I spent this morning watching a live stream of a conversation with Def Jam Recordings founders Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin presented by the New York Public Library and facilitated by Paul Holdengraber the library’s Director of Public Programs. They were there to chat about 25 years of Def Jam and to support the release [...]

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?uestlove by Nizam Uddin Frida Kahlo by Libby Rosof Hobos by Michelle Aziz Joey by Dave Parker “Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive.” ~Gerard Way “Well there is that common misconception that punk was this negative nihilistic thing, but that was never what it was about. It was [...]

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