Tag Archives: N.E.R.D.

“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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Not to Be Confused With the Young Black Teenagers

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 […]

The Ghosts of Dancefloors’ Past, and Future

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 […]