Tag Archives: N.E.R.D.

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: DLake, Diplo & Santogold and KiD CuDi

July 28, 2008 – 11:00 am
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 […]
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Not to Be Confused With the Young Black Teenagers

July 21, 2008 – 11:47 am
In the movie business Summertime is the season for sequels. The past two weeks have borne that out as sequels, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army and The Dark Knight, dominated the box-office. But more and more it seems like the music industry has latched on to this practice too, because it feels like […]
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The Ghosts of Dancefloors’ Past, and Future

July 7, 2008 – 10:53 am
As predicted, my “holiday” wasn’t exactly what I would call celebratory. The sky of my neighborhood was almost constantly alight with illegal fireworks being lit in back yards for blocks in every direction. But I didn’t purposefully watch a fireworks display of any sort. And while a few folks did eventually turn […]
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We Don’t Dance We Just Listen to Pants and Do the Blog-a-Way

May 27, 2008 – 11:37 am
Sometimes the sheer volume (and by volume I mean number not loudness) of music that passes through my clutches (and my eardrums) is overwhelming. I came face to face with the intimidating amount of music I deal with this “holiday” weekend, which I spent cataloging new arrivals that had piled up around my desk, […]
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“Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this blog presupposes is… maybe he didn’t.”

April 16, 2008 – 10:48 am
Though it makes me feel like a passenger of genius canine Mr. Peabody and his bespectacled sidekick Sherman in their WABAC Machine I just couldn’t resist profiling another contemporary artist whose work is a tribute to the aesthetic of yesteryear in today’s blog. Hailing from Athens, Georgia, birthplace of many an alternative and independent music act, […]
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