Tag Archives: Jamie Lidell

“Keys Open Door…Key-Keys Open Doors…”

The pair of acts I’m going to introduce you to today are sort-of a holdover from yesterday’s entry discussing Neptunesian Pop music. Neither of them are signed to the Star Trak label. But both are well-versed in the keyboard and drum-machine-powered method of neoteric transposition of the grooves, melodies, chords, instrumental flourishes, songwriting […]

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 […]

My Church Is a Streetcorner

I like to think my close identification with my Hebrew heritage is obvious to anybody paying close attention. But I learned a long time ago not to make a big deal out of religious matters in public, so people I meet are sometimes surprised to discover I’m a profoundly religious individual. Granted I […]

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 […]

Lunch @ 45RPM’s

I closed out yesterday’s post with a surprise video clip from one of my favorite new Hip-Hop dudes of the year, Saint Louis, Missouri’s Black Spade. When I originally bigged up homeboy’s debut album To Serve With Love I likened my reaction to it to my reaction to hearing the Below the Heavens, the […]