Tag: Music
Good morning. Happy Tuesday, or whatever. Are you hungover? Did you get “turnt up” for Labor Day, dawg? Have you had your coffee yet? Are you ready? Good. Okay, seemingly out of nowhere the (newly Kim Deal-less) Pixies put out a 4-song EP today. And you can order a limited-edition 10″ vinyl with neat Ralph […]
Here’s the latest episode of Mass Appeal’s great new series “Rhythm Roulette,” which asks rap producers to pick three records while blindfolded, then make a beat that samples all three. This installment features El-P, who grabs LPs (see what I did there?) from Leon Haywood, Theo Vaness, and Beethoven. After hitting the vape and sipping some Modelo, […]
Here’s “ODB,” the video and first single from OLD, the forthcoming album from Detroit bruiser Danny Brown. If you’ve been following Danny at all (and of course you have), you pretty much know what to expect, and “ODB” doesn’t disappoint. Unsurprisingly for a first single, it’s in the vein of the bugged-out, drug-happy first half of breakout […]
Turns out “The Last Donut of the Night” wasn’t the last donut after all. The Detroit News is reporting that Herman Hayes, uncle to the late, impossibly great hip-hop producer J Dilla, will open a donut shop in Dilla’s honor in Detroit’s Harmonie Park. The shop, to be dubbed Dilla’s Delights, will feature all-organic treats with winking names like […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist is courtesy of Heavenly Beat, aka erstwhile Beach Fossils bassist John Peña, and leans heavily on breakbeats and ’90s nostalgia. Hits from the middle of that decade, when radio-friendly “alternative […]
When we spoke to veteran hip-hop blogger Byron Crawford last week, one of the things we touched upon was his love for NYC rappers Action Bronson and Meyhem Lauren. Now, here’s a video featuring that indomitable duo along with virtuosic producer Harry Fraud and Brooklyn hardhead Ag Da Coroner. As marionettes. It’s great. […]
This week brings the momentous news that Whole Foods will follow the trail blazed by Urban Outfitters and begin selling vinyl records alongside their quinoa, herbal teas, and organic, locally-made hand soaps. The grocery chain’s press release lists the solid if snoozeworthy list of artists they’ll carry– “including Frank Sinatra, the Rolling Stones, Daft Punk […]
Here’s a sublime little video of a musician named Julian Corrie playing his guitar and singing in an empty swimming pool. That guitar, however, is controlling an old floppy disk drive via MIDI, and there’s a keyboard and drum machine connected to a SEGA Mega Drive, Commodore 64, and a few hard drives as well. […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week saw the release of Earl Sweatshirt’s long-awaited debut album Doris. We’re looking at early highlight “Centurion,” which shares a sample with the 1995 Kool G Rap track “Take […]
I’m the guy in a lot of those photos above. There’s me in college, studying abroad in Trinidad; there’s me goofing off with my best friend in high school; there’s (lots and lots of) me and my girlfriend. It’s a little unsettling having all those tiny, relatively intimate moments up there, but if I’m sharing […]
