category: music
hip hop landmarks and locations
June 6, 2012 matt
When A Tribe Called Quest released Midnight Marauders, I doubt they knew that the album cover was going to be a signpost for the end of an era. Hip hop’s golden age started around the time Run DMC collaborated with Aerosmith on “Walk this Way” in 1986, and depending on who you ask, lasted not […]
A Beastie Revolution: Locations from the early hardcore days of the Beastie Boys in NYC
May 19, 2012 peter bell
Before they were rhymin’ and stealin’, or getting live on the spot (puttin’ all kinds of shame in the game you got), the Beastie Boys were a rag-tag group of punk rockers in New York City. Not just any kind of punk rock– the loud, fast, agro version called hardcore that was popularized by bands […]
Jay Reatard locations
April 19, 2012 peter bell
When people talk about the music of Memphis, TN, many legendary artists, groups and labels come to mind. After all, Memphis is the home of Sun Studios– where Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley made their earliest recordings. Elvis pilgrims still flock in droves to Graceland to take in the dated opulence of […]
Bob Marley locations
April 12, 2012 peter bell
Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley was born February 6, 1945 in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. In the 36 years of his relatively short life, Marley became the figurehead of a musical (reggae) and spiritual (Rastafarianism) movement. So whether you see him as a transformative social figure, or as the inspiration […]
locations from a selection of spike jonze music videos : part 3 (1997–2011)
March 8, 2012 matt
After a slowdown in directing music videos around 1996 (see part 2), Spike Jonze would pick up the pace again with videos for R.E.M., Puff Daddy and Notorious B.I.G. in 1997. His video for “Da Funk” off of Daft Punk’s first album was a short film involving a man in a dog mask on crutches […]