The FreQ Show Vol. 1
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When I first ran across this on Jay-Z’s Life and Times site, I was both drawn to the concept of immortalizing such an apparatus of music history and also thinking “Don’t all boom boxes look the same though?” I may have been born in the 80s, but started paying attention in the 90s; so I’m of the walkman era and boom boxes just weren’t an everyday occurrence.
Having looked through a few pages and the video below tis crazy some of the styles that were put out back in the day; and that for most part they are just going to go to waste. So shout outs are in order for Lyle Owerko for his collection and putting together this fantastic book.
I spent my formative years in Atlanta, thus Creative Loafing was required reading, f0r those that don’t know, think of it as the Atlanta equivalent to LA Weekly, but better. So before you made your way down to Little 5, The Tabernacle, or The Underground, you knew what was going down.
Long story short I often hit them and Maurice Garland regularly to stay up on the latest happenings in the city thats got my heart. Every year they put together an excellent issue dedicated solely to the music emanating from the city. The latest was no doubt one of the magazine’s strongest. Atlanta has been bubbling over with new talent recently that are now gaining public awareness and Creative Loafing did a great job of bringing it all together in this year’s edition.
Dropping Links to all the choice content:
The Making of Outkast’s Aquemini
Black Lips’ Jared Swilley with Waka Flocka Flame
Constellations’ Elijah Jones with Dreamer of Hollyweerd
