Tag: Fads
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DJ Ruth Flowers: 69 and rocking ’em hard
Brilliant, and to show you’re never too old to rock the crowd! 😀 What I love about things like this is the reaction from the younger people who are amazed that someone of that age gets their music, culture etc. It’s necessary at that age to think that it’s all new and just for you,…
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Know your roots: Beat This Hip Hop documentary
Beat This: A Hip Hop History BBC documentary from 1984 about the roots of hiphop – contains an interview with the legendary DJ Kool Herc, the father of hiphop…and Afrika Bambaataa, Malcolm McLaren, Arthur Baker and more.
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Acid House will NEVER DIE!
Hacienda as pictured in ’24 Hour Party People’ – great film btw …and the Hacienda, and piano house in general. I’m sure at some point acid house devotees will become annoying as punk bores, but with piano house on the rebound a and late 80’s house references on the come back (see Hercules and Love…
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New for 2009?
Just looking through the BBC’s Sound of 2009 – and I’m struck by the thought that unlike 2008 which in rock and pop has been fairly MEH with a few exceptions (dance and drum and bass is in rude health though; indie has become corporate and bland; pop is ringtones now with only a few…