Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Comic books and cinema diverge in plenty of ways, but the ability to use music in the latter may be the most immediate aesthetic difference between the two mediums. Films and comics can often reproduce each other’s visual touchstones; some comics, especially action-oriented ones, could serve as storyboards for their cinematic adaptations, and even…
On Thursday afternoon, one day after rapper Nicki Minaj and white rapper Taylor Swift became embroiled in an extremely heated Twitter exchange about race and about nothing, area woman Katy Perry tweeted this: Finding it ironic to parade the pit women against other women argument about as one unmeasurably capitalizes on the take down of…
newest format for blog old blog format Rapper 50 Cent’s recent declaration of bankruptcy raised quite a few eyebrows, and for obvious reason: in May, his net worth was valued by Forbes at $155 million for 2015, making him the fourth-richest hip-hop artist. In addition to his music career, 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) has…
Rihanna created a big-budget video for her single BBHMM and Taylor Swift enlisted what must be half of Hollywood for her Bad Love spectacular. The singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot, however, has a far more poignant approach to the music video. The one for her song The Road, shot in France over recent weeks, uses footage from…
Over the weekend, Taylor Swift took on the biggest company in the world — and won — in a battle that ultimately reveals how weak the position of Spotify and other streaming music companies really is as they are squeezed between superstar performers and giant platform companies. The background is Swift’s longstanding opposition to free…
Taylor Swift has just posted an open letter to Apple entitled “To Apple, Love Taylor” explaining why she’s holding back her latest album, 1989, from the new Apple Music streaming service. The problem, Swift says, is that for the three month free trial period every consumer gets, Apple won’t be paying artists for those streams. Swift…
To Beggars Group Labels Artists and Managers: We thought it was time to update you on the situation with Apple Music, following speculation in the press, some of it ill-informed. Apple have been a wonderful partner for the last decade, and we confidently trust they will continue to be so. We have recently been in…
You know how when you’re applying to college people always ask you those cliché questions like, “What is a moment that changed your life?” and you think they have to be really big and grand answers like about death or international travel? Then you get older and finally have some real answers, only nobody ever…
As a card-carrying Apple fanboy, I often have a hard time keeping an objective journalistic head on my shoulders when faced with the company’s offerings. My home is a museum of iPods, iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. I may not have bought the Apple Watch — not yet, anyway — but I certainly admire the beauty…
Ben Folds music has taken another turn, firmly embracing strings and chamber music yet still maintaining a passion for his love of pop. So There, his next album, will consist of eight chamber pop songs with the very talented yMusic Ensemble and one piano concerto performed with the Nashville Symphony. Today we premiere a little…