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“I Can Tell You’re Fly by the WEAVE! That You Wear… ” © Kelvin Mercer

February 10, 2009 – 10:30 am
I know, Hip-Hop is far from the only genre of music whose modern incarnation is fractured and unbalanced. Seeing the art of songwriting and raw talent replaced by a cult of personality drove most people to write off what passes for “Pop” music a long time ago. The voice of the disaffected, dispirited […]
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Countrymusicdiscosouldubalbum (No, It’s Not a Parliament or Isaac Hayes Song Title)

January 26, 2009 – 10:30 am
The first month of the year may be close to finished, but I’m only just now feeling like 2009 has really started. The new releases are really beginning to pile up fueling my anticipation of what’s to come in the next eleven months. In Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion I’ve found my first […]
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The British May In Fact Be Coming

January 22, 2009 – 10:30 am
Yeah, so our new pres is freakin’ awesome, there’s change in the air, and America has a reason to be proud of itself for once. That’s all pretty righteous, but most of the music on the radio still blows, so we shouldn’t forget there’s a whole world of sound out there to explore. […]
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Records MP3s at Random, Vol. 69: Big Audio Dynamite Tighten Up, Vol. 88

October 3, 2008 – 10:30 am
Writing about one-man British pixel-Punk band Sportsday Megaphone yesterday, and noting several qualities he shared in common with Mick Jones‘ post-The Clash group Big Audio Dynamite, inspired today’s choice of random record. Well, first it reminded me that I was supposed to put B.A.D.’s 1995 album F-Punk on m. Cody’s iPod, but after that […]
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