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The 5 Pillars of the Music Business
“The music business was built around five pillars: Free radio promotion A limited number of competing music labels The high cost of production, requiring musicians to get financing from labels The Top 40 hits-based focus of the baby boomer generation A high margin, nonreproducible medium (the LP) One by one, each of these five pillars…
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The Word is Bond Podcast
Check it out, my podcast is now on the first page of the hip-hop category. I’ve been working hard to bring you the best in underground hip-hop, music, and talk each and every week. I’m on the radio Saturday nights with Daddy J. Our show is called DOPEfm and you can tune it in on 93.3…
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Teaching Tip – Assessment and Marking
Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to…
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Know Your History – The Complete Third Season
Know Your History is a documentary radio show that I produce each and every month. The show is subtitled “Your Monthly Dose of Hip-Hop Knowledge” I try my best to deliver content that educates and entertains. I am a hip-hop historian and love sharing these stories about the rich culture of hip-hop with you. This…
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Kool Krys Autograph
Kool Krys is a talented rap artist. Her album, “Listen to Your Art” even made it on my Top 12 albums of 2012. Even cooler is that I have it autographed now. It was such a pleasure having her on the first roundtable discussion I ever did for the radio. It was part of our…
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Star Trek: Always Chasing the Past
Star Trek is a great franchise. It’s what originally got me started in collecting comics. I needed more Star Trek stories of the original crew. I guess we all do. Star Trek: Countdown This graphic novels serves as a prequel to the reboot of the movie franchise. There were a lot of things wrong with…
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Point Out the Positive
Larry Ferlazzo is a dedicated teacher who has a weekly practice that I can’t help but admire. It only takes a portion of his lunch time and it probably really makes someone’s day. “I walk around campus spotting students — either ones I have now or have had in the past — and they are…
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2012 – Year of the Themed Mixtape
At the beginning of last year I challenged myself to make a mixtape every single month for the entire year. 12 mixtapes for 2012! I actually surpassed that goal and made 14 of them. Click on the pictures to download or stream each mix. Enjoy the tunes! Click on the cover pictures to download each…
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This is Snow Art!
I never seen a snowman do a handstand, or a police car smile at me. Hey, that’s snow door. I mean, that’s no door. Sorry about this post. It’s no art . . . or is it Snow Art? All images courtesy of Tumblr.
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Chasing Content – The Best of January
It’s time for another edition of Chasing Content, that monthly feature that has us digging through the archives to see what was happening here on the blog last year at this time. So, click on the links below to relive some of the great moments from last year. You can also explore past posts by…