Dec
13

This Right Here is My Swag

Seeing as though your eyes may have glazed over the 4,000 words contained within the previous post, brevity is essential. One of the highlights of the Off the Books show was Shlohmo’s remix of “Pretty Boy Swag,” which ensured that like Soulja Boy, everybody had to pay attention. It may be my favorite rap remix… Continue reading »

Dec
13

I Can’t Go To Sleep: The Most Slept-On Rock Records of the Year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upy3ZkVEdjQ Bring it back, bring it back, bring it back. Autolux – Transit Transit – [TBD] Returning to Transit squared several months after its unheralded release, I’m struck by the vast lunar spaces captured by Autolux. The veteran LA art rockers conduct their transportation exercises among nebulae and quasars, capturing a cold world of found… Continue reading »

Dec
11

Open Mike Eagle-”Haircut”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxk5lu7RDQ And that’s a pretty nice haircut.

Dec
10

When the Beat Drops: A Round-Table on the State of “The Album”

When it comes to the music industry, the wrong sales records are being set. Soundscan tabulates album receipts in steady decline since their peak in 2000 — a year when close to 800 million albums were sold. In 2009, the figure dropped to just under 400 million. This year, the week of August 8-14 witnessed… Continue reading »

Dec
09

Open Mike Eagle’s Art Rap After Party

“Everybody’s rapping, everybody’s selling clothes,  everybody’s picture taking, shooting videos…everyday in the city of LA is everybody’s birthday,” goes the first hook on Open Mike Eagle’s Art Rap After Party EP — a record that solidifies the Chicago-born Angeleno based rapper as arguably the finest (and funniest) chronicler of the seedy and mustache-marred LA underworld.… Continue reading »

Dec
09

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Sisters – “Glue”

Douglas Martin is giving you glue for Hannukah.  As far as indie two-pieces go, Sisters fall somewhere between the game-changing ambient/noise/punk hybrid of No Age and the somewhat-bland meat-and-potatoes rock of Japandroids. Carrying far more melody than the latter but far less experimental fearlessness than the former, the Brooklyn duo fills every bit of empty… Continue reading »

Dec
09

Video: Danny Byrd – Ill Behaviour

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u1vq8xI1Vg Sach O’s back once again with the ill behaviour can you feel it? Nothing can save ya. If I’m to believe the history books, a million people took fairly potent mind-altering chemicals every week in England at the height of Rave’s popularity. This goes a long way to explain why UK rave culture… Continue reading »

Dec
08

Exile-Population Control

Exile – Population Control (Remixed by Samiyam, Dibiase, Free the Robots) from gregthedude on Vimeo. Exile: the Ray Harryhausen of the MPC. Download: ZIP: Exile-Population Control (Samiyam Remix)”

Dec
08

Back to that Silicon Valley Good Shit

Zilla and I have a theory: Ghost and Rae are the Elaine Benes and George Costanza of the rap world. When one is up, the other must be down. The world’s energy ultimately strives towards balance, even Steven, lay my game down quite flat. So as Stark’s output has become rote (but still blandly very… Continue reading »

Dec
08

The Wants and Walls of The Phantom Band

Matt Shea owns The Fog on VHS. Few recent debuts have impressed like The Phantom Band’s Checkmate Savage. If you believed the hype in early 2009 – never advisable when it comes to the British music press – these Scots were Jesus Christ, the Queen and Archie Gemmill all rolled into one. But hindsight –… Continue reading »

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