United Music Scene

Jacoby Hinton on Instagram    ///    Website "Art is for everyone. And no one needs to tell you an artwork is good, if you like it, then it is good. It should be as simple as that." -Jacoby Hinton Mistah Wilson : Yo, Jacoby Hinton! It is a complete honor to have you here with us for this exclusive interview with ThaWilsonBlock Magazine. How you been? Jacoby Hinton : Hey thanks for having me! I’ve been doing well, this month has been all about reflection and looking back at the past year and seeing how far I’ve come, but also looking ahead to where I want to be. Mistah Wilson : For our audience reading this, could you paint a quick background of yourself? Jacoby Hinton : I’d be happy to, I grew up kinda all over the state of South Carolina. My family moved a lot when I was younger. After college, I moved to the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota where I taught High School Science for 2 years, then I moved to San Jose and taught Middle School art for a...

Long Island natives John Jigg$ & DJ Concept drop their first collaborative EP. Good Friday is an exercise in pure hip-hop. This album finds the duo at the top of their respective games. Jigg$ wordplay is top notch as he spits the truth on the opening track “If you play this loud enough you can hear Jesus, n!ggas frontin so I’m huntin like it’s deer season, for the rap fans ears I prepare thesis.” The opener also features some fire bars from fellow Long Islander SmooVth. As the album continues, Jigg$ make it clear from the jump “Paintin a motion picture with every scripture. John Jigg$ / Concept it’s a deadly mixture”. A truer statement was never made as he rips through the grimey banger. Next up, DJ Concept takes the mood from grimey to fly as the joint Savior Faire smooths things out a bit at the halfway point of the EP. The albums title track is up next. Jigg$ makes his intentions known “Begging for trouble I could probably promise you more of it, work the hardest at targeting al...

Whether you’ve been marketing your music on Instagram for years or you’re brand new to the platform and have no idea what “Instagram Stories” even are, this episode will help you get the most engagement (and fun) from your efforts. Plus, Kevin and Chris answer listener calls. Learn More...

"Markham brings a unique vision and voice that is yet unheard, but needed in the world of art." -Jeff Cancelosi, Detroit Artists Market  View this post on Instagram Ax On the Hammer, latest work @radarmediaservices #artforsale #illustration #rendering #fineart #instart #picoftheday #darkart #art #artist #contemporaryart #livingartist #detroit #detroitartists #bestofdetroit #indieartist #inspiration #darkness #nightmareart #earlywork #detroitunderground #painting #watercolor #detroitsbest #markham DM: radarmedia@hotmail.com A post shared by RadarMediaServices (@radarmediaservices) on Feb 2, 2018 at 6:27pm   PST

Conrad Benner, the Philadelphia native behind the six-year-old Streets Dept blog and a popular Instagram account , has turned a continued fascination with his city, deep connections to the street art community, and a great eye into a long-running document of a fertile street art scene. While New York often gets credit as the birthplace of graffiti and street art, Philadelphia, a city with a large population of students and a world-renowned city mural program, has both a huge contemporary art scene and a deep history of street art. Darryl McCray, or  Cornbread , who is considered one of the progenitors of street art, made his name tagging around the city in the late ‘60s, and even made the papers for writing “Cornbread Lives” on an elephant in the Philadelphia Zoo. Read More & View Gallery

Nick Turpin has been around the block, quite literally. He's been a practicing street photographer for nearly 30 years . But times have changed—so much so that Turpin now prefers the term "candid public photography" to differentiate his art from the increasingly ambiguous genre of street photography. Turpin estimates that there are at least a thousand photographers roaming the city's streets today, compared to the four or five photographers capturing London's urban life when he started—all of whom he knew. Today, many use smartphone cameras they can fit in their pockets; some young people may never own an old school point-and-shoot. Turpin remembers what street photography was like in the 1990s and early 2000s, before the iPhone and Instagram and Flickr made photo-sharing ubiquitous and gave rise to the everyman photographer. But changing technology isn't the only striking difference: Over the past 30 years, cities themselves have become more hostile to street...