Tag Archives: The Roots

Simpson, or Seaver?

This week could have proven one of the best weeks of 2008 for “Indie” music lovers. Two of my favorite groups, who happen to be a couple of the genre’s most consistently exciting and envelope-pushing bands, were scheduled to have new albums out Tuesday. And I was souped that even in a year […]

Only Built 4 Polk County?

A lot was said in Friday’s Records at Random post dedicated to the 13th (despite its rep thirteen is one of my lucky numbers) anniversary of Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx about the qualities I admire a Hip-Hop album. Dirty sample-based beats imbued with the crackle-and-pop of vinyl, emcees who are creative, intelligent, […]

This Post Is Just Plain Loud

Do you remember that new Zach de la Rocha record I mentioned in that post about Beck and Tricky a couple of weeks ago? You might’ve even caught the audio leak of lead track “Wild International” when Dan posted it in the News section a few days ago. Well, that shit is out, […]

Lunch @ 45RPM’s

I closed out yesterday’s post with a surprise video clip from one of my favorite new Hip-Hop dudes of the year, Saint Louis, Missouri’s Black Spade. When I originally bigged up homeboy’s debut album To Serve With Love I likened my reaction to it to my reaction to hearing the Below the Heavens, the […]

“Blown to Hell… Crash… I’m the Last Splash”

The internets (and the blogosphere specifically) is notorious for being a fast-paced flood of information where all that matters is getting it fast, getting it first and then forgetting about it as soon as the next “it” comes along. But personally, I like to take my time with this blog shit. Sure, my broadband connection […]