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Rachel A. Brown’s ’10 first music venue was her bathroom. Her first audience was her MacBook. When she first began recording herself singing and playing guitar, she says a secluded hiding spot was the only kind of performing environment that she felt comfortable with. A lot has changed since then...

Author: By LI S. ZHOU, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Rachel A. Brown | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

Brown, herself, is a legend in the making. Her forays into music began when she purchased a guitar during her gap year after high school. But her creativity was alive and thriving long before that. “I was always into making stuff,” she says. “Ever since I was small, no matter how it manifested itself, I would make something...

Author: By LI S. ZHOU, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Rachel A. Brown | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...guitar-smashing episode occurred in 2007 after a crowd of Muslim punks were thrown out of the Islamic Society of North America's open-mike night. They had shocked attendants at the meeting - North America's largest annual Muslim gathering - not just by cranking up their amps, swearing and screaming their lyrics, but also by having a woman sing onstage. In the documentary, young women in hijabs are shown staring open-mouthed at first, then rocking out and yelling, "Stop the hate!" The concert then comes to an abrupt halt when the meeting's organizers, backed by Chicago police, step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muslim Punk Rock: A Mashup of Piety and Politics | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

When Jimi Hendrix smashed his guitar in the 1960s, it was clear he was attacking the Establishment. When a Muslim punk rocker smashes up a guitar outside an American Muslim convention, the now-standard rock 'n' roll trope gains a few new meanings. These young punks are taking on every establishment going: Muslim, American and Muslim American. "In this so-called war of civilizations, we're giving the finger to both sides," says the godfather of the Muslim punk movement, Michael Muhammad Knight, in Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam, a new documentary by Pakistani-Canadian director Omar Majeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muslim Punk Rock: A Mashup of Piety and Politics | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...most popular game on Facebook--65 million unique monthly players and growing. It is also the furthest place imaginable from the seedy underbelly of the Internet. It's a hamlet where the sun always shines, crops always grow and your friends drop by to do chores accompanied by plinky guitar music. Its astonishing popularity is a testament to the potential of gaming on social networks. Social games promise the golden pork-chop combo of the addictiveness of computer games with the communality of Facebook and MySpace. And they generate some of their revenue from product come-ons, which is where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubling Rise of Facebook's Top Game Company | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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