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Even our enemies deserve music: Michael Franti and other young artists are spearheading a new generation of politically engaged musicians. Jeff Chang charts
In New York's hermetic world of music and fashion, it's been the year of the throwback, a post--11 September retreat to the familiar and comfortable....(Continue Reading) Music Industry in Flux - Industry Overview
Byline: Cynthia L. Webb Anyone watching last night's lavish Grammy Awards ceremony might have the impression that all is well in the multi-billion-dollar ......(Continue Reading)Birth of a station: a new type of radio technology—satellite radio—offers listeners a fresh alternative to the obnoxious talk jocks and boring
Here's something unusual. You hop in your friend's new family car and flip on the radio. On come Nelly and Ashanti and Eve. Then come Alicia Keys and ......(Continue Reading)Big World: how Clear Channel programs America - War of the worlds: Part One
On July 17, 2002, as a band called The Boils was preparing to play, seven men with badges, police officers and agents of Philadelphia's Department of ......(Continue Reading)Do you hear what I hear? - a need to air more than just sex-themed Black music in radio programming - Back Talk - Column
The lyrics of 'gangsta rap' is often dismissed as having a bad influence on Black people. But the current R&B music being played on the radio, is also too often one-dimensional sex-obsessed. We need t...(Continue Reading)
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