Sep
06
The return of the Wayniac. Less than one month after thanking bros with a bodega’s worth of blistering beats, the La Habra headhunter unleashes enough battle rap kufi-slaps to shame a Grind Timer. Don’t believe Wayne when he says he doesn’t care. This is not brag rap for the sake of bluster. The schemes imply… Continue reading »
Jonah Bromwich’s name really needs to be added to the staff page. If you’re a certain kind of nerd, you’re going to like Exile’s new mixtape Intro to the Outro. If you’re the kind of nerd who wishes that Exile would do a project with a lyrical, possibly-underrated rapper who you realize that you only… Continue reading »
After playing “Think of You” about seventy consecutive times, I emailed Jeff at what must have been 2:30 in the morning and breathlessly praised them a little longer than I should have. He received an equally long-winded rave in his box when I found out that Bleached principals Jennifer and Jessica Clavin– formerly of Mika… Continue reading »
The Coathangers – Trailer Park Boneyard (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO HD) from Studio 8 on Vimeo. Better than adderall for those with anorexic attention spans. This video is explicitly designed to command attention for all 213 seconds — from the first sound of spray paint to the cat fight at its conclusion. The Coathangers are probably… Continue reading »
Sach O is not looking forward to Winter. Hate it or love it, Dubstep’s sonic arc makes perfect sense in evolutionary terms. Born out of the UKG hangover into an era of skunk-fueled paranoia and empty clubs, its initial minimalism was custom made for the early days of the War on Terror. Gone are the… Continue reading »
Sep
04
“Elevators” stays several hundred feet and rising in my mind fifteen summers later, on a sun-scrambled Labor Day weekend. I think it may have been exactly today when I snatched the cassette single at an obviously shuttered Sam Goody in Orange County. My parents had dragged my sister and I on some haute-haunted two-day trek… Continue reading »
Sep
04
Sach O is really getting into the Footwork-Dubstep hybrid. And full on Footwork for that matter. In an era where genre counts for little and hybridity is key, you’ve gotta make like Wu-Tang financial and diversify your bonds ‘nuh. Atlanta producer Distal knows this, coming with a sound that cleverly merges London production values, Chicago’s… Continue reading »
More Metropolis machine music. Kraftwerk on Teutonic TV circa 1970. Everyone rightfully cites Trans-Europe Express as the masterpiece, but those first three albums are worth memorizing in their own right. This song reminds me of a German tribute to the building of the trans-continental railroad and American manifest destiny by people who only knew it… Continue reading »
Abe Beame hails from Section 84. Summer ended suddenly on a Wednesday night in Tribecca when Kendrick Lamar, a self-appointed Dylan for 80s babies, took the stage at SOBs, one of the last venues Manhattan has left to a dedicated Hip Hop stage. And hip hop, in its strange 2011 iteration was in the building.… Continue reading »
Sep
01
Under no circumstances would I ever think to share a video that BEeFF made for Got Vape, the vaporizer company that tabbed Bertram Evan and Every Fucking Female to endorse their product. Like Disco Stu, I do not advertise. However, this video is more absurd and hilarious than a permed white man in a rhinestone… Continue reading »
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