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Is Hip Hop losing its sting?

Hip Hop, historically, has been a draw to impressionable youth because of its anarchical and anti-establishment nature. It was a way for teenagers from all economic and social classes to rebel against authority, whether that be racial and religious intolerance within the lower classes, to rebellion towards ones parents or teachers within the middle or upper classes. Hip Hop has managed to unite all youth under one flag.

However, in this new decade, Hip Hop is losing out to other More

Sad They’re Gone: The Pixies

Sadly, I was born a few years too late to see The Pixies play live the first time around; while Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, Charles Thompson and David Lovering were out there blowing minds with their progressive, mind-bendingly strange rock songs, I thought Chesney Hawkes was actually pretty damn cool. It wasn’t until The Pixies and Nirvana had been replaced by Radiohead and Muse—not really an equal replacement by any means, it has to be said—that I owned all More

Best Music Vids - Faithless.

Let’s face it; Maxi Jazz is a pretty cool guy to begin with. He’s handsome, extremely photogenic and has a great voice for singing or for speaking. But how many people could still have managed to look so cool in this music video? Sitting on a sofa with a red snuggle-blanket round you is not a traditional way of bumping up your street cred. However, Maxi carries it off brilliantly. If you watch this enough then you will learn the More