Digital Crates: NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

I love music. And I love great ideas around how to package and share music. The evolution of technology has both totally disrupted industries as well as provided the tools to be able to share great music. In creating Digital Crates on this site, I have tried to share what I come across while traversing the world of the interwebs, albeit inconsistently. The non-profit NPR hosts Tiny Desk Concerts, which is  a simple yet powerful concept – bring in artists to perform in a corner of their offices and film them. The intimacy of the performances place the spotlight firmly on the music...

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Win An Anthony Hamilton Hamper

I have a hamper of four Anthony Hamilton CDs to giveaway as a follow-up to my interview with and blog post on his latest album Back To Love. The hamper, courtesy of Sony Music Africa, consists of the following four CDs: Comin' From Where I'm From           Ain't Nobody Worrrin'            The Point Of It All             Back To Love           To win the hamper, answer the following question as a comment: Name two producers that Anthony Hamilton worked with on Back To Love. Please note: This...

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Anthony Hamilton – True Soul Man

Some moons ago, when I was a teenager, we would put together mixes on cassette tape (yes, cassette) for our romantic interests, incorporating songs that expressed our feelings much better than we could. Or we would phone, put the handset up to the speakers and press play. This was also an era where there were generally regular segments during the course of a party where the DJ would switch to slow jams for some up close dancing. In mainstream music today, it is getting harder and harder to find music that you could do the above with unless you are working to bypass hello and head straight to...

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