10DERFüT: Now Playing
1. One Time – The Roots
2. Lana Del Rey – Kinda Outta Luck
3. Tabi Bonney – Top Notch
4. J*Davey – Quicksand
5. Wildfire – SBTRKT
6. The Look (King Krule Rmx) – Metronomy
7. She – Tyler The Creator
8. God Bless Us All – N.E.R.D
9. Too Young To Die – Sunni Colón
10. Revofev – Kid Cudi
11. Tom’s Diner – Suzanne Vega
12. Lovely Bloodflow – Baths
13. Runnin – Pharcyde
14. Under Construction – Solange
15. Do You Have Time - THEESatisfaction
WhoSampled: Pitchfork’s BFF
Along with the advent of musical elitism in the form of Pitchfork.com, music appreciators have a different avenue of expanding their libraries (and criticizing the less-enlightened) through the sample-matching website WhoSampled.
WhoSampled may have its benefits in bridging the gap between music collectors and casual listeners. With its help in formulating a historical context for current music - identifying its samples and influences, and therefore placing it in conjunction with older forms or pieces of music- anyone can become a music critic. The site also has a collaborative aspect, as listeners can submit their own sample suggestions for review.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2009/12/whosampled-uncovering-the-orig.php
Prada Brings Jordan to Milan: Fall/Winter 2012 Show
Although the men’s divisions of fashion brands are usually overlooked in comparison to their feminine counterparts- there is only so much a designer can do with a wardrobe that allows for only two styles of bottom-wear- Prada’s men’s Fall/Winter 2012 showcase in January 2012 should be closely studied for an interesting lesson in cultural obliviousness for two reasons. First, the runway, which was covered in a massive carpet, was described by critics, bloggers, and journalists alike as a simple “red carpet” and the highlight of the show seemed to be the celebrities walking upon the carpet. Yet unbeknownst to the critics covering Prada’s show, the carpet is instantly recognizable all over the Levantine Arab nations- this is most definitively, down to the last detail, a Bedouin-style carpet, with the black concentric, sharply-edged geometric shapes, and white and green center. Often made with camel hair or sheep’s wool, by hand, in the Middle East, these carpets often line the insides of homes, cover flat cushions, or are woven in greater proportions to create tents. Absolutely no mention of this imported cultural image was made anywhere in the Western press, and greater pains were taken to identify the celebrities Prada chose to display its Fall/Winter line. Interestingly enough, Prada’s line for 2012 had a distinctively military aesthetic, with greatcoats, shield-shaped lapel pins, badge-style pins adorning the collars-perhaps this is a testament to Western obliviousness, or a political statement on Prada’s part about Western militancy and imperialism, but incorporating Middle Eastern textiles into one of the most revered fashion lines in the world could signal an attempt, at least artistically, to reconcile these two worlds.
http://www.latimes.com/features/image/la-milan-fashion-week-prada-mens-autumn-winter-2012—20120117,0,4459142.photogallery
ALBUM REVIEW: UNDUN (2011)
Just last month The Roots drooped their 13th studio album, entitled “Undun”. I would’ve loved to write my own review for the album, but alas time wouldn’t permit. I just got it this morning, and from what I’ve heard, I would give 3 mics (out of 5). Here’s a more comprehensive review that I found on NPR. I don’t think my musical review would have been as formal; I prefer the casual route.
Will tells Luddah to be thankful for what he has, but Ludacris wants it all!
Mission Statement
Our magazine seeks to fill the space for a contemporary, trendy arts and culture-focused publication for young people interested in music, fashion, and social change. The magazine aims at a socially and culturally conscious readership of young adults, and its goal is to bring the subject matter for engaging with and acting on these sensibilities all into one place. In this sense the magazine is a lifestyle magazine—it works to bring together people who are at an important juncture in their lives as they begin to self-consciously build their adult cultural tastes and form the networks of friends, references, and intellectual/social values that will sustain them throughout their lives. This is the time when young people are most in need of a vibrant community of similarly minded and opposed people with whom they can debate and collaborate on these issues, and building such a community is another of the magazine’s primary goals. By encouraging active discussion on contemporary topics in a wide variety of relevant contexts, we hope to provide a resource that socially and culturally conscious young people can use to reach their creative potential.
