This post pre-written and scheduled last Thursday, due to my disappearance to Sasquatch Music Festival! So if any huge, awesome, mind-wrecking jams came out over the weekend, you can just wait until at least Tuesday to hear about them. Yeah, I mean, it’s not too bad. I mean, it should be okay. I’m not too [Read Full Post...]
#80Dizzee Rascal – I Luv UAlbum: Boy In Da CornerYear: 2003Grime’s big break-through hit to date is a delicious-sounding piece of British hip-hop. The futuristic squelches of bass and the burbling synths encapsulate everything jarring and addicting about grime’s sound, while Dizzee tears through the track, tossing off diatribes about (what else) girls. #79Raekwon – House [Read Full Post...]
New Music Monday doesn’t get much bigger than this – check out the bounty below and get excited for the upcoming music release season! The sun-drenched Barcelona tunesmiths are back, with Subiza coming out in the US on June 8 (the damn Europeans are already grooving to it). Lead single and first track “Stay Close” exhibits everything I [Read Full Post...]
Kanye West fascinates me like no other figure in pop culture. I am always curious about his incredibly strong design sensibility, which pervades his ALL-CAPS RANTS on his blog (currently featuring only art and captions since its reboot), and which frankly led to his inability to keep his mouth shut about the brilliance of Beyonce‘s video [Read Full Post...]
Thom Yorke has been a busy guy lately. In addition to his charitable interests (currently environmentalism and saving Haiti – no objections here) he apparently still is pursuing a career writing, recording and performing music. If you blinked, you may have missed a short period last fall when a flurry of new material emerged, notably [Read Full Post...]
In a good way. A great year for electro-indie artists remixing one another (and pretty much everyone else), as remix-only EPs sprouted left and right. Here are the best of the best, with kudos to remix guru Classixx and bedroom-pop auteur Passion Pit for double hardware in their trophy case. Top 10 remixes of the [Read Full Post...]
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