anti-pop

Black Milk's brand is built on tightly orchestrated, hard hitting, anti-pop beats, but his performance on Sunday at U Street Music Hall showed that he also deserves consideration as the best producer currently on the mic.

In concert: Black Milk at U Street Music Hall Rhome Anderson 2011

"Everybody Loves Our Town" by Mark Yarm tells the story of how this hostile, anti-pop sound from a smallish city briefly became the most popular music in the world.

The Seattle Sound Ken Kurson 2011

I'm anti-pop or, perhaps frustrated at the fact that anybody who can afford to buy a dSLR can claim that he's a photographer.

Going Old School Even More 2009

This is Sinatra at the opera, bring a blonde … Prof. WANG: Despite his disdain for Auto-Tune, Jay isn't anti-pop.

Jay-Z Stays Fresh On 'The Blueprint 3' 2009

While I take some of M. I.A.'s more militant themes with a grain of salt (there is a certain irony in hearing the lyrics "All I want to do ... is take your money" at a decidedly anti-pop sort of event) it wasn't lost on me that perhaps we're turning the corner musically and culturally towards accepting the rest of the world as an entertaining possibility.

Paul Nair: This Year's Best Music: M.I.A? 2008

With a career track record comprised of doing exactly what he wanted to do and receiving hyperbolic pop-appraise (and making a vocal point about announcing said action and said result), Kanye did the only thing Kanye could: He made an anti-pop album.

Brandon Perkins: HuffPost Review: Kanye West -- 808s & Heartbreak 2008

He's very anti-pop, and that's something he didn't want to know about.

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH 2007

Paulus' work blends curious concepts with anti-pop craftsmanship using methods and forms that seem at once refreshingly alien and old-world; in his Skeletal Systems pieces, acetate is laid over parchment paper on wood with a faithful rendering of the cartoon character on top and the skeletal structure inferred from their outward appearance, an exercise that renders the cute playfully grotesque and the plastic and Platonic utterly corporeal.

Archive 2006-07-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006

Browne was generally considered to be an anti-pop influence on the Eagles, “Take it Easy” notwithstanding.

Lean Left » Blog Archive » Christmas Lyric of the Day 2006

Oh, and I am also anti-pop culture, like Pseudo-Adrienne!

What distinguishes each form of feminism from the other? 2005