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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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Shuffle Songs, Vol. 6 — Change (From One Song to Another) You Can Believe In

January 29, 2009 – 10:30 am
The new for 2009 shit is stacking up and I’m still trying to get caught up on some 2008 standouts that I may have neglected. Which is why you’ll find a slept-on release by a Cali space-cadet from last Fall, new records from a Left Coast “alternative” Hip-Hop originator, a boy/girl Synth-Punk duo and an […]
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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Three)

January 5, 2009 – 10:30 am
  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 […]
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Beats for Your Face (Or Lack Thereof)

December 10, 2008 – 10:30 am
So much for chilly temperatures and pretty powdery coatings…All of a sudden it’s a balmy 60 degrees outside with intermittent rain and it’s windy as a sonovabitch! So, what sort of soundtrack does a grey-skied, puddle-packed, wind-blown Wednesday deserve? I’m thinking something moody and changeable, that suits the days’ melancholy caste but still […]
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“Just Got Paid…Friday Night…” © Johnny Kemp

December 3, 2008 – 10:30 am
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. […]
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