Silent Cacophony
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Help Your Kids Learn from Home – An Interview with Demetra Turnbull
I had a conversation with Demetra TurnBull of Chalkboard Publishing that will be airing on my radio show Thursday. Demetra has fifteen years experience in primary classrooms and owns a publishing business that creates educational materials for parents and teachers. You can find these resources in Walmart and Costco if you want to get some…
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Looking for the Perfect Beat / Book
Looking for the Perfect Beat: The Art and Culture of the DJ by Kurt B. Reighley “A reliable DJ knows how to balance entertainment with education, underscored by his or her own individual aesthetic.” That’s a quote from this book that explores the culture of deejaying. Today we take it for granted that people dance…
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Chasing Content – The Highlights from last April
Chasing Content is a monthly feature on this blog that serves as a highlight reel of sorts. It lets us relive some old content and look back to see what was happening last year at this time. Read all of the posts from last April or just these gems. Trekkies Rejoice – Star Trek Discovery…
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The Rule of Three
Do kids really do this? “When college students go to dinner, they want the company of their friends in the dining hall and their phone. They also want the freedom to go on their phones. To have both at the same time, they observe what some call the ‘rule of three’: When you are with…
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Ghost and Laundromats Come Together in “Sheets”
Sheets by Brenna Thummler Marjorie shouldn’t have to take responsibility for the family-owned business; she’s just a teenager trying to deal with her own grief. Unfortunately, her father fell into a deep depression after the death of her mother and wasn’t able to cope. So she had to step up, make sure the laundromat work…
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New Show Intro . . . Starring YOU!
Word is Bond Rap Radio is an underground hip-hop mixshow that airs weekly on 94.9 fm in London, Ontario, Canada. For the 400 episode, I produced a new theme song for the show and did some scratching over the beat. Now, I am looking to add a rapper to the start of it. Do you…
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Rapper & DJ Dialogues in Song
Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement by S. Craig Watkins Sometimes, I read a hip-hop book and don’t learn anything new. That was not the case with this book. S. Craig Watkins drops a lot of knowledge in this book. I already wrote about some of great…
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10th Annual Women in Hip-Hop Spectacular (Tonight)
We celebrate International Women’s Day every year by shining a spotlight on hip-hop’s better half. Tonight will be our tenth annual Women in Hip-Hop Spectacular. We have mixsets, artist interviews, a roundtable discussion, a spotlight on the the tenth year rap music was recorded and all the women’s voices you could hear that year. Plus…
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MIDI Changed Everything
“In 1981, Roland developed a standard for electronic musical instruments called Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI. This was a standard for unifying the signal that connected the keyboard and sound generator. By unifying all the different types of signals that manufactures had been using into the MIDI standard, we were able to give electronic…
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Chasing Content – The Best of Last March
It’s time for another edition of Chasing Content, that monthly feature that has us looking back at the best content featured on this blog from this month one year ago. Read all of the posts from last March . . . or just these highlights Billy Danze of M.O.P. on Word is Bond’s 7th Anniversary Special…