Tag Archives: Santogold

Records at Random, Vol. 77: Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons Beggin’: The Ultimate Collection

This week I and my impeccable taste in footwear assisted my best friend m. Cody in purchasing a much-needed pair of new sneakers. She in turn used her discount connections to assist me in obtaining the first of what will have to be many much-more-needed shelves in which to store my many vinyl records. […]

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 3 — Tricks ‘N Treats

Randomer than a Friday Records at Random post, it’s another special “El Keter’s got way too much music and only so many days in the year to write about it all” Shuffle Songs post! First up…New Orleans-via-Hollywood duo The Knux dropped their debut Remind Me In 3 Days this week. I wasn’t sure what to […]

The Secret Life of Bloggers

Denizens of the blogosphere often seem to be engaged in a constant battle for content exclusivity and “I heard it/posted about it first” one-upmanship. This often leads to blogs running features on artists who have little to no actual output, in either commercial form or that of downloadable demos, available to the public and […]

Latin Lingo, Baby!

All this talk of electro-acoustic hybrids, the fusing of analog and digital instrumentation and the fusion of human emotions & mechanical rhythms has been fine and dandy. But sometimes beats just need to be beats! Even when those beats masquerade as “songs.” And yes, even when the composer of those “songs” calls […]

“Repent Ye; For The Upsetter Is at Hand!”

It shouldn’t have gone unnoticed that over time I’ve profiled a few records produced by legendary Dub producer Lee “Scratch” Perry in this space. I’ve also invoked his name on numerous occasions even when he wasn’t directly involved with creating the music under discussion. The frequency of his appearances in my writing is […]