Gradon Tripp

Earlier this week, Vanity Fair put out an article featuring 6 women they deemed “America’s Tweethearts”. Each of these women has garnered a significant audience through Twitter and other social media tools… but the main point the article seemed to stress was that these women were physically attractive (in addition to painting them as more [...]

Quiet Company – “It’s Better To Spend Money Like There’s No Tomorrow Than Spend Tonight Like There’s No Money”
I recently became aware of TheSixtyOne, an online music community where “artists upload their work for review, but, rather than allow a stuffy suit in a boardroom to decide what’s good, thousands of listeners do.” Since I [...]

Talk about music with anyone that grew up in the late 80s, and invariably they will express to you one absolute truth: It was the golden age of hip-hop.
Run DMC. Eric B. & Rakim. EPMD. The Beastie Boys. Their clever lyrics, combined with creative, low cost, rhythm-intensive production, brought attention to an otherwise little-known artform.
In [...]

When you think of punk rockers, what comes to mind?
A bunch of strung out, skinny white kids rebelling against any and everything, all at once?
If so, take a look at Bad Brains, circa 1979.