Category: Music
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“Fix your head in My Crown” – Jay-Z releases Magna Carta Holy Grail
Last night the Internet hiccupped as Jay-Z had his coronation at midnight by way of his Magna Carta Holy Grail. HOV’s new album, named after the charter that limited the powers of the monarch in 13th Century England, is also arguably one of the most heavily promoted albums of the 21st Century. The hip-hop world…
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Kanye West, Yeezus, and Andy Warhol’s “Business Art” by P. Chatelain
I feel like I need a certain disclaimer before I say anything else. Disclaimer: I am a Kanye West fan. That seems sufficient. When I saw that there was an interview on NY Times with Kanye West, knowing that his album Yeezus is coming out this week, I had to take a look. Because, with Kanye, that…
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WIN: A copy of IP Issue 3 (JAN 2013)
I’d like to invite all of you to join the Winter 2013 IP Giveaway where we will be giving out a FREE COPY of the latest issue of In Parentheses to TWO (2) lucky winners! You can get multiple chances to win by ‘Liking’ us on Facebook, and ‘Following’ us on Twitter! The form is available…
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WORD: A Night to Unite Artists (open mic)
In Parentheses will be hosting a poetry reading in Allston, MA this weekend. Tweet us for any and all information.
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Flying Lotus: Until The Quiet Comes – a Review by M. Pitter
Flying Lotus’ highly anticipated forth album, Until The Quiet Comes, emits psychedelic elegance, effervescing introspective majesty. Lotus’ experimental music oftentimes presents obstacles for a mainstream audience to approach and connect to it. Though one could surely meet a distance between themselves and an engagement with the Flying Lotus’ art, one also has the invitation to…
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The Black Lips Bring Rock and Roll to Mesopotamia by J. Levkowitz
On Saturday, September 29th, the Black Lips walked onto the stage of a small college in Erbil, Iraq. This show was a detour from their greater Middle East tour in Cairo, Amman, Dubai, and Lebanon. Had the band members not already purchased tickets to northern Iraq during the summer, the show might not have happened…
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G.O.O.D Music’s Cruel Summer: Not Everyone is Loving the Crew – a Review by M. Krenek
For almost a decade Kanye West and his team have proven their ability to utilize amazing samples from Chaka Khan’s “Through the Fire” to Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness,” and G.O.O.D Music’s Cruel Summer is no different. This collective album has a good balance of street songs versus quasi poetic numbers; unfortunately only some…
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A Call to the Public
At about the midpoint between our very successful first issue and the highly anticipated October issue, we are looking to revamp the In Parentheses brand by opening a call to new contributors for the IP Blog. We see the blog as a very important connection to our public that runs alongside the print quarterly, and…
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AfroPunk: Cutting the Color Line by M. Pitter
On the motley shores of Brooklyn, the popular notions of what once constituted black music has dissolved into ambiguity, a mass of genres, including much more than just hip hop and r&b serving as methods for musical expression by artists of African descent. The 8th annual AfroPunk Festival at Commodore Barry Park served boldly as…
