We weren't intending to take the whole summer off, but...shit happens.

We're back, though, with a continuation of Episode 6, where we celebrated Black Music Month and essentially posited the theory that ALL music is Black Music.

For this episode, we are joined by Sandy Loam, a multi-disciplinary musician and a member of several bands. She offers her unique perspective on Black music and her experience as a performer of multiple genres.

Show notes are below, and we SWEAR we won't keep you waiting so long in the future!!

• Follow Sandy Loam and her various projects on Instagram

@sandyloamsandy 

@thaauntiediaries 

@myabyrne

@swanrealmusic

• Re:Set Festival

https://www.resetconcertseries.com/

• Philip Glass - Akhnaten

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten_(opera)

• Steve Lacy Disaster Tour

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/steve-lacy-disaster-tour

• Mya Byrne - Come On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epoGg2_dNlU

• Dear Culture Podcast - (Episode 52 w/ Rissi Palmer)

https://thegrio.com/podcasts/dear-culture/rissi-palmer-explains-the-highs-the-lows-and-the-racist-undertones-in-country-music/

• “Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music” by Nadine Hubbs

https://www.amazon.com/Rednecks-Queers-Country-Music-Nadine/dp/0520280660

• Amanda Marie Martinez -The Industry is Playing People Cheap:Race and the Country Music Business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAkDhbdNObQ&t=628s

• How Racism Became a Marketing Tool for Country Music w/Amanda Marie Martinez

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/1191405789/how-racism-became-a-marketing-tool-for-country-music

• For Love & Country Documentary

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Country-Mickey-Guyton/dp/B09RQPZ5VT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=334PMBEJP6NRR&keywords=for+love+and+country&qid=1654200725&s=instant-video&sprefix=for+love+and+country%2Cinstant-video%2C228&sr=1-1

• “Still So Excited” by Ruth Pointer

https://www.amazon.com/Still-So-Excited-Pointer-Sister/dp/1629371459#:~:text=Editorial%20Reviews-,Still%20So%20Excited!%3A%20My%20Life%20as%20a%20Pointer%20Sister,to%20their%20long%2Dheld%20prayers.

• Whitney Houston Boo’d @ Soul Train Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHtJu19qPhg

https://www.gawker.com/remember-when-whitney-houston-got-booed-for-being-too-w-1660783143

• Witch House genre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_house_(genre)

• Meshell Ndegeocello latest album

https://store.bluenote.com/collections/meshell-ndegeocello/products/meshell-ndegeocello-the-omnichord-real-book

• Rock the Bells Lawsuit

https://pitchfork.com/news/ll-cool-j-wins-rock-the-bells-trademark-lawsuit/

• Guerilla Union “Rock the Bells” Documentary

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800181/

A: All music is Black music.

In honor of Black Music Month, two Black music nerds (Jermaine & Mike) discuss how musical genres have become racialized over the years--and why those restrictions are slowly falling apart in the 21st century. We talk about everything from discovering seminal Black rock bands like Bad Brains and Living Colour to finding out that the banjo and fiddle (among many instruments) have roots in Africa. Along the way, we discuss cultural appropriation and what that means, talk about the increasing number of Black faces in country music, and we pay tribute to the genre-bending Queen of Rock and Roll, the late, great Tina Turner.

Show Notes:

• Tina Turner

https://www.the-world-of-tina.com/story.html

• Black people invented every American Music genre

https://vincedixonportfolio.com/app/black-music-history/#:~:text=Family%20Tree%20of%20American%20Music&text=The%20research%20shows%20that%20nearly,is%20a%20very%20flexible%20genre.

• KISS-FM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS-FM_(brand)

• Frankie Crocker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Crocker

• Country vs. Western

https://jagannathr.medium.com/what-is-the-relation-between-country-and-western-music-8439052b1f85

• Black History of the Banjo

https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/black-banjo-reclamation-project-african-roots

• History of the Harp

https://www.harp.com/history-of-the-harp/

• Zeal and Ardor - “Row Row” Live from 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1PTAOBHBKA

• Origins of “Zeal and Ardor”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/6wqvnb/zeal-and-ardor-interview

• Bristol Music Scene and Trip Hop

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/01/31/142607358/local-groove-does-good-the-story-of-trip-hops-rise-from-bristol

• How Babe Ruth’s “The Mexican” became a b-boy anthem

http://jesse-serwer.com/babe-ruth-the-mexican/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Sure, we just did a Queen Latifah episode. But who's to say when and how often we wanna go to the well?

