Everyone have a fantabulously fantabulous New Year's? I got so shitfaced that I sang "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" on Karaoke Revolution". When I have too much vodka my desire to sing that song becomes unbearable for some bizarre reason. People love it when the 6'6'' dude rocks out Bonnie Tyler though, so everyone wins. I kicked in Christmas with an old-school rap post and in doing so I promised more in the future, so what better way to ring in the new year than with more classic hip-hop cuts. I have a few more to get through [...]
You should all be snuggled tight in your beds dreaming of Saint Nick right about now, but if you're not, then you might as well be busting a move. To provide a bit of assistance in that area, here is an über-mega-large list of remixes to put the hip in your shake. Most of these were penned in 2007, so we'll call it an end of the year, best of, remix, mixtape...or something like that. I inquired to Party Ends and Cubik Musik about the remixes they enjoyed this year, so PE sent over [...]
Over time, doing a music web site can become sort of a vacuum. It can seem like everyone is talking about something, when really it's mainly just being discussed in what you happen to read, or spoken about in the circle of people with whom you converse. In case you didn't know, Arrested Development has been releasing new music. Yes, the same AD that had the hits " Tennessee " and " Mr. Wendal " back in the day. After their newest effort Since Last Time came out, it seemed like everywhere I turned [...]
Arrested Development's "Miracles" from their new album "Since The Last Time." Originally from MPR: The Current Song of the Day on November 18, 2007, 11:00pm
About 15 years ago Arrested Development pioneered gangsta-rap. Angry guys singing about the wrongs in American cities. A noble cause. They sold millions of records and then they broke up. And now they are back with a new album called Since The Last Time . They are plugging a new kind of music: Life Music . Huh? This blurb may be helpful: A new revolution has been born from compelling stories told to a joyful beat and a style, a groove, and a consciousness that continues expanding from a ground zero explosion to [...]
Very late on Saturday night, a group of us descended upon IHOP for french toast and pancakes because we were gripped with an urgent need for them. The place was packed, as usual, with your garden variety twentysomethings with slightly reddened eyes, talking quite a bit too loud. Everything was funny. Front door opens, in walk three guys (no lie) straight from like a Dungeons & Dragons convention -- trench coats, goggles (?!), greasy hair, a condescending look to the mortals around them. And even though it made me feel like I was back in junior high, it [...]
It took the group three years, five months and two days to be offered a record deal, when Chrysalis Records sent A&R director Duff Marlowe to Atlanta's Bosstown Studios to meet with the group's manager Michael Mauldin. Arrested Development (Speech, Montsho Eshe, One Love, Nicha, Radason (aka Don Norris), Baba Oje, JJ Boogie, Za) had already been offered a single deal for the song "Tennessee". Hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks. These included "Tennessee", "People Everyday", and "Mr. Wendal", which hit the [...]
It's Friday, or at least it still is somewhere and that means it's time for some Versus nineties loving. I have a special feeling about this weeks selection, something almost magical. I saw these guys in their reunion tour a couple of years ago, it was rad there is like 25 band members. This song takes you right to the place. Arrested Development - Tennessee ( dir ) ( ysi ) Janet tells it like it is. Fuck I love those long drawn out synth notes under the classic hi-hat [...]
Más que una banda o grupo se puede decir que Arrested Development son un colectivo de almas dedicadas a desarrollar un hip hop positivo, de alto contenido ideológico y espiritual, rescatando raíces musicales del soul , el blues y otras vertientes de la cultura musical afro americana . La suma de todos estos elementos les ha permitido ubicarse en un sitial privilegiado de la historia de hip hop en general, convirtiéndose en una escuela en donde podemos encontrarnos con las [...]
From L-R : Andy Rourke, Morrissey, JC and Johnny Marr. If only........... It's actually the cover of a quite brilliant birthday present given to me back in 1993 by Jacques the Kipper. At the time in our lives, we were in the habit of exchanging C90s around every two months, made up of stuff that we thought the other would like, or old things that we were listening to again after a period of
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speech and the crew, 10 years later - finally "I really feel like hip hop is lacking balance right now, we've got a lot of gangster stuff that is being exposed, a lot of materialistic music that is being exposed and that's alright, we've always had that in hip hop since the beginning, but the problem about it is that that's all that's being exposed and so people have a false experience of what hip hop is right now," Speech explains. "A lot of generations of children don't really understand how broad [...]
Due to the overwhelming demand (read: I got a few nice e-mails and comments), I now proudly present Nerd Litter's second and most likely final tribute to the greatest television show since the advent of the cathode-ray tube. While I spotlighted my three favorite characters last time , Arrested Development is nothing if not a perfect ensemble of actors, so now I'm focusing on some of the other indispensable reasons the show is still permanently clogged in my DVD drive. Sorry to be getting a little cornball on you here, but you'd have to be an MRF [...]
I'm only beginning to get over my mourning period for Arrested Development , easily the smartest, zaniest, wittiest and all-around best sitcom of the last eighty-five years or so. I figure a lot of you agree, since the one post I wrote about the show has consistently remained one of this blog's most popular. And every day, more and more people find their way over here via Arrested -related searches. But I'm not really surprised. I'm still rewatching my DVDs at an alarming rate. I'm still excessively quoting the show whether the [...]
Girl Talk's Night Ripper , this summer's hot blogness, has inspired many conversations between us music geeks. When I got the CD, I grabbed my pad and paper and started scribbling down every sample that I thought I recognized, however challenging it was. So then I e-mailed Heather of I Am Fuel, You Are Friends and after talking about a collaborative post lo and behold she sent me the wiki link to a list of samples and it made our [...]
This weekend's gonna leave me black and blue. I can feel the pain already. Looking forward to the bruises. Physical and mental methinks. It's my first ever stag do and we're going paint balling. Proper man stuff. I'm tying the red bandana round my head as we speak. Camo gear ready. War paint on my face. I'm gon' go primal. Unleash some animal instinct. Get predatory. Right up until the point where I get shot five minutes in, when most likely I'll squeal like a girl. Then we're hitting the town for some male-centric [...]
Watch Arrested Development tonight, Please. Yikes now i'm doing commercials! For Fox no less, but I'll attach my name to this one, Touch That Dial totally endorses Arrested Development, and hopes all you Good American's do your civic duty and support smart TV. Thanks! Tags: Arrested Development
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