FRIDAY M.I.A. and Lynn Hirschberg’s “Agitprop Pop” By Angela Bacca Last week, the New York Times published a controversial piece by staff writer Lynn Hirschberg on M.I.A, which painted her as a wealthy disconnected and uninformed musician who uses the politics of her native Sri Lanka to further her image and sell records. Most notable was…
EMINEM: RECOVERY By Angela Bacca I have always liked Eminem’s brutal honesty and raw emotion. He has rapped about killing his mom and his girlfriend in graphic detail, and although mainstream pundits labeled him a violent misogynist, I have always seem it as purely crafted catharsis. They were raps of pure emotions, but I personally…
Original Published by SFCritic on May 2010 I love MTV Jams. It’s the only channel on TV that plays music videos. Granted, most of the videos are Top 40 rappers surrounded by video hoes gyrating on cars with over-sized rims next to stacks of money. All 50 of their friends are in the video drinking…
Originally Published by SFCritic Last month, the state of Arizona passed SB 1070, which gives police and other state authorities the jurisdiction to request proof of citizenship from anyone on the street. Internationally, musicians have been the loudest vocal opposition. While a similar law was passed federally in 1986, the new Arizona law is particularly…
Originally Published by SFCritic I spend a lot of time in front of a computer, and a lot of that time utilizing the internet to discover new music. I usually start at Pandora.com, discover a song I like and then listen to the whole album– for free- at Lala.com. Lala had become the bridge between…
Posted by admin on 4/13/10 • Categorized as Album Review,Reviews By Angela Bacca The Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach is not so much a typical album as the soundtrack to a post-modern dystopia of the future. In the opening track of the album “Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach,” Snoop Dogg sits on the orange-skyed polluted beach, blunt in mouth…
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