NEW BOOK: CHECK THE TECHNIQUE: LINER NOTES FOR HIP-HOP JUNKIES
Jun 12, 2007 7:21 PM
On June 19, Random House/Villard will release Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies by Brian Coleman. Presenting never-before-told, behind-the-scenes histories ranging from influential '80s masterpieces De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising and Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back to '90s classics like the Fugees' The Score and the Beastie Boys' Check Your Head, the book's approach is one that Coleman calls Invisible Liner Notes—retracing the story of an album step by step, in collaboration with the artists themselves. Weighing in at more than 500 pages, the 36-chapter book includes interviews with 75 artists, DJs, producers and industry insiders. All in all, 400 hip-hop songs are discussed and dissected by the artists who made them. Book-release events are being planned in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco for the summer.
For more information on Check the Technique, visit www.checkthetech.com.
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