Sampleface is 1 today and the editor-in-chief has some things to say. At 12:00am on Monday 1st October 2012, something happened. Sampleface was officially “born”. It technically started back in September but the original date is hazy as I had changed one of my old personal blogs – Live & Unplugged – so I take …
Who’s William Hall? Only one of many Michael Jackson impersonators. and our Throwback Thursday shows part of his performance back in the 80s on a Hispanophonic TV show.
MC Hammer’s appearance on Yo! MTV Raps is our Throwback Thursday this week. It was Hammer Time all the time back in the late 80s/early 90s and while the rapper/dancer/entrepreneur/part-time actor/preacher isn’t as famous as he used to be, we’re taking a look back at his appearance on Yo! MTV Raps back in 1990. Ed …
Well, this is awkward. On purpose. Here are K-tel’s Difficult-to-Strip-to Hits Vol. 1. We think the name explains itself. Life will never be the same again when you’ve seen a woman slow grind on you to the sound of Eric Clapton’s Tears In Heaven. Or maybe you have a weird urge to pay a stripper …
Back in 1999, TLC performed their smash No Scrubs at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. Here’s footage of that performance with an interview at the end. The year is 1999. People are freaking out about the Millennium Bug shutting down all the computers at the end of the year, Big L was tragically murdered and …
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Get some hip hop knowledge from this week’s Saturday Matinée where KRS One discusses philosophy and hip hop’s origins. New listeners to hip hop have the disadvantage of having a culture and its music forced down its throat by the media with little or no links to its past heritage. That’s not to say all …
Our Throwback Thursday this week is dedicated to the late great Michael Jackson on his 55th birthday. Here is his Grammy Awards Performance from 1988. First off, happy birthday Michael Jackson! The King Of Pop would have been 55 years old today and while he can’t be with us to celebrate we can sure as …
Back in 2001, Pink, Usher and Mýa paid tribute to Janet Jackson as part of a series called MTV Icon with some dazzling dance routines. Just before it clocks over into Friday, I thought I’d drop this Throwback Thursday in. I was struggling to think of something that was both old and original enough to …
Google have crafted a doodle for the 151st anniversary of Claude Debussy’s birth so we decided to look at some of his best sampled tracks. France had a rich history in late-Romantic and early 20th century (or impressionist) music, with world renowned composers such as Frédéric Chopin (Polish-born but gaining French citizenship in 1835), Maurice …