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Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:03 AM PDT


Bright Lights, Big City!
Speaking purely as a writer, I find it interesting that, after all these years of blathering about music, I need a certain…oomph…to begin the actual process of writing! And so it is that tonight, only moments ago, I grabbed an unmarked CD—I have a lot of them—put it in my player, pressed "play," and, with [...]

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:17 PM PDT


DJ Premiere, Questlove And Chuck D Among Hosts Of 8-Week 'GrindXDesign' Series
Music industry conferences offer fledgling artists and executives opportunities to receive insight from respected experts in the field. But many independent acts can't afford the conference registration fees or costs required to travel to New York, Los Angeles or Austin for the events. Hip hop activist and media assassin Harry Allen has a solution for [...]

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:58 PM PDT


Kirk Franklin, Framed
It's occurred to us that readers probably don't know that Framed is generally written several weeks before it's posted. Here's how it works: Every Monday, about five minutes after the blog posts on Y! Music, we receive an encrypted e-mail cosigned by President Obama and Justin Bieber. The e-mail tells us which artist we'll feature [...]