http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzkICG47LU Needless to say, if you don’t like “Motownphilly,” we probably can’t be friends. Granted, Boyz II Men may have not have been relevant for a decade and change, but I’ll stand by the statement that no group got more Junior High kids tongue during the years 1991-1994 than the Illadelphian vocal quartet.   Real […]

William Howard Taft. Our 27th President. Our 10th Chief Justice. A Possible Walrus. And the man behind arguably the greatest campaign theme song in history: “Get On A Raft With Taft.”  Some say that you can tell a lot about a candidate based on their choice of campaign song, and maybe in some respects that’s […]

Maybe I was a tad harsh in my Juno soundtrack for the Weekly. Among other things, I declared that I’d rather be sentenced to a Groundhog Day–like eternity with Richard Simmons, clad in an American-flag unitard, leading senior citizens in the Soulja Boy dance rather than listen to it again. I also said that I’d […]

My article in this issue of the LA Weekly attempts to parse how Lupe Fiasco has sold nearly 250,000 copies of The Cool despite a weak sales climate and his stunning ability to alienate the entire Internet. It also analyzes the question of why hip-hop fans want to get high with their favorite rappers. There […]

The best albums of the 2007 list will continue on Wednesday. If your soulless employers have forced you to work today and you’re looking for a way to kill time, might I recommend a Wu-Tang feature that I wrote in this week’s LA Weekly. It’s probably not my place to say whether it’s good or […]

So there’s this show and it’s kind of in conjunction with this pretty big story on LA bedroom indie labels that I wrote in this issue of The LA Weekly. And if you’re not doing anything Monday night you should go because it’s $10 and its going to be a fun time. I promise. And […]

T.I. tells me that big things are popping. And when T.I. tells me something I listen. Once he spoke rhapsodically about “the trap” and within 15 minutes, I had rat traps planted everywhere in my apartment. This time, the big thing poppin’ is the news that I will now be blogging for the LA Weekly’s […]

The truth is that my article on Soulja Boy for the LA Weekly probably isn’t as spot-on as the piece that Rafi Kam on for Oh Word, but what can you do? In my defense, I wrote this thing about three weeks ago and it seemed a lot timelier then. Still, I think it’s a […]

  The legend of elusive love guru, Will IM, is as long as Fergie’s humps are humpy. They tell stories of him from Argentina to Antartica, from Uruguay to the Ukraine (where, the stories are often used to wrap potatoes). After spending many moons trying to decipher his true identity, I believe I have unmasked […]

This weekend is the fourth annual Fuck Yeah Fest, two nights full of freaky, eclectic music determined to prove once and for all, that hipsters know how to fuck. Or something. I’ve never heard of 1/4 of the bands slated to play, but at the very least, they all promise to be interesting. I’ve done […]