January 30, 2009 – 10:30 am
Earlier this week I inadvertently got into a lengthy wall-to-wall conversation on Facebook with JON?DOE—a longtime college radio jock and rappin’-ass mofo—about the effects of digital downloading on phonograph culture. We’re two very different kinds of diggers, so of course we have radically different opinions on the subject. And while we didn’t see […]
January 29, 2009 – 10:30 am
The new for 2009 shit is stacking up and I’m still trying to get caught up on some 2008 standouts that I may have neglected. Which is why you’ll find a slept-on release by a Cali space-cadet from last Fall, new records from a Left Coast “alternative” Hip-Hop originator, a boy/girl Synth-Punk duo and an […]
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Tagged Built By Snow, Dudley Perkins, Eagle Nebula, Factor, Flosstradamus, Freestyle Fellowship, Georgia Anne Muldrow, John Robinson, K.M.D., M.F. Doom, Matt & Kim, Myka 9, Scienz of Life, The Cars, Tokyo Police Club
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January 28, 2009 – 10:30 am
With all the pomp and circumstance surrounding Barack Obama’s historic win in November’s election and subsequent inauguration last week I forgot to mention that Question 2—a ballot initiative to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana that came up for vote in November here in Massachusetts—was overwhelmingly approved by voters and went into effect this […]
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Tagged Animal Collective, Arthur Baker, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Bob James, Cybotron, Eliot Lipp, Giorgio Moroder, John Robie, Just-Ice, Kraftwerk, Mantronix, Tobacco, Whodini
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January 27, 2009 – 10:30 am
Favoritism towards an album that marries hippie-hearkening Pop to mutant club beats and a single that revives Boz Scaggs-esque country-boy Disco is one thing, but the love I had for the Disco magic revivalism of last year’s self-titled debut from Hercules and Love Affair was something else entirely. I mean, chunky club beats or […]
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Tagged Antony and the Johnsons, Antony Hegarty, Björk, CocoRosie, Ella Fitzgerald, Hercules and Love Affair, Jimi Hendrix, Martin Hannett, Nina Simone, Prince, Robert Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Sylvester, The Cure, Tim Goldsworthy
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January 26, 2009 – 10:30 am
The first month of the year may be close to finished, but I’m only just now feeling like 2009 has really started. The new releases are really beginning to pile up fueling my anticipation of what’s to come in the next eleven months. In Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion I’ve found my first […]
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Tagged ?uestlove, Adrian Sherwood, Afrika Bambaataa, Animal Collective, Ari Up, Bill Monroe, Bobby Caldwell, Boz Scaggs, Charlie Rich, Exile, George Jones, Harry Belafonte, Jeb Loy Nichols, Larry Levan, Leonard Cohen, Merle Haggard, Neneh Cherry, Sade, Terence Trent D'Arby, The Rascals, The Slits, Tom T. Hall
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