your Girl is fantastic.  10 times better than their second effort.

[phattymatty]

agreed.  most of white people is weird just for the sake of being weird.


i'm listening to immortal technique at the moment.  it's good.

[MURP]

David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Venom- Metal Black
Vital Remains- Horrors of Hell

[NGM]

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues.

[Rome]

Now in the changer:

The Cars - (Debut Album)

Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume 1

The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me


I swear, people walk by my office and ask me "wtf are you listening to now" all the time.  An associate in the next office had her door open for Coltrane & Monk but as soon as The Replacements came on, she got up and shut the door.

[ice grillin you]

Smithsonian to Collect Hip-Hop Relics

By MARCUS FRANKLIN
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK

For nearly three decades, hip-hop relics such as vinyl records, turntables, microphones and boom boxes have collected dust in boxes and attics.

On Tuesday, owners of such items _ including pioneering hip-hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Fab 5 Freddy _ will blow that dust off and carry them to a Manhattan hotel to turn them over to National Museum of American History officials.

The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is announcing its plans to embark on a collecting initiative, "Hip-Hop Won't Stop: the Beat, the Rhymes, the Life."

The project, the beginnings of a permanent collections, will gather objects that trace hip-hop's origins in the Bronx in the 1970s to its current global reach. It is expected to cost as much as $2 million and take up to five years to complete.

Museum officials have yet to raise the money, which will come from private donors. They will use the funds to pay for artifacts, record oral histories, hold consultations with advisory groups and mount an exhibit telling hip-hop's story.

Hip-hop culture, whose main elements include rappers, DJs and breakdancers, is considered one of the most powerful cultural explosions ever. Today, it's incorporated into marketing to sell everything from cars and clothing to food and furniture.

"Hip-hop was born in New York but it's now a global phenomenon," said Valeska Hilbig, a National Museum spokeswoman. "It's here to stay, and it's part of American culture just like jazz is part of American history. It's part of the narrative we tell at the museum."

The idea for an exhibition grew out of conversations between Brent D. Glass, the national museum's director, and his childhood friend Mark Shimmel, of Mark Shimmel Music, museum curator Marvette Perez said.

"It's American music," Perez, who staged an exhibition on Latin music singer Celia Cruz, said of rap. "It shows the creativity that exists in urban environments."

Besides records, boom boxes, mics and turntables, Perez requested photographs, posters, handwritten lyrics, clothing and costumes, videos and interviews and business and personal letters from hip-hop's early artists. She said she wouldn't know until Tuesday what the artists will hand over.

Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, scheduled to attend Tuesday's announcement at the Hilton New York, wouldn't say what he planned to donate. But he called the Smithsonian's recognition a "great statement for hip-hop."

"It's not a signal to the end of hip-hop," Simmons, co-founder of the venerable Def Jam label, said of the Smithsonian's undertaking. "We know it will be a lasting fixture. And it should be. All over the world hip-hop is expression of young people's struggles, their frustrations and opinions."

Simmons brother, Joseph "Rev. Run" Simmons, a member of the seminal rap group Run-D.M.C., also is scheduled to appear at the announcement.

The Smithsonian isn't the only museum with an interest in hip-hop culture. In the fall of 2000, the Brooklyn Museum of Art put on "Hip- Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes & Rage." In June the museum plans to feature an exhibition of graffiti art, spokesman Adam Husted said.

The Museum of the City of New York plans to hold "Black Style Now" in September on hip-hop's impact on fashion and black fashion designers. And the Experience Music Project, an interactive music museum in Seattle, has featured exhibitions on hip-hop, Perez said.

[ice grillin you]

https://home.comcast.net/~josh.hosler/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm

[Rome]

Listening to "The Essential Clash" right now.  The Magnificent Seven's on at the moment.

RIP, Joe Strummer.

[MDS]

Everything I do, I do it for you

God bless you, Bryan Adams