KRS One

Alternative Rock Folk Rock 

Sweetness Follows: R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People at 30

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Andy Kaufman, Automatic For The People, Bill Berry, Drive, Everybody Hurts, Kate Pierson, KRS One, Man on the Moon, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Montgomery Clift, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Scott Litt

Looking back on a timeless time capsule of an album

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Blues Funk Remembrance Soul 

It Wasn’t Because He’s Black, It Was Because He Was Great

February 9, 2022February 10, 2022 James Porter 3 Comments Al Green, Ann Peebles, Booker T. And the MG's, Booker T. Jones, Buddy Guy, Cypress Hill, funk, Hi Records, KRS One, Mavis Staples, Michael Jackson, R&B, RIP, Soul, Syl Johnson, Willie Hutch, Wu-Tang Clan

Remembering the art and artistry of sampled soul giant Syl Johnson

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Music Journalism 

I Bought a Hit Song by Mux Mool

November 10, 2021March 13, 2022 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Barry Manilow., Big Pun, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Brian Lindgren, Chrissie Hynde, Domingo Padilla, Drake, Hipgnosis Song Fund, Imagine Dragons, KRS One, Masta Ace, Mux Mool, Richie Sambora, Rick James, royalties, Stevie Nicks

Unexpected payday when EDM artist lands a song on a TV show

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Art Pop Hip Hop 

P.M. Dawn’s American Utopia

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Jason Thurston 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, Arrested Development, Digable Planets, Gee Street, Hieroglyphics, KRS One, Minutemix, Of the Heart, Of the Soul and Of the Cross: The Utopian Experience, OutKast, P.M. Dawn, Paper Doll, Prince Be, Set Adrift On Memory Bliss, Spearhead

Looking back on 30 years of the debut album by one of hip-hop’s most misunderstood acts

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Rock 

Betting on Music at the Royalty Exchange

September 21, 2020July 29, 2022 Ken Kurson 5 Comments Antony Bruno, Ariana Grande, BMI, Brian Swindle, Chief Keef, David Pullman, Domingo Padilla, Drake, Green, Have Mercy, Hipgnosis Songs Fund, I Saw Her First, KRS One, Lil' Uzi Vert, Little Steven’s Underground Garage, Macklemore, Masta Ace, Megadisc, Mills Music Trus, Misfits, Mux Mool, My Sister Jane, REO Speedwagon, Richard Lloyd, Rodney Bingenheimer, Royalty Exchange, SiriusXM, Studio 19, the Doobie Brothers, The Lilacs, The Lilacs Endure, The Returnables, Three Doors Down, Tony Defries, White Soul

The song’s the thing

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