Admittedly, I’m still not finished listening to the second week of Mary Anne Hobbs Vs. The Volcano, Or I Got Stranded in LA and All I Got Was This Lousy Podcast, but I suspect that like last week, it will go down as one of her finest shows of the year. Hobbs calls a mix… Continue reading »
May
06
Back in the halcyon days before daily blogging burdens meant that I could devote seven-day stretches to waxing rhapsodic about the merits of Cleveland fast rap, I devoted an entire week to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (this is what the search option to your right is for). There are obviously other contenders, but for my 4-0 and… Continue reading »
May
06
As a new generation of Grime producers emerges emboldened by Dubstep and Funky, the genre’s emcees are still facing the same old dilemmas. Stuck in between crossover aspirations and a desire to remain hardcore, Grime emcees remain almost as out of place in today’s pop landscape as they were when the genre first began emerging… Continue reading »
Unlike Kevin Costner, Douglas Martin did not sleep with Cal Ripken’s wife. Baltimore is not well-known for being a sparkling-clean metropolis. After all, this is the city which served as the backdrop for The Wire, one of the grittiest shows on television. However, it does seem like the perfect little city to be an… Continue reading »
May
05
Jay Electronica is not the messiah, but he is messianic. His mission is to bring “the game back.” I do not believe that the game needs to be saved. And even if Electronica was the savior, no one would ever believe that Puff Daddy would have anything to do with his return, unless the new… Continue reading »
Lest I cannibalize myself (and not in the inspiring Alive way), should you have any interest in reading my thoughts on Nocando’s excellent “Hurry Up and Wait Remix,” I will point you in the direction of my Sam Zell-owned feudal overlords. The concise version is that its arguably the best morning commute anthem since “9-5ers… Continue reading »
Sach O’s on his 13th OZ – quite baked. There’s been a lot of fist shaking in this site’s secret forum (where we eat gorgonzola while listening to the UMCs, and plot Wocka Flocka Flame’s downfall) at Wiz Khalifa’s Kush & OJ. I like it, Jeff doesn’t and really we’re both right. Khalifa is simultaneously… Continue reading »
Douglas Martin has traded in his guitars for a sampler, shutter shades, and an Urban Outfitters dress shirt to be named later. I’m not sure if you all received the memo, but chillwave is kind of a big thing right now. With Washed Out touring with Beach House and Neon Indian teaming up with Mountain… Continue reading »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knN5n7DaWq4 A belated but well worth it visual for what we declared was the 30th best rap song of 2009. What I said then: “A weary, spiritual affirmation of life in the face of sorrow, “Wonderful Life,” works in binary. In his trademark nasal twang, Tre invokes the pain of his friend whose father passed… Continue reading »
Thanks to a savage flu that left me near collapse at a 7-11 in Monterrey Park (glamorous), I missed Mulatu’s Timeless Performance from last year. Thankfully, Quantic has released his live DJ set from the evening, a mix consisting of all original vinyl excavated from the record bins of Addis Ababa. Empyrean horn sections, organ… Continue reading »
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