Global Beat:The Hip-Hop Diaries: Tunes

Monday, November 07, 2005

Tunes

In keeping with my mood today, here's a little Mary for you all. (From her new album "The Breakthrough.")

Tara Henley is a freelance journalist in Toronto, Canada who specializes in hip-hop music, culture and style. During the past five years, she has published more than 350 articles in Canadaâs largest urban weekly, The Georgia Straight. Henley has also published with Vancouver Magazine, The Globe and Mail, DOSE, POUND Magazine, and The Guardian (U.K.). In 2005, she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and spent much of the year traveling and doing research for her upcoming book, Global Beat: The Hip-Hop Diaries. Tara does a weekly hip-hop column at XXLmag.com called Northen Touch. She also has a regular column with Pound Magazine.