By Dawoud Kringle In February 2020. I wrote a piece about TikTok. The gist of the article described TikTok‘s corporate structure as a subsidiary of ByteDance, how its marketed exclusively outside of the People’s Republic of China (by mandate of the CCP), its enormous financial success, and how it affects professional musicians. Their success is […]
An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle (Disclaimer: I respectfully ask the reader to forgive my use of ungentlemanly language.) I like movies, and am absolutely fascinated by the art of cinema. But not all efforts to produce a great (and profitable) movie go according to plan. One example of this was in 2014 when Paramount tossed […]
This is a true test for the artist. Any fool can articulate pain and ugliness, but only an artistic genius who is conscious of his or her role and responsibility to the world, can transform it into something beautiful, inspirational, and ecstatic. – An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle I never liked Kanye West, or “Ye,” […]
Jeff Beck…”nobody plays like him. The reason for this is simple: nobody can.” A Eulogy by Dawoud Kringle On Wednesday, January 11th, 2023, the music world was shocked when Jeff Beck, one of the greatest electric guitarists to ever walk this earth, succumbed to bacterial meningitis. He was 78. Sometime in the 80s, I saw […]
Ghouls – An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle “The howling of ghouls is a familiar howl drawing you to the abyss.” – Rumi For those of you who did not grow up on Vincent Price movies like I did, a ghoul is a malignant djinn from ancient Arabic folklore, and introduced into European folklore in the […]
