My interview with 21-year old Chicago emcee Rockie Fresh was supposed to take place sooner , but we were unable to connect. The silver lining in the delay though was that I was able to absorb all three of his mix-tapes. And as an appreciator of lyricism, I became more excited than ever to hear [...]
I was first introduced to Bishop Lamont’s music in the summer of 2006 when I heard “Welcome to Havoc” during the closing credits of the straight-to-DVD film, Havoc. I learned soon after that Bishop was signed with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment and I eagerly awaited his debut, The Reformation. While working for Billboard Magazine in [...]
April 20, 2012 Dear Lady Justice, On Sunday, February 26, 2012, an unarmed 17-year-old African American male, Trayvon Martin, was killed by a 26-year-old biracial Hispanic American man named George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Martin was returning on foot to the home of his father’s fiancee from a 7-Eleven after purchasing a [...]
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The great thing about Nashville is there is never a shortage of bands to write about. On any given week I can usually find a band that’s promoting a new album or who has decided to give away a previous album that deserves some attention. This week though I’m changing it up a little bit & writing about a band that needs your help funding their new album. They just so happen to have a show coming up this Sunday at 3rd & Lindsley as well. That band is Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors.
I was first introduced to Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors through last year’s Next Big Nashville Festival. Since then
I do a lot of work in rights and clearances for television programming and I have a bit of a problem: I don’t know what the hell the iPad is. Alright, unless you’ve been living under a rock (and, heck, at this point, even if you have), you probably have a basic understanding of what the iPad does. I comprehend its functionality, its impact on pop culture, its various apps and I even understand a bit about how, technologically speaking, it all works. What I don’t know is precisely how to clear for it.
Traditional clearance categories, for music synchronization, master use licenses, footage uses, photos, etc. fall into three
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