Monthly Archives: June 2007

Records At Random Vol. 15 - Melba Moore Peach Melba

June 28, 2007 – 4:33 pm

It’s true, I pulled 1975’s Peach Melba LP out of a bin at a local swap-meet because I thought young Melba Moore looked sexy in her little tee-shirt-and-hat combo on the cover. Once I had the record in my hands I flipped it over and saw that it was produced, and largely written, by Eugene […]

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Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: Kenny Raw Tech Supporters Mixtape

June 28, 2007 – 2:23 am

Like I said in that profile of Marshall Law not too many moons ago, the whining I did about crappy mixtapes in my feature on A-Trak’s Dirty South Dance mixtape elicited some really sweet (both in the “aww that’s so nice” and the “this mixtape is friggin’ sweet” sense) responses directing me to some worthwhile […]

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Let’s call it the Great L(Bre)ak(b)e(at)s Region instead, okay?

June 27, 2007 – 10:57 am

I’ve long questioned the logic of calling Michigan, Ohio and Illinois (which are all less than a day’s drive from New York) “the Midwest.” They’re not really in the middle of the country and are all geographically closer to the East Coast than the West. I mean c’mon… Detroit? Cleveland? Chicago? Midwest? The last people […]

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And she’s cuter than Eugene O’Neill too!

June 26, 2007 – 3:24 am

Before the girlishly vivacious but melancholic Folk-Pop of Feist’s Let It Die and the throwback Girl-Group Soul of Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, there was Nedelle’s Republic of Two. The product of a then-21-year-old singer, songwriter and musician from the Bay Area of California by the name of Nedelle Torrisi, 2003’s Republic of Two was […]

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“Young girl, get out of my mind…”

June 25, 2007 – 9:40 am

I’ve mentioned both these girls in passing here in the not-too-distant past. But since they’ve both got new singles out I feel obliged to give them a little extra shine. They’re both part of a growing crop of ethnically diverse, distinctly underground, female Rap artists who don’t necessarily fit into the traditional Hip-Hop underground scene […]

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