Tag Archives: El-P

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 […]

Pterodactyl vs. Blogzilla!

As of last week Boston’s MC Esoteric has dropped three full-length bangers in as many years. I thought Summer ’05’s markedly ambitious A New Dope (with partner 7L) was a fluke. But Egoclapper, last Summer’s solo outing, quieted most of my questions about the ten year vet’s consistency. After scoring a career landmark like […]

Travelling Through Time In More Ways Than One

When I woke up this morning I was singing the Plantlife tune “When She Smiles She Lights the Sky” to myself. I don’t know if it was the universe telling me something or if my sub-conscious was reminding me that Plantlife had a new album coming out. But either way it translates into today’s post […]