by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Media
While a lot of the future soul crowd has been (rightfully) mourning the death of Slum Village MC Baatin, another afrofuturistic luminary passed over the weekend. Charles Huntley Nelson was a visual artist, experimental film director and proffessor at Morehouse in...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Writing
Alright, I’ve been thinking about this for the last few weeks as I’ve been rewinding the hell out of Jay Z’s latest and I want to get a couple things out of the way from the jump. 1) Autotune is hella overused and kind of annoying after the 50th...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Music, Writing
Alright, this is depressing as fuck. I first heard the news as a rumor between two cats outside the corner store about 4 hours ago on my way downtown. “Yo, you heard Michael Jackson died?” “Naw, man I heard that was just a rumor.” A small lump...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Media, Music, Writing
Right now the music biz is living somewhere between the Blade Runner future and the Kitty Hawk past. On one side we’re at the dawn of a new tech age and battles to determine the shape of what’s to come are being waged on all levels-from the indie foot...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Music, Writing
This is already snowballing into something bigger. I woke up this morning to the usual coffee, smokes and words and an article I’d been meaning to get to for a while. Back in March, over at Esther Ivereem’s excellent Seeing Black site, black American...
by Boothism | Arts & Culture, Essays & Commentary, Media, technology, Writing
When Mark Amerika created Grammatron 16 (?) years ago, who knew it would take the rest of the world so long to catch up? Still, you have no idea how exited this article in the NYT makes me-enough to get me blogging again after umpteen months. It’s always annoyed...
