Tag Archives: El-P

The Cool, the Buff, the Dark and the One With Glasses

Another one of my favorite acts, Queens, New York emcee Cool Calm Pete, dropped a new sort-of single earlier this week. It’s a laid-back dedication to Summertime indiscretions with the fairer sex set to a soulfully dilatory trot of a beat a catchy vocal sample called “Gitty Up Baby” and is available as a […]

For Losers as Well as Super Stars

I spend so much of my time digging through obscurities that I often don’t hear about what’s going on well-established artists until the last minute. My underground fetish withstanding, this may have something to do with general skepticism of the things people in the entertainment industry say about their future products. I guess […]

Bring the Noise Quiet?

This weekend some friends and I mounted a short roadtrip to Worcester, Massachusetts to attend a “silkscreen workshop” at the HBML Junk Shoppe. Basically this means we watched a guy silkscreen stuff on other stuff that we and other people brought in to the store and then browsed through the vintage clothing, comics, zines, […]

Music To Survive a Robot Uprising To

So far this week’s class of Blogarhythms graduates has included a “keyboard band” that doesn’t play “robot music” and a couple of True-School Hip-Hop revivalists who added synthesizers to their arsenal without sounding like the latest retro-electro bandwagon jumpers. And although one of the latter asked us to “Do the Robot In Cyberspace,” their […]

Records at Random Vol. 52 - Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society Nasty

Only rarely has the true randomness of my crates come to the surface on these Records at Random Fridays. But today’s featured record, Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society’s 1981 sophomore release Nasty is is one of those really random pieces of wax from my collection that I don’t think I’ve ever even […]