Hip Hop Karaoke Championships – NYC
Posted by on February 11th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
What is Hip Hop Karaoke? Think of normal karaoke, take away the bouncing ball above the song's words displayed on a screen. Take away the words themselves and then invite entrants to get up on stage an perform selected hip-hop songs from memory. In reality this is nothing like Karaoke. Its not cheesy or clumsy but was sometimes painful and slightly embarrassing watching some performers - and these were the best from around the nation at the 5th annual Championships.
The songs of choice fo...
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Skyrocket Love – Or Something Like That
Posted by on January 31st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
The four days spent in LA were a mixture of days spent driving the city looking for architectural highlights (which were hard to find, but total gems when I did) and nights spent going from gig to gig with an up-and-coming LA pop rock band I was staying with called Skyrocket love.
Pop/Rock is certainly not my kind of music but it certainly gave me an interesting side of LA and by the end I was surprised that I even kind of liked their music (kind of). I hoped that the music industry still...
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