Oct
18

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Days and the Modest Perfection of Real Estate

Douglas Martin has a bridge in Brooklyn he would like to sell you. You’d be hard-pressed to find a single critically-acclaimed band that has garnered as much cautious praise and backhanded compliments as Real Estate. Due to their floating, easygoing nature, nobody really wants to be the critic who gives the hard sell on the… Continue reading »

Oct
17

Bleached Blanket Bingo: Searching Through the Past

To everyone’s enduring lament, Douglas Martin can’t dissect every single girl-group slanted single that slides down the information super high way. So occasionally, you’re forced to deal with me, quoting Bill & Ted, who would described Bleached’s new single as, “yes, way,” “super,” and best heard while high. Accordingly, Bleached blaze through 210 seconds of… Continue reading »

Oct
17

La Blogotheque: Hanni el Khatib, the Takeaway Sessions

Hanni El Khatib | Dead Wrong | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo. No need to reiterate the raison d’ etre of the Takeaway Sessions. The intent is obvious from watching these videos. Hanni el Khatib, whose Will the Guns Come out dropped two weeks ago, sojourns to the land of Sarkozy… Continue reading »

Oct
17

Sach O: Back to the Future – Preditah’s Delorean Grime

Sach O thinks you should have a seat. Joni Mitchell never lies: you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. Too often, special moments in musical history are swallowed by the tide of progress as producers constantly reinvent themselves searching for the next sound. On one hand it’s healthy, on the other hand fans… Continue reading »

Oct
16

Mix: Thom Yorke on the BBC 6

Had I known that Thom Yorke would celebrate the dawn of his 43rd year by spinning a two hour BBC set brimming with Badu and Madlib, Tony Starks instrumentals, Kevin Martin, PJ Harvey, and Autechre, I would probably have been an obnoxious Radiohead fan boy all along. Maybe I changed. Maybe Thom Yorke changed. Maybe… Continue reading »

Oct
14

Sach O: Odd Future – Bitch Suck Dick

Oh you mad bitch cuz Sach O‘s laying on the couch. I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about this video for a few days now but frankly, all analysis is useless. It’s a video for a song called “Bitch Suck Dick”: you already know if you’ll like this or not. For what… Continue reading »

Oct
14

Question in the form of an Answer: Thundercat

As a child, Stephen Bruner, a.k.a. Thundercat, experienced a similar upbringing to most 80’s babies. He dug cartoons, video games and music — “kid stuff” as Dave Chappelle once put it. Those hobbies become obsessions as his adolescence extended. In any other family, they might have incited a Ritalin prescription. Thankfully, Thundercat grew up amongst… Continue reading »

Oct
13

Call Ins & Hobbs

For those of you who don’t diligently monitor the Mixcloud miasma (“normals”) Mary Anne Hobbs has been dropping more gems than Prodigy and Havoc robbing a gold mine without a wheelbarrow. I’m not sure what that last sentence means, but I intended it to mean, a lot. Needless semantic complications. Below, check four of the… Continue reading »

Oct
13

Places & Kings

Shlohmo – Places from STDYHND on Vimeo. A banner day for the Wediditcollective. Shlohmo finally drops the video for the still-gorgeous “Places” off the still supreme, Bad Vibes. Meanwhile, Jonwayne releases his fourth album of the year in Alpha Pup-issued,Death of Andrew. This is where I’m supposed to quote the Mad Rapper, but Jonwayne is… Continue reading »

Oct
13

Video: Ka- “Cold Facts”

The rap world at-large first heard Ka spitting gravel on GZA’s “Firehouse,” a fitting introduction for the New York city fireman. He flows like one too, a no-frills, immediate attack. Voice like a pack of burnt matches, syllable placement as precise as his fellow brethren, Roc Marciano. See also, “We Do It,” where Ka and… Continue reading »

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