Tag Archives: Lil Wayne

“Just Got Paid…Friday Night…” © Johnny Kemp

Every day musicians I could give two shits about put out new albums. Their music gets played on the radio. Their videos get played on television, or watched on YouTube, or wherever the fuck people actually watch videos these days. Their face appear on the covers and in the pages of magazines. […]

So Many Records / So Little Time

In my write-up on Chairlift’s new album from Tuesday’s “shuffle” post I shared a glimpse of the lack of awareness of my own music collection that I sometimes face. What’s even more absurd than realizing I’ve been regularly listening to a song all my friends have been asking me to find them for months […]

Records at Random Vol. 65 - Stanley Clarke School Days

At the start of the week I mentioned that Summer vacation was over for the children in my city and they were (loudly) returning to school. A day or so after that I listed some of the musical minutia I happen to count myself devoted to, bass being among them. So why not […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: 100dBs and DJ Mekalek

Yeah, it’s another one. And no, when I started this “Mixtapes I Don’t Hate” shit I never thought it would become this regular of a feature. But the sheer profuseness of original, diverse “mixtape” projects hitting the scene seems to me like a fantastic indicator of just how healthy Hip-Hop is as an […]

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 […]