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Lil Wayne on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Platinum-selling rapper Lil Wayne is releasing something unexpected this month: a rock album. With it, he joins a long and diverse tradition of cross pollination between rock and hip hop. Today, we'll discuss rap-rock fusions throughout history, and explore what the two genres can offer each other today. Also: The dozen-member pop orchestra Pink Martini performs live in our studio.
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Pink MartiniRappers and Rockers Trade Notes
This month, Lil Wayne's long-delayed rock album, Rebirth, is finally slated for release - and though a bold move, it isn't the first of its kind. Today, we'll hear about the history of rock-rap fusion from Bill Adler, hip hop historian and former Def Jam executive, and Tavia Nyong'o, Associate ...
Pink Martini
The dozen-member pop orchestra Pink Martini continues to expand their cosmopolitan blend of styles and sounds on their fourth album, Splendor in the Grass. Musical styles jump promiscuously from jazz to cabaret to pop to world music, while songs are sung in English, Neapolitan, Italian, French and Spanish. The Portland, ...
Rap Meets Rock. Again.
Do you have a favorite collaboration between the rock and rap genres? Do you think the two genres play nicely together?
Gig Alerts: Seabrook Power Plant
Seabrook Power Plant
"Peter Dennis Blanford Townshend"
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Wayne Krantz
"Holy Joe"
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Nadejda Vlaeva
"Lesghinka"
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A Thousand Words: Free Energy at the Wired Store
WNYC photographer Jon Vachon atteneded Wednesday night's private party at the Wired store on W. 13th to shoot this slideshow (and get a few portraits, too).