- David
Table of Contents
Hey guys -
Our table of contents is here:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxZsZRz42Jn8MmQ5NmU5ODUtN2QyYi00ZThlLTlhNTYtZDY0YzhhMTQ3ODRk
- David
HIP HOP’S NEW HOOK MAN??
ATLien Roscoe Dash gets poised to take over the game one hook at a time. Oh my!
Our Magazine’s Internet Arm
Though the magazine is substantially focused on images and the visual experience of reading the print magazine, there are certain capabilities of the Internet that mesh well with our subject matter and the tendencies of our intended audience, so we envision an online presence for the magazine that encompasses the following elements in order to supplement the print edition:
- Inspired by Sina Najafi’s comment that the most interested readers will probably actually read only 60% of a given issue of Cabinet, we feel it is important that our readers be able to easily dig deeper into the things they see in the magazine that they find most interesting. With this in mind, we hope to have a selection of links and ideas for more in-depth exploration available online for many of the things featured in the print magazine—along the lines of “If you liked the artist featured in this music review, you might also be interested in these other artists (links to reviews of their music and videos of representative performances), this show that’s coming up soon at a venue near you (link to the website for the show with promo info), and this new mixtape from an up-and-coming artist that you can download online for free (a link to the site),” or “If you liked this essay, you might be interested in these books that explore similar academic and intellectual themes (links to reviews), these other literary journal essays (links to them), and these authors (links to bios/reviews of their work)”. The idea here is to cull from the huge database of interesting things available to intellectually curious people on the Internet to extend the reach of the magazine, which is limited both by size and medium, and give people the resources they need to explore the parts of the content of the magazine that are of interest to them in greater depth and (hopefully) be inspired to do interesting things on their own.
- As a supplement to the written and visual portions of the music section, obviously it’s critical to be able to hear the music too, so we intend to feature an online playlist (audio tracks and videos of live performances) available for free to subscribers of the magazine for each issue, which would allow people to hear the music presented in the issue and deepen the experience of reading a review or other written piece. This playlist would be a fairly fluid medium, and could feature things aside from just songs depending on what happens to be relevant given the focus of an individual issue, although we will be vigilant to ensure that the experience of reading the print magazine does not come to depend on the online content in any way—it is important to us that it be able to stand alone.
- We would also like to have an online letters section—we are aiming for an Internet-literate, young, contemporary readership, and will strongly encourage readers to submit online their written responses to anything featured in the magazine—we will encourage these responses to be as eclectic and creative as possible, and will publish the most interesting of them online, with places that users can comment on the letters. We hope to use this forum to have discussions among the readers of the magazine—ideally some of the letters will be about the magazine itself (ranging from loving it to hating it and everything in between), and some of the letters will be about the artists, events, fashions, trends, and issues the magazine features. Both of these categories seem like topics ripe for discussion among young people who care intensely about their culture and want other like-minded and opposed people their own age to have meaningful discussions about these subjects with. We could also use this section to bring some humor into the project and do some funny letters from the editors in the style of the McSweeney’s letters section we read for class.
- We envision this online forum for discussion of the magazine and the issues it covers to grow as the readership of the magazine grows—if the magazine gets popular enough it would be really cool if communities of people who unite around the magazine could be formed in various cities. Ideally the magazine would provide a venue for people to find other readers of the magazine who live in the same local arts and culture scene and coordinate with each other in whatever ways they find to be useful for their artistic and intellectual goals.
- The formation of this type of community, as well as the maintenance of an active network of online announcements and communications surrounding the large number of events that would potentially interest the readers of this magazine, would help to bridge the gap between issues, which we see as one of the weaknesses of this magazine since a quarter is a long time to go between issues in the constantly active arts and culture world of young adults.
- David
