Nov
13

The Beat Beneration: The Wrath of (God) Zilla

If you do not listen to his music Zilla Rocca will invade Japan. And he will be victorious.  It’s been a long and crazy hiatus from the Beat Generation. In the meantime, this has been the busiest month in Beat Garden’s short history thus far.  We’re wrapping up Nico the Beast’s solo album No Beast So Fierce,… Continue reading »

Nov
12

Wu-Tang Returns Mix-Tape

So apparently a new Wu-Tang mixtape leaked last week while I was gone. I’m sure most of you already have it, but for the few that don’t, I’ve uploaded it so you don’t have to go through the trouble of registering with Loud.Com. Most of the tracks have already been released in some form, be… Continue reading »

Nov
12

Romancing the Stones Throw

I know I haven’t written about my week in New York yet. Tomorrow, I promise. In the meantime, I wrote a show review for the LA Times about a Stones Throw label showcase that turned into an impromptu tribute to J Dilla. Considering I’d arrived in LA just two hours prior to the show’s start… Continue reading »

Nov
11

A Return to Normalcy

At the moment, I’m captioning a photo essay on R Kelly for Metromix. No really. I’m also listening to Double Up in its entirety for the first time ever (though I have previously re-played the videos for “Real Talk” and the “I’m a Flirt Remix” roughly 423 times). But for some reason, right now, I’ve… Continue reading »

Nov
01

New York New York

By the time you’re reading this I’ll be en route to New York City. I’ll be there until next Thursday, so no blogging all next week. Sorry. But I’ve never been save for a six hour stretch I once spent at the Met and/or waiting for a Yankee game to get rained out. And I… Continue reading »

Nov
01

Cranking the Chain and Other Links

The truth is that my article on Soulja Boy for the LA Weekly probably isn’t as spot-on as the piece that Rafi Kam on for Oh Word, but what can you do? In my defense, I wrote this thing about three weeks ago and it seemed a lot timelier then. Still, I think it’s a… Continue reading »

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