| Sach O: Toots & The Maytals – Let Down | July 26, 2009 |
One day, Sach O’s gonna grow wings. One of the advantages of living in a communal hippie pad (along with all-you-can-eat hummus) is that someone will inevitably play good music that you’d never be caught dead bumping for fear of losing cool-points. True, the Easy Star All-Star’s Radiodread, a Jamaican-style re-imagining of OK Computer, could’ve been a […]
| Is That the Love Between a Man and a Woman, or the Love of a Man for a Fine Cuban Cigar? | July 26, 2009 |
Caption contest: winner receives a free pack of Black and Milds. Don’t give me any of that “too soon” malarkey. Download: MP3: Pink Floyd-“Have a Cigar” MP3: Frank Zappa-“20 Small Cigars”
| Cut Chemist On His New Album and Summer Jamming | July 25, 2009 |
In my ongoing quest to avoid asking the 1,247th consecutive musician what they hope to achieve in the future, I discussed Summer Jamz with the Cut Chemist: specifically, his love of 80s French Industrial music, Metric, and that Michael Jackson fellow. We also discussed the new album that he hopes to drop next Spring, from […]
| Nosaj Thing: Tracing the Line From Radiohead to Dr. Dre | July 24, 2009 |
A quick one before I head to an undisclosed locale that involves absinthe appetizers, scantily clad women, and Cypress Hill. I should probably watch Nosaj Thing and Daddy Kev crush the Roxy tonight, but I’m clearly striving to embody the spirit of the Los Angeles D-bag. Although, to paraphrase Jay, I could be a fedora […]
| Summer Jamz 09: Susan Wood–Word | July 24, 2009 |
Susan Wood likes summer because she tans really well and enjoys the jealousy of her much whiter, burnt and peeling friends. She also hosts ‘The Late Night Sandwich’ on BluFM in Katoomba on Sundays, 10pm-midnight AEST at www.blufm.org.au and has some blog (who doesn’t?) at http://steeplechaser1.wordpress.com Summer, in my eyes, really means dancing, and who […]
Regardless of superfluous meteorology, the new Weathermen cut, “Reports of a Possible Kidnapping,” is anything but. With Aesop Rock, El-P, and Cage together on the track, consider this both penance for the long-awaited, never-released Weathermen album (and Depart From Me, the less of which is said, the better). The second leak off Definitive Jux Vol. […]
| The Gaslamp Killer-“Anything Worse” | July 23, 2009 |
This is usually the part of the post where I unleash a litany of bad jokes involving the inanity of an artist’s name. But I can’t do that with The Gaslamp Killer, because he wields one of the most righteous monikers in music. The Gaslamp Killer–the name conjures shadowy Victorian cities, cobblestone streets, and sharp […]
| Sach O: MC Jean Gab’1 ft. Tony Allen – Black | July 23, 2009 |
Sach O thinks more emcees should spit over Afrobeat Want me to write about your new movie? Make it a Franco-African neo-Blacksploitation flick featuring a killer soundtrack, hilarious starring turn by a shit-starting French emcee, tons of explosions and a trippy psychedelic action sequence on the back end. You get all of that and more in […]
| Unskippable Songs: Honey Cone-“Sunday Morning People” | July 22, 2009 |
It might be a late Wednesday morning, but no time is a bad one to listen to Honey Cone’s “Sunday Morning People.” I’m of the mindset that Motown-influenced, Northern Soul released in 1970 on the Holland-Dozier run imprint, Hot Wax Recordings, can rarely be anything less than brilliant. And “Sunday Morning People” is no […]
| Amadou & Mariam: The Magic Couple | July 22, 2009 |
It’s impossible to explain talent like Amadou and Mariam. “Gift from god” is the trite tag to trot out, but that’s too easy. Not to play dime-store deist, but no beneficent higher being would shutter the lids of two preternaturally gifted musicians just cuz. So, it’s something else. Perhaps overcompensation from the sense of sound. […]
