Posts Tagged ‘John Cusack’

“Make Great Hip-Hop. That’s the Solution”: A Chat with Tanya Morgan

Brooklyn-by-way-of Cincinnati hip-hop trio Tanya Morgan, emerged over message boards and corresponding tastes. Through the magic of the Internet—well, during relatively pedestrian Internet age of 2003 that allowed for screen name-to-screen name file-sharing over America Online—rappers Donwill and Ilyas hooked up with producer Von Pea and churned out several hard drives worth of rap.
One theme-driven [...]

Lloyd Dobler, Max Bemis and the Origins of Emo

Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Say Anything..., the 1989 teen-love movie directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring John Cusack, as well as the release of Say Anything, the fourth studio album by L.A. emo rockers Say Anything.
While the band's publicist claims that the coinciding release of the two cultural artifacts is [...]