Tag Archives: Diplo

So All You Fly Mothers, Get On Out There and Dance, Dance I Say…

It’s true, Merriweather Post Pavilion surprised me with its unexpected adoption of club thump and trunk rattling shudder, easily becoming my favorite record of the new year so far. I mean I love indieternativewhateveryouwannacallit just fine, but I love synthesizers and drum-machine beats too, so a record that combines the two is more likely […]

Dusk of the Living Bassheads

Traditionally I’d look upon an “illness” like Seasonal Affective Disorder as some manner of quackery or another. On the other hand, I’ve always thought all this Daylight Saving Time-related falling back and springing forward we do every year is a bunch of malarkey. It gets dark at four in the goddamn afternoon now! […]

Bloc Rockin’ Beats

Late last week British Post-Punk revivalists Bloc Party pulled a Gnarls Barkley-meets-Radiohead, releasing their latest LP ahead of any sort of industry-approved schedule and with little fanfare via their website. You could pre-order a physical copy, which will ship at the end of October, plus a digital download that would be available immediately, for […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: DLake, Diplo & Santogold and KiD CuDi

When I started slipping posts about mixtapes into my blog repertoire last year I felt it necessary to point out that I had been turned off by the whole mixtape subculture for a number of years. Regardless of my reasons (and if you really want to know what they were, you can go back […]

Remixed at Random?

I’m in “a mood.” It’s uncomfortably humid here in my apartment. I’m bored just looking at the armload of vintage vinyl I’ve already flipped through a hundred times that’s leaning against the shelf next to my desk. And I don’t really feel like moving crates around in order to pull some other […]