March 6th, 2008
The guys in Heroes for Popular Wars describe themselves as two musicians, a video artist and a MFA candidate at Pratt, who live in Brooklyn, trying to make gauzy but hooky, electro-acoustic music. We improv a lot with computers, mix choruses with dance-y beats, use found sound collages and processed-to-the-hilt guitars and try to use volume and noise as well as notes to move people.” Oh post-modernism, where did we go wrong? Still, I’m digging their sound and this video is pretty cool in a lo-fi sort of way.
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February 24th, 2008
Haven’t thought of this cut from The Panther soundtrack in over a decade. In hindsight, it’s got to rank among the best posse tracks ever. I mean Biggie, Bone Thugs, Coolio, Busta Rhymes, Redman, Ill Al Scratch, Big Mike and Buckshot? Gadzooks. Granted, it has neither Rick Ross threatening to tip over a speedboat nor Khaled shouting “We the Best,” but it’ll have to do.
Download from The Panther Soundtrack: MP3: Notorious BIG, Bone Thugs, Coolio, Busta Rhymes, Redman Ill Al Scratch, Big Mike, Buckshot-”The Points”
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February 20th, 2008
I’m back from Puerto Vallarta where I was forced to suffer the half-horrific, half-hysterical spectacle of watching a bunch of oversized American frat boy wiggers (sideways caps, “La Coka Nostra” t-shirts) alternately perform the Soulja Boy dance and make “swish” motions while listening to “We Fly High.” Not even touching the various other sundry feats of douchebaggery that they performed on the scantily clad women that abounded. I’m pretty sure I saw things that have been outlawed in several ultra-conservative Midwestern counties. Needless to say, the weekend left me vaguely convinced of the impending downfall of the American empire yet after coming home and watching the video from English rap group, Red Hot Entertainment, I am pleased to announce that we’re all going to Hell. Whether, we’ll go in in a hand basket or not, I remain unsure. To be honest, I’m more of a backpack guy. Regularly scheduled programming will resume tomorrow. In the meantime, ladies and gentleman, it’s “Junior Spesh.” Because Britain obviously needed its own, “Fry that Chicken.”
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February 5th, 2008
Am I the only one who’s always found Kid Capri annoying?
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January 27th, 2008
Jeremy Fish is brilliant and Aesop Rock’s videos are better than your favorite rapper’s. Sorry, but this is true.
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January 23rd, 2008
Re-watching it a decade later, I’m pretty sure it might be.
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November 20th, 2007
I know I know. The Passion of the Weiss is fast turning into Def Jam’s How Can We Promote the Big Dough Rehab So That It Doesn’t Brick With 40,000 copies sold in its first week (a feeble strategy if there ever was). Sorry. Truth is I couldn’t resist posting this, especially considering I was actually at this show at the HOB LA. Plus, if you’re reading this blog, I assume you also find few things more entertaining than a Ghostface rant. Besides, what else am I supposed to write about, how the new Cam’ron mixtape finds him trying to rap over every soft Mid-70s MOR rock staple he dug out of Hell Rell’s moms crib. Call me crazy, but I’ll pass on listening to 2-plus hours of Cam and Freekey Zeekey rhyming “chinchilla” with “Killa” and “gorilla” over the instrumental for “More Than a Feeling.”
Download:
MP3: Ghostface Killah-”In the Rain a.k.a. Wise”
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November 11th, 2007
At the moment, I’m captioning a photo essay on R Kelly for Metromix. No really. I’m also listening to Double Up in its entirety for the first time ever (though I have previously re-played the videos for “Real Talk” and the “I’m a Flirt Remix” roughly 423 times). But for some reason, right now, I’ve become convinced that “I’m a Flirt” might be the single of the year. All this despite the fact that T.I. is the blandest rapper in rap history abd T-Pain seems less like a pimp than he does horny space alien. The epiphany has left me deeply concerned with what this says about my taste but more troubled by what the song’s existence means for humanity.
Download:
MP3: R Kelly (ft. T.I. and T-Pain)-”I’m a Flirt Remix”
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October 30th, 2007
Jamie Radford gives the people what they want: hilarity and strange reptile masks. This is like of an emo-rap version of the Land of the Lost. Not bad at all.
Download: Jamie Radford & Clean Guns-”Tuba Thump”
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October 7th, 2007
Not like I’m not trying to give you advice, Kells. But y’know, your girl might think that you were with those girls in the club because 92 percent of your album is dedicated to the concept that you get “freaky in the club” and that “you’re a flirt.” Real talk.
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