Tag Archives: Mgmt

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 7 — Shuffle, Step, But Change…Not So Much

Since this blog’s inception a few years back London-based composer Shawn Lee has appeared in our pages no fewer than three times. His most recent appearance was of course in Tuesday’s post, where I featured his newest LP Soul in the Hole alongside metal-masked rapper/producer DOOM’s new record Born Like This. But […]

The Long Lost MSTRs of the KRFT

When I walked out of the Best Buy at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside on a weekend afternoon in 2001 with a copy of singer Res‘ debut album How I Do I had no idea I’d still be talking about it some seven years later. Yet and still, here I am doing just that. […]

The Colo(u)rful Clango(u)r of Blu and Sin Fang Bous

As some of you probably noticed, there was no Blogarhythms post yesterday. No, this was not the result of some unusual affection for former US presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln that prevents me from blogging on their designated day of honor. But it was the start of what will be a new—hopefully […]

“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 […]

The French vs. The British

Like I said yesterday, the search for new and unproven talent–and the flood of wannabes in that respect–continues in a seemingly never-ending fashion. But there are a few established–both very well established and not-so-well established–artists I consistently check for regardless. The name Pharrell Williams–along with that of his partner Chad Hugo–is one of […]