Tag Archives: Public Enemy

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: Girl Talk Feed the Animals

I live in an apartment that doubles as an office, a recording studio, a storage space for all manner of media, an art studio and a textiles workshop. As you might imagine this doesn’t make it the most opportune location to entertain visitors. For this reason m. Cody and I only rarely invite […]

Who Got Ectoplasm On My Trumpet?

I hope you all had a relaxing Monday, because yesterday’s blog activities, while tranquil and beauteous, failed to keep the peace and instill the quiet in my day. The crack of thunder, the clash of personalities and financial insecurities could give fuckall about pretty songs so they all ganged up to make my Monday […]

Bring the Noise Quiet?

This weekend some friends and I mounted a short roadtrip to Worcester, Massachusetts to attend a “silkscreen workshop” at the HBML Junk Shoppe. Basically this means we watched a guy silkscreen stuff on other stuff that we and other people brought in to the store and then browsed through the vintage clothing, comics, zines, […]

Love, Hugs, and Hip-Hop-Soul

Hip-Hop as a culture isn’t known, either by its active participants or outside observers, for an abundance of hugging. Oh sure, physical contact of every stripe, from violent altercations to illicit sexual encounters, have been given microphone-time by countless emcees over the years. But how often does the word “hug” pop up in […]