"Sucker MCs, you better watch out". It's that time of the year again, and AUIYE has got you covered. Now generally, I ain't really feeling Xmas - but I gotta say it has given us some damn good, funky music. And if we all gotta hear it, we'd better step up our game when [...]
Take a look at the two men above. I wouldn't trust them with operating on my pancreas, but damn they spin some hot hip hop. Their names are Yea Big and Kid Static , and they're teamed up to release a disc creatively named Yea Big + Kid Static , which they released at the end of last month. Individually they both front impressive resumes. Put them together and you have mayhem. The dynamic duo describes their own music as "retro futuristic comic book hip hop." Do they award [...]
EAR FARM's Last.fm tells only part of the story, so let's check in with the 10 albums getting the most attention at EF HQ at the moment. There's a song from each album posted below, and a link to purchase each on Amazon/iTunes (if available). -- We Are Him by Angels Of Light - For two weeks now this has been getting a lot of attention from me, and for good reason. A surprisingly great record and worth checking out if you're into the intimate, open-road, [...]
Spank Rock - BOOTAY ( ysi ) / ( zshare ) this is one of the best things going on right now: spank rock sampling 2 live crew which according to their myspace sounds like "fat girls in a hot tub ". bootay is spank rock & benny blanco's second single off their bangers & cash ep from which a new track each week will roll out here . i loved 2 live crew: [...]
Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown Nobody Beats The Biz - Biz Markie Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymi stic - Isaac Hayes Seven Nation Army - The Flaming Lips Can't Find Love - Giant Sand Dance To The Drummer's Beat - Herman Kelly [...]
Graig G [sic]: Catch a Lyrical Beatdown Biz Markie: My Name Is... Bonus: MC Lyte: Listen Up (snippet) All from Topshelf 8/8/88 (Manhattan-JPN, 2007) Here's a little hip-hop mystery for you all... A friend hit me on IM and said, "hey, what have you heard of this Top Shelf album?" I had no idea what he was talking about so he sent me here . The short story is that, supposedly, this compilation [...]
one of the great things about living in new york is access. access to all kinds of cool stuff at anytime. while we don't always take advantage of what the city has to offer, just knowing we can if we choose to feels like a victory over predictability. one of our favorite places to go on weekends is the museum of natural history . i've always had mixed feelings about that place: its enormous collection of stuffed specimens from the animal kingdom is, umm, more accessible than their living relatives in the bronx zoo. but the [...]
Twisted Valentines los amigos is enamored of holiday posting traditions. And since I've been too crazy busy with work to post new material on a regular-like basis the past week or two, here's a partial repost of last year's Twisted Valentines offering, just for you (lame Hallmark rhyme included in the spirit of the holiday) : Here's a quick antidote for all y'all sick of the sticky sweetness of true valentine playlists. Nothing original in putting together [...]
There's something nicely democratizing about heavy-set musicians - sure, some of them play it for laughs (j'accuse Fat Boys !), but if a dude who looks and sweats like Meat Loaf can get famous, then heck, maybe I can, too! Also, if people can get behind a performer with girth like that, maybe things aren't going to hell in an image-conscious/obsessed handbasket as quickly as I imagined. (Or not - I found it much easier to think of famous fat male musicians than famous fat female musicians. Oh well...) Anyway, Linda's challenge was loads of fun, and [...]
Récapitulons cette folle semaine. Samedi mc michelsardou poste donc un lien vers le clip de Doowutchyalike de Digital Underground. Après avoir cliqué sur le lien je me suis retrouvé presque vingt ans en arrière ( !). Mon passé rap m'est revenu alors en mémoire et je me suis mis en quête d'un clip que j'adorais, Just a friend de Biz Markie. Hop, en quelques secondes de recherche sur Youtube je le trouvais. C'est la raison de la chronique d'aujourd'hui. Biz Markie est une figure du hip-hop. Vous n'en avez (...)
In celebtration of my new Biz Markie alarm clock, this post is an homage to The Biz. Instead of posting up some "best of" type cuts that everyone shoudl be sick of by now ( Nobody Beats The Biz being the only exception here, caused it's a favorite), let's jump around a bit and slip in some other fun stuff. Even though Biz don't move like he used to , he's still a legend in the record collecting circles and with sneaker heads . He also seems to be a favorite among many to get [...]
Today's Theme Mix Friday post comes to you from my friend, Sarah , aka Beebles (that's her in the picture with her ADORABLE dog, Ruby ). I guess her mix doesn't really have a theme, other than it being full of songs that she loves and that she strongly urges you to download. Sarah and I both hope they make your Friday a little brighter. Dion & The Belmonts - Ruby Baby Roy Orbison - In Dreams Tom Waits - God's Away [...]
For the past few weeks, I've been saving this update for use as a potential lull-buster. You know, in case things get a little to stale around the ol' website. Well, as you can see by the sporadic updates of the past couple of weeks, now is just such a time. We have big updates on the horizon, however; in the coming weeks, you'll be treated to previews and reviews of music events like the Pitchfork Music Festival , Lollapalooza , and the Midwest Music Summit , interviews with Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, [...]
from 87 through about 95/96 I was a pretty huge hip hop fan.  since then i have not paid much attention to the genre, cause frankly 98% of the stuff i have heard has been a sorry excuse. sure there are a few artists like aesop rock, mr lif, cannibal ox, el p, and a few others still droppin the science, but as a whole hip hop is in the shitter. any argument to the contrary is complete nonsense and as they used to say "straight up booty whack." well, over the past 8 months tommy boy records have released 12 volumes of what they consider to be [...]
all up in your earhole
Mainstream Isnt So Bad...Is It
EAR FARM
Winnie Cooper
Some Velvet Blog
soul sides
COMBOPLATES
los amigos de durutti
Selective Service
La Blogotheque
Looking at Them
My Bird Performs
Captain's Dead
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
Running To You
Summer Camp – Always
Friday Remixes
