Author Archives: El Keter

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 8 — All of That Shuffling is Making Me Sick

April 2, 2009 – 10:30 am

There are a number of reasons why I may have woken up this morning feeling sick…The late-night walk in the rain I took yesterday could have been a factor. There’s the chance that I could have come into contact with that “stomach bug” I’ve seen everybody on the internets griping about for the last […]

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Do Young Folks “Lykke” Mushrooms?

March 31, 2009 – 10:30 am

Last Saturday L.A.-based emcee and music aficionado Micah James re-posted the video for “Run Run,” a Summer favorite from last year by Swedish girl-group Those Dancing Days, on his Facebook wall. Earlier the same day I resolved to finally delete Swedish Indie-Pop Lolita Lykke Li’s outstanding 2008 debut Youth Novels off my iPod to […]

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Shuffle Songs, Vol. 7 — Shuffle, Step, But Change…Not So Much

March 26, 2009 – 10:30 am

Since this blog’s inception a few years back London-based composer Shawn Lee has appeared in our pages no fewer than three times. His most recent appearance was of course in Tuesday’s post, where I featured his newest LP Soul in the Hole alongside metal-masked rapper/producer DOOM’s new record Born Like This. But […]

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The Sound of Your DOOM is the Roar of the Tiger, No Jive

March 24, 2009 – 10:30 am

A couple of days ago the Northern Hemisphere crossed the threshold from Winter into Spring and with the exception of a few locations hit with “freak” blizzards or anachronistically chilly blasts of arctic wind that means ski-mask season is all but over for most of us. I mean that in a strictly meteorological sense […]

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Bon Bon Vie (Gimme the Good Life)

March 19, 2009 – 10:30 am

I’m not the biggest fan of celebrity biopics, so when Notorious, a film purporting to tell the story of the rise and fall of rap star Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, was released earlier this year I wasn’t the first in line at the box office to buy tickets. I alluded to my disinterest […]

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