Posted on 03/12/2009
At this year's CMJ festival in NYC I was fortunate enough to meet a rep from KORG USA who showed me this cool little device from VOX called the amPlug "Headphone Guitar Amplifier."  I tried one out and let me tell you, these tiny things pack a punch!  Simply jack the unit into your guitar or bass (which runs on two AAA batteries), plug in your headphones, and blast off.  I immediately took to the...

Posted on 02/27/2009
“Jheri curl alert!” “Where the Miller High Life?” “Wake up!” When you hear Samuel L. Jackson’s voice bellow from the We-Love DJ booth or see the late Ossie Davis stumble into the Korean bodega for his preferred beverage, the wonderful world of 1980s Bedford Stuyvesant comes crackling to life in Spike Lee’s seminal film, Do the Right Thing. To commemorate its 20th anniversary, ImageNation, in collaboration with Lincoln...

Posted on 02/24/2009
If you tuned in this past Sunday, then you were treated to what were probably the flashiest Oscars of the last 20 years or so. Seems like a bold statement, but even with a few undeserving award wins, the show itself was a spectacle. Huge Jackman provided the Oscar audience with a buzz from the opening get-go that, for once, didn’t have to have a punch line. The talent from...

Posted on 02/02/2009
Remember your highschool's battle of the bands?  It's all so fuzzy but I distinctly remember the #1 hotty in the school crooning what surely couldn't have been a better version of Lou Reed's "Take A Walk On The Wild Side," although at the time it sure felt better. The girls swooned, and as I remember it the band actually kept the beat through the entire song.  Now take this basic...