Kanye West On South Park April 8, 2009
South Park has been maddeningly inconsistent of late, but stuff like this reminds you why they’re the best. What really seals the deal is the animated inauguration crew. I still love 808s and Heartbreak–sometimes, I think it’s a personal failing. I think comments are out of order. I’m working on it. Via 2Dopeboyz Download: MP3: […]
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Few bands are more difficult to write about than Black Moth Super Rainbow. The inherent writerly impulse is to lapse into cliche, whilst invoking the words, “mellotron,” “psychedelic,” “Flaming Lips,” and “bubble-gum.” I’ve done it on multiple occasions, and like bubble gum itself, there’s something stupid about explaining why you like it–you just do. Pitchfork […]
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In my ongoing quest to latch onto trends two years too late, an entomological obsession with The Bug persists. What can I say? To paraphrase Lars Highmael from Party Fun Action Committee : it makes me want to speed on the highway. Accordingly, I have a Coachella preview of The Bug ft. Warrior Queen up […]
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I don’t have much to add that Dom and Zeus haven’t already articulated, and honestly, I feel bad heaping derision on Eminem. From 1999-2003, no one, save for Ghostface had a better run, but seeing as though this is a blog, and Eminem remains the last of the video stars, I’m obligated to toss off […]
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When you own one of the most heavily sampled catalogues in hip-hop history, it’s something of a no-brainer to streamline it into one easy-to-access anthology. Accordingly, Concord Music Group, who re-launched Stax in 2007, are attempting to cash-in with this very well-curated starter’s guide. If for some reason, you don’t know about Stax, Netflix Wattstax […]
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Ignore the numerics that tend to overshadow all things Pitchfork, and Ian Cohen’s review of Tentacles,  accurately illustrates why three out of four L.A. bloggers prefer Crystal Antlers. “Antlers are a heavy and especially loud psych-punk band, but they lack the outsider cachet of metal or noise; their psychedelia is more shaggy than dreamy and they’re […]
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Shooting hoops, while listening to The Fix on a Friday spring afternoon=one of life’s greatest pleasures. Accordingly, the WC-featured, “I Ain’t the One,” made me want to revisit, “The One,” from the Maad Circle’s Coolio-less, Curb Servin.  It’s a great song, made greater by Crazy Toones’ accomplishment: the only DJ  to ever successfully impersonate “Snagglepuss” […]
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  Image via Metal Faced Initially, the combination of the Radiohead frontman and the metal-faced villain, seems incongruous. Upon closer examination, it’s perfectly natural: two insular, brooding weirdos, whose music reflects a constant, centrifugal  tension with the world around them. Consequently, Yorke’s “Gazzilion Ear” remix manages to make Doom sound even more warped and eccentric […]
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Monomono are Ill April 2, 2009
Despite a reputation as one of Nigeria’s most successful and best Afro-Beat boom bands, information about Monomono remains scarce on the Internet. Even the normally dependable, All Music Guide, lacks a bio on the three-piece outfit. I’ll presume it’s due to Google searches yielding results on “the kissing disease,” not Monomono’s definition in Yoruba: Dawn […]
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Kode9’s Dubstep Haze April 1, 2009
To offer a strained analogy, consider Kode9 the Peanut Butter Wolf, to Burial’s Madlib. The mastermind behind Dub Step dons, Hyper Dub, the Scottish-born producer named Steve Goodman receives less acclaim than his Mercury Prize-nominated meal ticket, but remains one of the most vital players in the drum and bass and dub-descended, sub-genre centered in […]
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