Monthly Archives: September 2007

Records at Random Vol. 22 - The Congos Heart of the Congos

Record nerds will tell you never to store your records stacked flatly one on top of another because the weight will damage your vinyl. But this is precisely how I found my mother-in-law storing her rather large collection of wax, in stacks as high as my chest in a closet in her apartment, a number […]

Vampires love Oranges

It’s not unusual for a band identified with one genre to glom on to another genre and start infusing their own tunes with elements of this new style or sound. Sometimes other bands follow suit and a new “scene” springs up, usually bearing some “clever” new epithet like “New Rave” or “Grindie.” In fact, it’s […]

“Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.”

Over the last month I’ve been preoccupied with a lot of things, most of them downers like death, uncertainty, mortality, throwing out the belongings of a loved-one, paying bills, and so-on. In between I’ve listened to lots of music, and tried to write about some of it. But stress and the aforementioned depressing minutia has […]

The Far East: Where Hip-Hop Lives?

Though they’re not “weird” in the sense that the records I profiled yesterday were, the pair of albums featured today are “weird” for another reason. Truthfully, the music on both discs is pretty straightforward, firmly rooted in the tried-and-true conventions of boom-bap Hip-Hop. What sets them apart is the fact that the artists responsible for […]

Call me “Weird El Blogovic”

As you may have already surmised, this is another one of those “weird music” posts I put up every once in a while. Now I know some of the smarter of the smartasses among my readers are probably thinking, “but Keter, aren’t all of your posts about weird music?” And while I might appreciate their […]