{"id":247,"date":"2007-12-19T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T07:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:34:21","slug":"detroits-hippie-punk-print-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2007\/12\/19\/detroits-hippie-punk-print-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"DETROIT&#8217;S HIPPIE-PUNK PRINT PALACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"urb bokbeat.jpg\" id=\"image246\" alt=\"urb bokbeat.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/urb%20bokbeat.jpg\" \/>Clocking in at #83, Book Beat was name checked in the 150th issue of <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urb.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">URB Magazine<\/a>,<\/em> a glossy bible of hip-hop culture and &#8220;a manifesto of (our) music and life.&#8221; <em>URB magazine<\/em> is a lively jumble of articles and ads that focus on  urban music and the fashion world without the snob appeal.<\/p>\n<p>URB&#8217;s founder Raymond Leon Roker writes a very cogent editorial on his 150th anniversary in which he shares some thoughts on publishing a magazine  in this age of digital mass media;  &#8220;I can&#8217;t be bothered  with all of this conventional wisdom and unimaginative doom and gloom&#8230; I&#8217;m more excited about print &#8211;and this magazine &#8212; then I have been in a long while.&#8221;  We couldn&#8217;t agree more. Passion and bullheaded focus will keep the most imaginative and radical works alive for years to come, be they magazines, books, music or hippie-punk print palaces.<\/p>\n<p>The Nov\/Dec <em>URB<\/em> holiday issue  runs down the 150 things they love most which includes; #42 Amoeba records, #50 The Hollywood Bowl, #58 Supper Rad Toys, #104 Red Bull, #120 Street Walkers, #130 DC rapper Wale, #125 Chicago&#8217;s rainbow colored party scene. We&#8217;re blushing red. Check back soon for Book Beat&#8217;s <em>25 things we love for 25 years.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clocking in at #83, Book Beat was name checked in the 150th issue of URB Magazine, a glossy bible of hip-hop culture and &ldquo;a manifesto of (our) music and life.&rdquo; URB magazine is a lively jumble of articles and ads that focus on urban music and the fashion world without the snob appeal. URB&rsquo;s founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbeat-shop-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}