Monthly Archives: November 2007

“Bloggin’ in a Winter Wonderland!”

So, I guess it’s officially Winter. At least here in the Northeastern part of the United States. I know it’s technically not Winter until December 22nd, and it’s actually Summer, or Spring at least, in other parts of the world. But it’s been consistently cold around here, and when I wake up and see a […]

The road home from Paradise is a full circle

Before I jump into today’s regularly-scheduled-a-rhythms I want to send a special shout-out to Lifesavas, Chali 2na, Boots Riley, Mr. Lif, all the guys from Galactic, and everybody else milling about, for showing myself, Emeyesi and 12XU such hospitality at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston this weekend. I have to single out the homies […]

It’s a new day, and a better day is comin’.

This Summer I publicized my love for bands featuring both girls and keyboards in a post about New York-based duo Misha. I revisited that theme more recently when I posted about Brooklyn’s all-girl keyboard band Au Revior Simone and discribed the promo-photo (which showed them from the neck down, clutching synthesizers to their bosoms) that […]

Records at Random Vol. 29 - Everything But the Girl Eden

Despite my predilection for things “Alternative” and “Indie” I don’t own many Indie/Alternative records. Scratch that… I own a ton of Indie/Alternative records if your definition of “record” extends to compact discs. But when it comes to the classic definition of “record,” a flat vinyl disc, I own very few. This could be chalked-up to […]

The North Side of the Midwest

As the year winds down and people (even people here at OKP) look back at 2007, tallying the best and worst of the year, I’m sure the names Common and Kanye West will be near the top of a lot of folks’ “Hip-Hop album of the year” lists. That’s not unusual in-and-of-itself since they both […]