For this episode, Jermaine and myself (joined by fellow music nerds Ali Elabaddy and Woody Black) get into a wide ranging discussion about the Native Tongues posse, the Afrocentric rap collective that counted Latifah amongst its ranks. It also includes the legendary groups De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, the under-heralded Jungle Brothers, and a sea of other emcees and groups.

And here's your show notes!

Journey Into Sound #5 Show Notes

• History of the Native Tongues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XhBWa9ogDU

• The New York Times Presents: The Legacy of J Dilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8jnNE5fMgg

• Mobb Deep - Trife Life (actually produced by Havoc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IEnYwGSIG0

• Norman Conners Sample - You Are My Starship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2HNjfeaj4

• “Got ‘Til It’s Gone” Controversy

https://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2946883&mode=full

• Jungle Brothers breakdown Native Tongues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OPQGDxIQIA

• De La Day from Webster Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwsxrG31XAk

• Bonita Applebaum (Hootie Mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8cbzERFuBo

• Project Blowed Documentary Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOv0v_fxJKc

• This is the Life Documentary Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTNrb3Bln9A

• Nas, De La Soul and the start of Underground HipHop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycXyyA8-K4

• The Whatnauts - Help Is On The Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJMgexFopg

• Fat Larry’s Band - Act Like You Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImRXjgr4dbs

• This is not the Real Native Tongues

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Wx06JBjcDsBtBFLOuqZhW

• BET refusing to air videos

https://thegrio.com/2011/07/21/is-bet-in-the-business-of-silencing-smart-hip-hop/

• Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

https://www.amazon.com/Beats-Rhymes-Life-Travels-Called/dp/B005LM7KP0

• Seaman’s Furniture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr-bjcccnhI

• DJ Maseo presents The Dugout

https://www.twitch.tv/djmaseo

• RapCaviar Presents

https://www.hulu.com/series/rapcaviar-presents-70051bf5-0c01-4d92-8e3d-48f14533fb5b

Mike and JC are back with a new episode of Journey N 2 Sound, and the weather is warming up and concert season is about to be LITTY.

Even as concert tickets rise into the near-unaffordable, we still are itching to check out our favorite artists on the road. We share our fun concert experiences and also examine the plight of the touring musician, especially in 2023. To top it all off, we are joined by our friend Tamara as our very first guest.

She is also a certified concert junkie, AND Tamara went to the infamous Woodstock '99, y'all! She has a lot to say about that experience.

Show notes below!

• Madonna and Aging Gracefully
  

• Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99 (Netflix Series)
  

Rapper. Singer. Actress. Mogul. Queer icon. Queen Latifah (who celebrates her 53rd birthday this week) is all of that and more. She's lasted in the entertainment biz for three decades, blazing a trail in multiple disciplines. In this episode, JC and Mike break down the Queen's accomplishments, from becoming the first solo female rapper to win a Grammy to her Oscar-nominated achievements in film and her current run as the lead on one of network television's highest rated shows.

• Does Calvin have a link?

Indeed he does! Calvin Williams composed the show's theme, and you can follow him on IG right here.

• Arabian Prince talks about JJ Fad
  

• Latifah’s boyfriend shot in carjacking
  

• The history of gay rappers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWM25n3ZwCg

• Rappers from Newark, NJ
  

• Gucci Ad with Iggy Pop, Tyler the Creator, and A.S.A.P. Rocky
  

• Jermaine was definitely wrong!!! It’s not Lauryn Hill…
  

We're back with an episode that focuses on the institution that is the Grammy Awards (quick note: this episode was recorded before last week's ceremony). We talk about our histories as award show consumers, and we go into detail about what we feel are the three most egregious errors made by the Recording Academy voters over the years.

We also sidetrack/tangent into topics including the Beastie Boys' early 2000s VMAs win, KRS-ONE's often contradictory opinions (about everything really, but in this case, specifically about what constitutes hip-hop), and the Hot Mess (TM) that is Kanye West in 2023.

Don't hesitate to leave feedback and subscribe!

• KRS-One: Is it hip-hop? - https://youtu.be/m0fyYQO1L-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxsJ1uiHek

What was the first album you owned? Now, it may not necessarily be the first album you bought. This is the case for JC and Mike, who talk about their childhood experiences as music fans with assistance from, respectively, Whodini's seminal hip-hop classic Escape and Stevie Wonder's groundbreaking Grammy winning Album of the Year Innervisions. 

Here are links to some of the stuff we cover on the pod:

• Here Comes the Judge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDl_hEue0-M

Stevie on Musikladen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmJ3Q7SfHE