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

February 4, 2009 – 10:30 am
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 […]
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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Two)

December 19, 2008 – 10:32 am
  Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites. I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them. Here are five more… Last week I got an e-mail from Asthmatic Kitty Records announcing that a certain website gave Ropechain, the sophomore album from Indianapolis, Indiana’s Grampall Jookabox a […]
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Shuffle Songs, Vol. 4 — Baby Ruth®?

November 13, 2008 – 10:30 am
Yes, that is Chunk–the pudgy, habitually dishonest, ice-cream-obsessed kid from the 1980’s flick The Goonies–doing his “truffle shuffle” at the top of this page. And that can only mean one thing…that in today’s post I’m putting Blogarhythms on “shuffle” once again! Named after a song by postpunkelectrogoths New Order, the Paris-based Thieves Like Us are […]
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Count Me In for the Night

September 17, 2008 – 10:40 am
If the “great outdoors” is my “cathedral” than I suppose the discotheque is my altar. Seriously, I’ve had numerous “religious experiences” during my lifetime and nightclubs are the most frequent locations in which they’ve occured. Before you ask, no I wasn’t drunk or on drugs, so these bursts of seemingly supernatural energy weren’t the byproduct […]
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Not to Be Confused With the Young Black Teenagers

July 21, 2008 – 11:47 am
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 […]
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