Tag Archives: Exile

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 8 — All of That Shuffling is Making Me Sick

April 2, 2009 – 10:30 am
There are a number of reasons why I may have woken up this morning feeling sick…The late-night walk in the rain I took yesterday could have been a factor. There’s the chance that I could have come into contact with that “stomach bug” I’ve seen everybody on the internets griping about for the last […]
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Esoteric’s New Instrumental Record is (Norrin) Rad(d)!

February 9, 2009 – 10:30 am
I spent much of last week lamenting Hip-Hop’s current state of affairs and singling out a few artists as exceptions to the rule of diminishing quality that governs the artform now-a-days. So it’s only right that I begin this week in praise of one of the few contemporary Hip-Hop artists I happen to consider […]
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Countrymusicdiscosouldubalbum (No, It’s Not a Parliament or Isaac Hayes Song Title)

January 26, 2009 – 10:30 am
The first month of the year may be close to finished, but I’m only just now feeling like 2009 has really started. The new releases are really beginning to pile up fueling my anticipation of what’s to come in the next eleven months. In Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion I’ve found my first […]
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A Self-Imposed Exile to the Radio Dial

January 19, 2009 – 10:30 am
If you took anything away from my post on The Notorious B.I.G. last Friday I hope it was about his legacy. The way he died was heartbreaking, and instrumental in cementing the association between rappers and violent deaths in the popular consciousness. And his admittedly small catalog, comprised of one-and-a-half classic LPs (I […]
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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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