Bring the Noise

don't cry for me Marj and Tina

an interview with Maxence Grugier for New Noise magazine, done early in 2013, on the occasion of the publication of the French translation of Bring The Noise 1/ You are one of the few who dared to confront the coexistence of black and white music in the v…

In the last week of March I’ll be in Paris for the publication of Bring the Noise by Au Diable Vauvert, and will be appearing at the Paris Book Fair and doing events at two bookstores.

a feature package at literary webzine The Nervous Breakdown on me and Bring the Noise, which is out imminently in the US on Soft Skull... elements include excerpts from BtN on the voice in pop music and on crunk, plus an auto-interview about changes in pop

The US edition, with some bonus material added, out next month on Soft Skull.

The Italian translation of Bring the Noise published by Isbn Edizioni.

The Italian edition of Bring the Noise is published on October 9th under the title HIP-HOP-ROCK: 1985-2008 and translated by Michele Piumini.

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #74] KANYE WEST Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella) Uncut, autumn 2005 by Simon Reynolds Last year, Kanye West cut through rap’s standard-issue one-dimensional personae with some refreshing complexity.

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #72] KANO Home Sweet Home Uncut, late summer 2005 by Simon Reynolds Grime has reached a crossroads.

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #71] LETHAL BIZZLE Against All Oddz Observer Music Monthly, July 17, 2005 by Simon Reynolds Lethal Bizzle has the distinction of scoring grime’s two biggest hits.

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #69] VARIOUS ARTISTS Risky Roadz: Volume 1--Tha Roadz Are Real VARIOUS ARTISTS Run the Road director's cut Village Voice, April 12th, 2005 By Simon Reynolds I’ll cut to the chase: if you can’t find anything to like on Run the

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #68] VARIOUS ARTISTS Run the Road director's cut, Observer Music Monthly, November 14, 2004 by Simon Reynolds Grime is our hip hop, the final coming of a Britrap that’s not merely a pale reflection of the original.

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #67] INFINITE LIVEZ Bush Meat Village Voice, July 6th, 2004 by Simon Reynolds For years the pathos of Brit-rap as a pale and slightly off reflection of the Real Thing was summed up in the name Derek B.

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #65] HIP HOP VERSUS THE ELECTRONICA INVASION Blissblog, March 17, 2004 by Simon Reynolds ...

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #64] GARAGE RAP compilations Village Voice, February 3rd, 2003 plus footnotes from Blissblog, February 05, 2003 by Simon Reynolds So everybody knows about the Streets now, but only as an isolated case: that unprecedented phe…

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #63] THE MOST OVER-RATED SCENES/GENRES OF ALL TIME PART 2: THE MOD/SOULBOY CONTINUUM from Unfaves 2001, Blissout by Simon Reynolds Thoughts prompted by three near-simultaneous irritations: seeing the video for Style Council's

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #62] CANNIBAL OX Village Voice, October 9th 2001 by Simon Reynolds Rap's a funny business, really.

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #61] JAY-Z, The Blueprint Uncut, autumn 2001 by Simon Reynolds This is supposed to be Jay-Z's big comeback.

Bring the Noise deleted scene #60] AALIYAH, Aaliyah unpublished* review, Village Voice, August 2001 by Simon Reynolds I was going to call myself an Aaliyah fan--after all, she's made two of my all time favorite singles, "One In A Million" and "Are You That

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #58] CEX, live Village Voice, May 2 - 8, 2001 by Simon Reynolds Cex, a/k/a 19-year-old Baltimore-based Rjyan Kidwell, is an infamous figure in the world of IDM (Intelligent Dance Music).

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #56] BREAKBEAT GARAGE a.k.a "Grime Ahoy!"

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #55] WU-TANG CLAN, The Wu Uncut, January 2001) by Simon Reynolds Wu lynchpin the RZA is almost unique in the pantheon of great hip hop producers for having not-a-lot going on rhythmically.

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #53] JIMI HENDRIX RECONSIDERED essay contributed to feature package on Hendrix, Uncut, July 2000 by Simon Reynolds Think ‘Hendrix’, and the first image that comes to mind is the onstage Jimi – a sensual inferno of improvisat…

[Bring the Noise deleted scene #52] PAUL GILROY, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line director's cut, the Village Voice, May 2 2000. by Simon Reynolds It was Randall Jarrell, I think, who took the entire oevure of Yeats, did the…