Word: underground
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Move over, Moby. If underground hip-hop artists like DJ Shadow once felt threatened by RJD2’s runaway success, they can rest assured: for RJD2, electronica is the new hip-hop. Philadelphia DJ RJD2’s third solo release, aptly named “The Third Hand,” is more of the same but less of the old. That is, the album is still distinctively RJD2, but in his latest release the turntable auteur moves farther away from his hip-hop roots and toward a more indie sound. On first listen, the mellow beats...
...this movement involved the cultural development of Girl Power, originally exemplified by the no-holds-barred Riot Grrrl and later by a series of pop-stars (Spice Girls, anyone?) as a commercial strategy to sell music and clothes. It’s difficult to imagine a time when the underground prevalence of feminist political magazines bearing titles like “Diabolical Clits” and “The Adventures of Baby Dyke” was groundbreaking. The concept of women drawing empowerment from platform heels has long past reached its expiration date. The Riot Grrl has taken...
SEPA, admittedly, is not a full-fledged ministry. The drive to improve safety in coal mines, by contrast, has had backing from the very top for years. In 2003 Premier Wen Jiabao celebrated the Chinese New Year by eating dumplings with miners 2,300 feet underground. When he visited their homes and families, Wen called for improvements in mine safety. Wen has stayed involved in the issue, regularly expressing concern for miners and their families and once tearfully instructing officials to learn "lessons drawn in blood." Indeed, within days of the Zuoyun accident, the Premier met with rescuers and called...
...that Wareham is best known for: his voluminous, often dark musical arrangements. Instead, the duo opts for a lyrical world “where the clouds are made of candy-floss” and a sound to match that choice. This foray from a sound akin to the Velvet Underground into one much more suited to Captain and Tennille leaves a sickly feeling in the pit of your stomach. But don’t worry if the album flops: Dean and Britta assure us that “our love will still be there.” Maybe that?...
...even ballooned into the later work of Le Corbusier, the Ur-modernist himself. "It never went entirely away," Kaplicky insists, and he's right. But on the whole, and for a long time, it was straight lines that carried more authority. For decades contours endured a kind of underground existence. Anything too curvy risked looking kitschy. Like Jayne Mansfield...