Crowdfunded Documentary About Cassette Tapes Needs Pledges To Hit Goal

UPDATE: Taylor and Smoot's Kickstarter campaign has come and gone. They have successfully collected the 25K they requested and will go ahead with the completion of their documentary. I'm quite surprised that they hit their target, since they were sitting at 10K the day before their deadline. Congrats and we'll keep you posted as more details become available. 

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Zack Taylor and Seth Smoot are looking to release a cool documentary about everybody's old school music consumption medium of choice: the cassette tape. If you're like me, you lived and died by tapes back in the day, recording that new hot track from your fave radio station and switching on the Dolby noise reduction on your boombox.

From Taylor and Smoot's Kickstarter page describing the project:

As recorded sound continues its love affair with the downloadable, ethereal digital file, the tangible artefact is quickly becoming a thing of the past. 

Help us celebrate the A Side, the B Side, the mixtape, and the whole of cassette culture by supporting Cassette: A Documentary. We'll look at all parts of popular culture influenced by the cassette, including hip-hop and B-Boy culture, indie rock, home recording, and beyond.

Funding platform Kickstarter is a great tool for artists to solicit cash needed to complete their vision. If you dig Taylor and Smoot's idea for this doc, head on over to their Kickstarter page and get your generosity on.

Need a little more convincing? Here's the trailer for Cassette: A Documentary.

-Paqman

In Which We Provide An Update On Elements of P&B Cool

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I got inspired listening to some old records last week. I was dying to write about it, but didn't have the context or a good reason to post up on it. So I passed it by Turnbull and we both agreed that we need to show our love for the back catalog. Least to say that we were both in like Kanye West and an "artsy" nude female photo shoot. We are proud to present the "Dig On" series, which will be a bi-weekly post that explores the classic albums that shaped our music tastes. You can expect the first volume this Sunday, and it will alternate with the always wicked Friday Flashback.

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In other news, we added a new link to our approved blog section. TheCrashCity is a great site that brings together news with a focus on Hip Hop and R&B culture. Please make sure that you head on over and show them some love!

Finally, we are going to beef up some of the pages available on the blog with some additional content, particularly the "About Us" page. Get your subscription on to make sure that you stay in loop, whether it's via RSS, email, tumblr, twitter, facebook, google+ or a good ole bookmark in your inet browser of choice.

We always love receiving comments or feedback on what we're doing, so take a minute to drop us a line (paqman@paqmanandbull.com or turnbull@paqmanandbull.com). Think we missed out on an important story? We are open to ideas for posts. Wanna see more on a specific topic? Let us know. Do you think we should be more like Perez Hilton? That will never happen. Having said that...

-Paqman

Is Beyonce A Baby-Mama?

UPDATE:  Previous reports have proven false, as B and Hov have now officially welcomed a baby girl named Blue Ivy Carter into the world on January 7, 2012.  Congratulations to both proud parents.  We'll have more on this story soon, so keep P&B on lock!

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I'm not trying to go all 'TMZ' with this, but obviously this is news to somebody.

This is only, like, the most important birth EVER.....(lol)

The Twitterverse is blowing up over the rumour, but we'll wait for Hov et ux to make an official announcement.

Click HERE to get the scoop from the Mirror UK

-Turnbull