Tag Archives: Clutchy Hopkins

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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PR(&B)OGRESS

January 21, 2009 – 10:30 am
It’s the morning after one of the biggest and most celebrated days in America’s history. The inauguration parties may all be over. But this was not an event whose significance will soon be forgotten, nor is it a story that ends when the confetti gets swept up. No, no…All that was just […]
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“Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign”

January 13, 2009 – 10:30 am
After spending the last weeks of 2008 compiling my year-end wrap-up here on Blogarhythms I dedicated the first week and change of 2009 to drafting the more exhaustive year-in-review me and some friends put together every year over at Imageyenation. That means the last month of my life has consisted largely of sifting through […]
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Gimme a Two-Thousand-and-(L)Eight-Pass, Vol. 1: Boy Eats Drum Machine

January 8, 2009 – 10:30 am
  Yeah, 2008 is over, but I’m still discovering records that came out before the year ended. There are also a few albums I just never managed to find the time or space for during what was a very busy year on the blog. So don’t be surprised if I slip an occasional post […]
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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day One)

December 18, 2008 – 10:35 am
Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose twenty of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are the first five… In 1988 poet, teacher, philosopher and metaphysician Lawrence Krisna Parker described Hip-Hop’s talent pool as “a lot of suckers with colorful names.” He […]
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