http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbhwQ1acnY0 1. Who made the decision to have an Asian Bjork clone perform a feather dance for one of the video’s main plot threads? Okay fine, we all know the answer was Rza, but really, was Erykah Badu that busy taking trips to Israel with Jay Electronica that Bobby couldn’t convince her to show up… Continue reading »
The Parson Redheads make sunny day music. I noted this in my Stylus review for last year’s King Giraffe. It is now springtime in Los Angeles and everything is 85 degrees and radiant and glowing and even dedicated cranks such as myself have trouble being unhappy in these moments. This is when the Parson Redheads… Continue reading »
Let’s be real for a moment–I don’t know much about the sound of the underground Lagos Dance Floor during the years 1974-1979. The truth is those years were a blur for me, what with the fall-out from Watergate, the quaalude abuse and my unseemly fixation with disco, Suzanne Somers, and Farah Fawcet. It was terrible.… Continue reading »
If you thought I was going to let a Ghostface release pass by with nary a mention, then clearly you haven’t been paying much attention. Not like I blame you. That said, The Wallabee Champ, Starks’ new odds-n-sods collection is strictly for completists (linx?). Certainly no one needs that “Run” remix with Jada and Weezy,… Continue reading »
I’ve resisted the Muxtape meme that’s been spreading across the blogosphere over the past month, but when Goathair of the very excellent Blowtorch blog, asked me why I hadn’t made one to entertain him at work, I didn’t really have much of an answer other than mumbling a few asides about the site being… Continue reading »
Zilla Rocca also does a mean cover of “Play That Funky Music, White Boy” I started my day here at “work” as I do any other day: keeping the lights off, drinking some Bolthouse Farms Mocha Cappuccino, and cruising the internet until my eyes open and I can be “productive.” I go to AllHipHop.com first… Continue reading »
Like Beavis & Butthead, Scott Towler enjoys using the word, erection. Whatever happened to Beavis and Butthead? It’s not like Mike Judge went anywhere. If anything, he’s only become more prolific in the past 10 years since the show has gone off the air. He penned Idiocracy and Office Space. King of the Hill is… Continue reading »
The best blues always sounds haunted. Which is probably why the Black Key’s last effort, Magic Potion seemed so disappointing.It was a little too secure, a little too safe. Sure, it was perfectly competent, even good at times, but it lacked the hell-hound on your trail desperation that their early material had so successfully channeled.… Continue reading »
At any given time, there are approximately seven tapes in my father’s car. They are as follows: Billy Joel’s, Stormfront, Bob Marley’s Legend, and greatest hits collections from Inner Circle, The Pointer Sisters, Taylor Dayne and ZZ Top. The final tape is a compilation of Israeli gypsy pop that he brought home from Israel when I… Continue reading »
I don’t know about you, but I for one have always been fascinated by the concept of what rappers do with their time off, especially the ones that never release albums. Like what do guys like William Danzini and Fizzy Womack do every day? They certainly aren’t recording. Personally, I’d always assumed M.O.P. spent the… Continue reading »
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