Tag Archives: The Cure

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 7 — Shuffle, Step, But Change…Not So Much

Since this blog’s inception a few years back London-based composer Shawn Lee has appeared in our pages no fewer than three times. His most recent appearance was of course in Tuesday’s post, where I featured his newest LP Soul in the Hole alongside metal-masked rapper/producer DOOM’s new record Born Like This. But […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: Micah James, Cadence Weapon and Juba Dance

Like I said yesterday, on the occasions when I find something to like about contemporary Hip-Hop I really like it. And for the last couple years some of the things I’ve liked the most have been “mixtape” projects. This despite the fact that for a number of years previous a decrease in mixtape […]

Rave, Rave Before the Crying of the Light!

Favoritism towards an album that marries hippie-hearkening Pop to mutant club beats and a single that revives Boz Scaggs-esque country-boy Disco is one thing, but the love I had for the Disco magic revivalism of last year’s self-titled debut from Hercules and Love Affair was something else entirely. I mean, chunky club beats or […]

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 […]

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 […]