Tag Archives: Madonna

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Three)

  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are another five… Adorably precocious Swedish Indie-Pop chanteuse Lykke Li out-Feist-ed Canadian Indie-Folk femme Leslie Feist simply by being…well…more feisty. The nigh-unpronounceable newcomer’s initially self-released debut Youth Novels […]

Albums That Should Suck, But Don’t: 808s & Heartbreak

Something like a bazillion years ago (okay, it was more like a year and change) I tried starting a new regular Blogarhythms feature about things…Be they artists, albums or whatever…That should in theory “suck,” but don’t. I got as far as profiling rich kid son of a superstar guitarist turned superstar DJ turned superstar […]

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 […]

S**t! God-Damn! Get ON This Ass & Jam!

There are sequels, and then there are spin-offs. After initial reports that Lovefoxxx, lead vocalist of Brazilian Post-Punk dance-band Cansei de Ser Sexy, was working on a solo album after the success of her band’s debut I was living in anticipation of the latter more-so than the former. In the end, the reports of a […]

He Makes Beats Out of Wax, Not Wings

This weekend I saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army, director Guillermo del Toro’s sequel to his 2004 adaptation of Mike Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy comic. I was souped when the comic was brought to life in the first film, but I sat agape at the sequel, which improves tenfold upon everything they got right the […]