Andrew Whiteman, lead guitarist of Broken Social Scene is a smart man. I don’t know this for a fact. For all I know, the guy could be the Ralph Wiggum of Toronto. But I do know that at the very least, Whiteman was very savvy to pick the stage name, Apostle of Hustle. Why? Because… Continue reading »
So let’s just say hypothetically that you had a blog, a lazy Sunday to kill, a package from Sampson Simpson eying you longingly and the burning desire to reenact the Box’s video line-up from late 1992, where do you think you’d wind up? That’s right. You’d watch yourself a little Bell Biv DeVoe, you’d watch… Continue reading »
So in my efforts to catalogue the finest white rappers of all-time, I stumbled across many many photos for each artist and in the process, I have become convinced that Aesop Rock and Matisyahu may in fact be long lost cousins. There are several reasons besides a vague but definite physical resemblance 1) Matisyahu has… Continue reading »
In the past year, as seemingly every blogger and music journalist rushed to anoint Ghostface the greatest thing since Jello Pudding Pops (myself, being particularly guilty), they’ve overlooked the fact he might not even be the most consistent rhymer in the Wu. Sure, in terms of sheer charisma and personality, Ghost arguably trumps any MC… Continue reading »
Silverlake is trendy. This obvious thought rang through my head loud and clear on a windy Monday night as I stood in a line that snaked arond the block, outside of Spaceland, waiting to catch new Merge signees, The Broken West, in the midst of their monthlong January residency. And it wasn’t just the bone-chilling… Continue reading »
In what is believed to be the first fatality ever attributed due to anxiety for an album leak, blogger Eugene Wilhelm of Seattle, Washington has passed away at the tender age of 24 years old. While medical professionals attribute Wilhelm’s death to several blocked arteries that stemmed the flow of blood to his heart, those… Continue reading »
Subtle are catnip for music critics. The actual band that fulfills the oft-spoken, rarely true cliche: they make “future music.” Indeed, the Oakland-based hip-hop/rock/electro six-piece makes music so forward-thinking it’s effectively genre-less. Just when an earth-shaking electro-bass groove reels you in, Dose One spits a tongue-twisting rap verse reminiscent of his Scribble Jam freestyle competition… Continue reading »
The Shins have an album coming out next Tuesday but you’d never know it if you only read music blogs for your news, considering most of them have kept mum about the record since its leak last October, thanks to Sub Pop’s subsequent buzz-crushing decision to call in the blog police for some good ol’… Continue reading »
Every single January 1st brings the same thing, an avalanche of New Year’s resolutions from optimistic souls vowing that this year will finally be the one that they put their gym memberships to good use. Which is all well and good but it inevitably means the worst time to work out is each January through… Continue reading »
Since this blog began in November of 2005, I’ve wasted a great many words alternately lauding and criticizing new music. While that’s all well and good, there are only so many truly exceptional albums that come out in any given year. With that in mind, today marks the beginning of a new weekly feature: The… Continue reading »
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