Cults: Go Outside Video

July 14, 2011 Learn

[via BoingBoing] Indie darlings Cults have created quite a stir with their self-titled potentially-top-album-of-the-year. The album earned the coveted “Best New Music” distinction from Pitchfork with an 8.5 rating, and earned a place in Stereogum’s updated Best of 2011 so far (and so on down the indie blog chain). What’s interesting about Cults, though, is [...]

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BLU Documentary

June 30, 2011 Learn

If anybody deserves a documentary about their work, it’s certainly Italian street artist Blu. If you don’t know Blu’s work, have a look at the above video, titled “MUTO”. It’s a sample, one of several video’s in the same ilk that creatively use spacial and contextual real life elements to bring life to the fictional [...]

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OFWGKTA

February 17, 2011 Learn
OFWGKTA

OFWGKTA, which is short for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, which is often abbreviated as Odd Future, are a hip-hop collective out of LA that has been making some mainstream noise for the first time after years in the underground. And rightfully so. These cats have taken modern jazz changes and free-chromatic classical [...]

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Words I Never Said (W.I.N.S.)

February 3, 2011 Learn
Words I Never Said (W.I.N.S.)

Lupe Fiasco has done it once again. His social and political commentary in the past years has often been drenched in creative metaphors and dark parody but this time around Lupe comes straight up. He is one of the few mainstream artists right now speaking truth consistently. The first track gave me chills as I [...]

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Build Me Holy Like That

January 16, 2011 Learn

To open up the ear… My turn, to the artists (music, con, and otherwise) in my life, I ask: please, stop calling it slam. stop calling it poetry. it’s what I do – stop calling me. stop writing me into songs you don’t want to hear. stop pretending you alone carry creation. we weren’t born [...]

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TNC Presents: Mike Rosen – Erasure (audio + full poetry chapbook)

January 3, 2011 Featured
TNC Presents: Mike Rosen – Erasure (audio + full poetry chapbook)

I, Mike Rosen (the shameless hooligan you know as illDefined) started TheNewConfusion a few years ago as a way to practice writing and share my work. It’s been a while since I posted any of my own work up here… so without any further shenanigans I’d like very much for you to read a copy [...]

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Christmas Special: SA-RA Creative Partners

December 25, 2010 Learn
Christmas Special: SA-RA Creative Partners

If you don’t know, now you know. SA-RA Creative Partners is a group of hip-hop producers, record executives, and musicians that came together in the late ’90′s to, quite simply, make good music on their own terms when the rest of hip-hop was  into its MTV era and still at the mercy of A&R departments. [...]

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NPR’s The Record Analyzes Rap: With a Book Critic

December 7, 2010 Learn
NPR’s The Record Analyzes Rap: With a Book Critic

NPR, most recently in the news for it’s survival of House Republicans’ plan to slash its budget, is, for many, a beacon of light amidst the dying world of radio. The Record is an NPR-run blog about the way people purchase, listen to, and think about music, and one of their recent posts is an [...]

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Art Speaks: Mentalgassi & Troy Davis’s Unjust Imprisonment

December 6, 2010 Learn

Mentalgassi took to the streets and the fences in the UK on behalf of Amnesty International to raise awareness about prisoner Troy Davis. Check out the video. Follow the link. Related Posts:LUDO/Paris DocumentaryLana Del Rey – Video Games (Jamie Woon Remix) BLU DocumentaryAdele – Rolling in the Deep (Video)

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weSLAM’s on the Road to CUPSI: College Poetry Slam at Wesleyan University

December 6, 2010 Featured
weSLAM’s on the Road to CUPSI: College Poetry Slam at Wesleyan University

Something is happening here, and you don’t know what it is… – Bob Dylan A series of poetry slams has sprung up at Wesleyan University. For the last few months WordSmith and I, along with a handful of some incredibly brave and genuine individuals, have found ourselves in the middle of a whirlwind… On Friday [...]

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