Feb
28

Wooden Shjips Cover Neil Young’s “Vampire Blues”

Continuing “Excellent Contemporary Bands Covering Canonized Songwriters Week,” I present psychedelic drone deities, Wooden Shjips, rendering Neil Young’s “Vampire Blues” in druggy, dirt-splattered fashion. Fans of On the Beach will scarcely recognize the original within the distorted, hallucinatory coffin Wooden Shjips construct for Old Shakey’s ode to eco-conservation (no “Drill Baby Drill”). Now if they’ll… Continue reading »

Feb
27

I’m Tired of Fools Asking Me if M.O.P Stands for Muppets on Parole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OH0wlkfbc The original gay rappers. [Via A Way Between Voice and Presence] Download: MP3: M.O.P.-”Ante Up”

Feb
27

Remember me? Eminem’s cracked comeback

Originally published at Pop and Hiss No need to paraphrase any dog-eared dogma about there being no second acts in life — reality television torpedoed that Fitzgeraldian fallacy faster than any lacerating Hemingway quip. Hell, if Flavor Flav could smoke unidentified foreign objects for the entirety of the ’90s and reinvent himself as a reality/sitcom… Continue reading »

Feb
26

Hey Joe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAr0CX9Dr0 This is why the Internet was created: to watch the video for Joe Public’s “Live and Learn,” interspersed with old NBA blooper reels featuring Sedale Threatt, Mark Price, and Georghe “My Giant” Muresan. For those who malign hip-hop’s current cross-pollination with rock, I point to Joe Public and say, it could always be worse.… Continue reading »

Feb
26

The Hold Steady Cover Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City”

 Photo via Spin Off the War Child: Heroes Compilation . Try to stifle the obvious, “b..b..but every Hold Steady song is a Springsteen cover,” cracks–the sonic breadth of Stay Positive proved they can do a lot more than replicate the E-Street shuffle. Besides, this track is from Nebraska, the Bruce album for people who don’t… Continue reading »

Feb
26

LA Weekly: B-Real of Cypress Hill: Smoking “The Birthday Cake” With a Master

Expect a Cypress Hill rarities post sometime soon. In the meantime, the title of this piece says it all. Getting baked with B-Real via a contraption called “The Birthday Cake.” My 14-year old-self was proud.  I think the only way I can top this for him is if I record a rap song with Jay-Z.… Continue reading »

Feb
25

Smokin’ ‘Dro–Try These On: Xtreme(ly Lame) Sports

Sandro Colacicco smokes dro, chops O’s, rides dirty, and his candy paint looks purty.  I’ve been doing some strange stuff recently–reading Lolita at odd hours of the night in seedy diners, cooking ethnic food in grotesque quantities, and perusing vintage porn (don’t check out the porn re-enactment of Hair). I also grew a goatee and… Continue reading »

Feb
24

Collective Soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lVst3Jx5Y Re-enacting vintage Yo MTV Raps! on a Tuesday afternoon, with “That’s When Ya’ Lost It” and “93 Til Infinity” back-to-back. In hindsight, there was really nothing occluding Hiero from developing into a West Coast Wu-Tang, rather than the upper middle class man’s Boot Camp Click. Certainly three-time all-stars (93 Til Infinity, Fear Itself, 3rd… Continue reading »

Feb
24

LA Times: Live-A Suit for Ma Dukes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9M0n-YBQIk The first hour of Mochilla’s “A Suite for Ma Dukes,” was solid if not soporific. But when the surprise guests started rolling out, events rapidly turned memorable. Pos and Talib Kweli performing “Stakes is High.” Bilal, AmpFiddler, and the guy in Sa-Ra who doesn’t wear leopard, singing the hook on “Runnin,” backed by an… Continue reading »

Feb
23

I Refuse To Watch the Academy Awards Until They Make Up For Their Snub

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfA2MuUJDyI See also. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCEp9CSpaiA Stiles is due for some Jackie Earle Haley comeuppance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMyuv3wkTJs There is a Free Darko post waiting to be written about the transcendent skill and swagger of teenaged werewolves. Scott Skiles modeled his entire career after Scott Howard. And for fun, en espanol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cfx7V5e-8Q I guess this means Mickey Rourke should’ve… Continue reading »

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