Yesterday Passion of the Weiss talked about the old skool hip-hop doc Rhyme & Reason and he mentioned he was not feeling much of Krs-One's catalog. My reply was.."ah waaaaaa?" This isn't a post attacking Jeff, because he brings a lot of good old skool hip hop to the table. I honestly just can't believe he isn't into the blast master. While I agree with Weiss in the fact KRS-One is a blow hard, I give him a lifetime pass. So in an effort to sway any doubters, here are three classics: [...]
sir david attenborough breaks it down for ya. so listen up. that's what jesus would do (for a klondike bar). Boogie Down Productions "You Must Learn"
Sweet intricate melodies and the male and female vocals of Solon Bixler and Rachel Stolte playing counterpoint to one another soak through this album from beginning to end. Behind them are waves of lush orchestrated sounds that weave in and out providing a large, loud but crystal clear backdrop. Welcome to Trading Twilight for Daylight , the debut album from Great Northern . Solon and Rachel, long time friends from Silver lake, CA who had both played in separate bands previously, formed the nucleus of the band, and later brought aboard drummer Davey Latter [...]
Rest assured, Joey " Straight Bangin " and I are putting in work, trying to import the many ballots we received into spreadsheet form. Sadly, it takes a whole lot of time, so don't expect a full list until at least late next week. All apologies. In the meantime, here's a look at the next 25 that didn't make my ballot. 50. Atmosphere- Overcast! Before concluding that 2Pac was right when [...]
...Burns Half As Long" (mp3s finally added 4.16.07) I apologize for the lateness of this playlist - and no I intend no pun at all there - it's just that this has proven to be a surprisingly emotional and difficult to describe Selection for me. A bunch of nostalgia is tied into this time of the year, and a lot of it got dredged up and put in the blender with current coincidences and shakeups, the end result being just a really really weird and distracting couple of weeks. But here we go. [...]
"Not gonna be a good one. I can feel it. I feel weak. I feel weakened. Ohhh, Daddy needs his vitamin water." -- Tom, drinking the $2 Kool-Aid "I'm not interested in transvestite midgets who want to, you know, sleep with lesbian washing machines. You know, I'm not interested in that." -- Spike, rejecting daytime talk shows "It was like Barfly . Barfly with pens." -- Tom on the depressing Artist Alley at the NY Comic Convention "Oh, he's [...]
The contributions have been coming fast and furious of late, and I'm more than pleased to offer up the ninth installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums ( read intro ). Jonah Matranga (ex-Far, New End Original, Gratitude, aka Onelinedrawing) takes a stream-of-consciousness approach in discussing two seminal hip-hop groups, the type of entry I love about doing this series because of the freedom contributors have to shape their thoughts. Jonah Matranga | A New England [...]

Wordpress , the blogging software behind this blog, has a cool feature that snatches comment spam and tucks it away so I can delete it. I have a question. Who are the people that spend their days creating this stuff?? What low-life wastes of space get up in the morning and look forward to a day of carpet bombing the internet with this trash? What the hell is hentaipowerpuff?? On second thought, I don't wanna know. It just mystifies me that there are people that do this. Obviously $$$ is the driving [...]