Tag Archives: Of Montreal

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

December 19, 2008 – 10:32 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 five more… Last week I got an e-mail from Asthmatic Kitty Records announcing that a certain website gave Ropechain, the sophomore album from Indianapolis, Indiana’s Grampall Jookabox a […]
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“Cheesy Rat, You Ain’t All That…” © James Todd Smith

December 16, 2008 – 10:30 am
When I was young and could care less about my Hebrew ancestors’ pronouncements against “unclean animals” I somehow talked my mother into letting me keep a mouse in our house as a pet. I also owned a cat who was, by coincidence, named after a fictional mouse. The cat and the mouse were, […]
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Hexes’ and Eche’s

December 4, 2008 – 10:30 am
A full week of December is nearly over, which means the end of 2008 is nigh. The tail end of any year is typically kinda slow music-wise. The usual flood of releases is reduced to a trickle. People in “the industry” increasingly take time off for the holidays. Folks like me […]
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The French vs. The British

November 11, 2008 – 10:30 am
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 […]
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Me and Yoome and Everyone We Know

October 21, 2008 – 10:30 am
Like yesterday’s featurees Clutchy Hopkins and Shawn Lee, Chicago-based Hip-Hop artist Serengeti is another act who made his Blogarhythms debut very early on. He’s also one of a handful of artists who’s returned to this space with some amount of frequency over the ensuing eighteen months. The reasons I’ve paid him such conspicuous attention […]
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