Tag Archives: Clutchy Hopkins

“Cheesy Rat, You Ain’t All That…” © James Todd Smith

When I was young and could care less about my Hebrew ancestors’ pronouncements against “unclean animals” I somehow talked my mother into letting me keep a mouse in our house as a pet. I also owned a cat who was, by coincidence, named after a fictional mouse. The cat and the mouse were, […]

Precipitated by Precipitation

As many of you may have noticed, I write about a lot of music. But even writing a daily blog as I do I still listen to more music than I could ever possibly write about. Even so, I keep notes about most of the music that I listen to. I do […]

Went Solo On That Ass, But It’s Still the Same (Kinda)

Yesterday I mentioned in passing how André Herman Düne, formerly of the Anti-Folk band Herman Dune, has changed his name to Stanley Brinks and embarked on a solo career. His solo output as Brinks doesn’t represent too big a departure from that of his old group. His songs, like Herman Dune’s, are weird […]

Me and Yoome and Everyone We Know

Like yesterday’s featurees Clutchy Hopkins and Shawn Lee, Chicago-based Hip-Hop artist Serengeti is another act who made his Blogarhythms debut very early on. He’s also one of a handful of artists who’s returned to this space with some amount of frequency over the ensuing eighteen months. The reasons I’ve paid him such conspicuous attention […]

They’rrrrrrrrre Grrrrrrrrreat!

One of the first ten posts I wrote for Blogarhythms was a post that introduced an elusive bearded musician with a questionable back-story named Clutchy Hopkins. That same post was partly dedicated to a composer, musician and producer named Shawn Lee as well. The two artists had albums out which I thought complimented […]