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Knowledge Dropped, Lessons Taught: Mixing It Up With DJ EZ Eddie D
- by Luke Sardello
Photo courtesy of Dallasnews.com Meet Eddie Murphy. Not that Eddie Murphy. Dallas' Eddie Murphy. Most people know him as DJ EZ Eddie D, a true Dallas pioneer who has been at the helm of what is certainly the longest running hip hop radio show on Texas' airwaves, if not the...
Cool by Design: 10 of the Best Reid Miles Blue Note Album Covers
- by Luke Sardello
Cool by Design: 10 of the Best Reid Miles Blue Note Album Covers Before streaming playlists and thumbnail art, there was the Blue Note record cover — the perfection of style, rhythm, and modernism. At the center of that design revolution was Reid Miles, the graphic designer whose minimalist typography and...
The Year of Y'allternative
- by Morgan Learn
Pull up your cowboy boots, and starch your jeans because the year of y’allternative is upon us. The year of 2024 is trending towards twangy tunes, focusing on country influences embedded into alternative steez. If the term y’allternative sounds made up, that’s because it is. “Y’allternative” was coined some years ago, however its prevalence in mainstream culture has become more apparent in recent months.
Yoshimi Battles the AI Music Robots
- by Morgan Learn
Artificial intelligence has pervaded almost every interstice of our daily lives. While some deem it helpful to summarize book plots or write dull emails, others think AI to be the beginning of the end for humankind. The most recent grisly invasion is the “robot-ification” of music. Artificial intelligence programs are...

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