Category : Music

Pondering graffiti | The Highland County Press

By Jim ThompsonHCP columnist One of the blessings those of you living in the rural delights of Highland County experience is a relatively low exposure to graffiti. Often seen on train cars, Highland County’s low exposure to railroads keeps this scou...

Picture this: Scotland’s thriving street art scene

Here’s where to find some of them. LEITH The Port of Leith has carved a reputation as an artistic quarter of Edinburgh, with a network of large scale murals, including its Leith History Mural at Great Junction Street and Ferry Road. Cr...

From blank canvas to tourist hotspots, how murals bring unexpected benefits to cities

Now it’s emerged that murals have a much broader role to play beyond just brightening up sometimes dreary town and city centres. National tourism body VisitScotland says Glasgow’s crop of murals are stirring up rising interest among tourists t...

From walls to runways, how street art is redefining high fashion

If you found yourself lost in a crowd during the Fashion Week in London, and stumbled upon graffiti that says “fassion is my pashion”, you’d have something in common with the person in Mumbai who might have come across a piece of street art in the s...

Where the heart is: Graffiti artist Sicovecas seeks home in every space and color – Art & Culture

17-year-old paves her own path to success with dance studio

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Many 17-year-olds are using this time to look for colleges, figure out their next steps in life and just getting ready to graduate high school. One Louisville teenager, however, is already taking that next step, paving...

‘The Hip Hop Nutcracker’ plays Mahalia Jackson Theater on Nov. 29

Kurtis Blow loves Christmas. So much so that when the then up-and-coming New York emcee was approached in 1979 about appearing on a Christmas-themed rap song, he went for it. And “Christmas Rappin’” became his debut single. Co-written with producers...

The Source |Hip Hop Law, Crime and Justice: 5 Hip Hop Legal Cases on Horizon NOT Involving Diddy

The link between Hip Hop and the criminal justice system along with civil litigation has always been there, unfortunately, but as the music’s most prolific and culturally relevant genre continues to rise in influence, it feels like more and more arti...

YSL Rapper Yak Gotti Has Multiple Charges Dropped In RICO Case: ‘See Y’all By Christmas’

YSL rapper Yak Gotti is celebrating after seeing three of his charges dropped in the long-running YSL RICO trial, which he says could see him out of jail by Christmas. In a post to Instagram on Thursday (November 21), Yak shared a photo of himself in...

Nas salutes Kendrick Lamar for keeping Hip Hop alive

Image Image Credit Lester Cohen / Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Nas, Kendrick Lamar Image Size landscape-medium Image Position center Kendrick Lamar said that he wanted to “watch the party die,” but the release of GNX and the fl...

Ashtabula rapper bringing urban wear to Main Avenue with launch of MPG Apparel

#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } ASHTABULA — A new clothing store, MPG Apparel, is set to open on Main Ave Dec. 1, offe...

Exhibition of uprising graffiti begins at Drik

Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, among others, holds the copies of the book titled ‘Paint Your Sky, Make it Yours: Future Bangladesh in the Eyes of the Youth’ on the opening day of an eight-day photography and video exh...

Traverse City Mural Festival Planned for 2025

Following positive responses from both artists and the public to several recent local mural projects, the Traverse City Arts Commission (TCAC) is planning to bring a new weeklong mural festival to the city in September 2025. At least five artists a...

LA Times Today: L.A.’s. new graffiti wars: A bold generation of taggers hitting high-profile targets

Nov. 22, 2024 8 AM PT Call it art or call it vandalism – graffiti can be found on nearly every street in L.A. But there’s been a change in the city’s graffiti culture. The targets of the taggers have gotten much bigger as street artists try to m...

The Source |Lola Brooke Drops New Single “Go To Yo Head”

Today, Platinum-selling rapper Lola Brooke (Team Eighty Productions/Arista Records) unleashes her new song, “Go To Yo Head.” The anthemic, unruly track finds the breakout emcee in her lyrically-savvy element, delivering poignant punchlines to match...