TAG: hoopla
Mixtape: Punk retrospective
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on October 15, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Brian Vander Veen Not long ago, a young college student realized exactly how old I was and started grilling me about 1990s punk music, of which he was a particular fan. And it quickly occurred to me that he, thanks to the web, knew much more about the music of my teenage years than […]
Mixtape: Contemporary ladies of country music
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on September 24, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Clarissa Fidler Growing up my dad exposed me to a variety of music genres. He played everything from smooth jazz and disco to pop and classic rock. But of all the genres we listened to, one always reigned supreme—country. It probably had something to do with the fact that it was my mom’s favorite. Modern […]
Mixtape: Four metal bands for fantasy fans
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on June 2, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Brian Vander Veen Not long ago, I was lamenting to my long-suffering partner the unfortunate decline of references in popular music to fantasy literature. Although I’m too young to remember much of it firsthand, I had imagined this glorious, idealized decade or so—let’s call it “the long 1970s”—when every van was airbrushed with a […]
Tags: hoopla, mix tape, mixed tape, mixtape, music
Finding Free Music Without Getting Sued
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You on January 28, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Brian Vander Veen It recently made me feel old to realize that more than fifteen years had passed since the first major peer-to-peer file sharing service, Napster, was launched. Napster lasted only two years before it was shut down by court injunction, but it helped ignite almost a decade of contention between the recording […]
Tags: free services, hoopla, Internet Archive, music, Pandora, Spotify
Stunt Memoir: Hammock Edition
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, Prime Time on August 19, 2014 at 6:00 am
By Sheri Boggs Some people cook every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and then blog about it. Others write whole books about reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica in their quest to “become the smartest person in the world.” Me, I just wanted to lay around in a hammock. So I […]
Tags: Brene Brown, Godforsaken Idaho, Got a Girl, hoopla, Isa Does It, Our Idiot Brother, Pure Vegan, Shawn Vestal, stunt nonfiction, Xanadu
Hey, what’s hoopla?
Posted in Teens on April 24, 2014 at 6:00 am
by Sheri Boggs Updated: October 10, 2019 If you’ve been on our website or in our libraries wondering what the hoopla “hoopla” is – wonder no more. hoopla is the Library District’s new streaming media service that gives you (free) access to brand new music by Nicki Minaj, Lorde, Rihanna and more, as well as […]
Tags: digital library, hoopla, movies, music, television
