Getting Random

Catching up on blogging is always tough when you’ve got one foot here and another out the door. So here’s a couple of weeks of stuff.

• Flash is still cool. Congrats on him and the Five making it into the R+R Hall of Fame. Next up: Public Enemy?
–Newark Star-Ledger
–Newsday

• Davey D features “Confessions of a BET Producer”, in four parts.

• Bye Coach K!

posted by Jeff Chang @ 11:03 am | 3 Comments

Anonymous says:

March 16, 2007 at 3:56 pm

Hello. Sometime reader, first-time poster. I enjoyed the article

You may have already taken a look at Jody Rosen’s review on Slate. It makes some similar points, though his comparisons w/ hip hop producers and Springsteen bears questioning. Liu makes a better case.

http://www.slate.com/id/2161645/

(Also: A whole article on the appropriation of history in alt and/or indie rock and not a single mention of Sufjan Stevens? WTF?)
Anonymous says:

March 16, 2007 at 4:01 pm

Sorry, I meant to say:

I enjoyed the articleS. In regards to the one on the Arcade Fire …
gandalf mantooth says:

March 16, 2007 at 9:02 pm

May Coach K choke on his own ego.

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