Tag Archives: Arthur Baker

“We Call it THCno!”

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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Paint That Sh*t Gold!

October 13, 2008 – 10:30 am
Hopefully some of you went out and peeped Ann Arbor, Michigan-based emcee Buff1’s sophomore LP There’s Only One when I told you to a couple of months ago. If you did you know that Ypsilanti, Michigan-based beatmaker 14KT — who is a member of both the Lab Techs producers collective and, like Buff, the […]
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Beats of Future Past

September 10, 2008 – 11:25 am
Like I said yesterday, it’s not uncommon for me to get my hands on a yet-to-be-released record ludicrously early. When that happens I usually like to hold off on posting about it until the release date is imminent so the record in question is fresh in the minds of anyone reading this blog when […]
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We Don’t Dance We Just Listen to Pants and Do the Blog-a-Way

May 27, 2008 – 11:37 am
Sometimes the sheer volume (and by volume I mean number not loudness) of music that passes through my clutches (and my eardrums) is overwhelming. I came face to face with the intimidating amount of music I deal with this “holiday” weekend, which I spent cataloging new arrivals that had piled up around my desk, […]
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