Tag Archives: Stevie Wonder

Dear Q-Tip; Thanks for Not Sucking

December 15, 2008 – 10:30 am
One thing music lovers of every stripe can agree on is that they just don’t make ‘em like they used to. The cliché holds true for both today’s artists and the veterans of the olden days who are still around, and is applicable to music regardless of genre. No matter how much I […]
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Beats for Your Face (Or Lack Thereof)

December 10, 2008 – 10:30 am
So much for chilly temperatures and pretty powdery coatings…All of a sudden it’s a balmy 60 degrees outside with intermittent rain and it’s windy as a sonovabitch! So, what sort of soundtrack does a grey-skied, puddle-packed, wind-blown Wednesday deserve? I’m thinking something moody and changeable, that suits the days’ melancholy caste but still […]
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There’s No Snow In Lagos

December 9, 2008 – 9:49 am
In deference to the ever-icier weather conditions observed outside my place of residence yesterday’s post featured a band that I consciously found snow-suitable. Today I’m going for the exact opposite, a post about an artist whose music is warm to the point of being tropical, driven by sweaty rhythms, and infused with passionate heat. That […]
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Records at Random, Vol. 75: Genius/GZA Liquid Swords

November 21, 2008 – 10:30 am
Back in August I marked the dog days of Summer–and the 13th anniversary of the album’s release date–by dedicating a Records at Random post to Wu-Tang Clan swordsman Chef Raekwon’s mafioso-Rap epic Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. In that post I went to great lengths to outline just some of the myriad reasons that […]
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A Many-Hued Existence

November 10, 2008 – 10:30 am
I get tons of e-mails every day from bands, musicians, singers, rappers, public relations firms and even other bloggers asking me to listen to “their” music. Only a tiny number of those e-mails contain links to music which is actually of some interest to me. And amongst that privileged minority only a paltry […]
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