While perusing through my music library the other day I realized just how many of my favorite songs from the last year included spoken word introductions, either as samples, recordings, or by the artists themselves. This prompted further exploration and after a bit more searching I was able to round up enough spoken intro songs to warrant a mix. Some ground rules: I didn't include count-ins (one, two, three, FOUR!), studio talk ("Jim, can you record the talk back?"), spoken word portions in the middle of the song ("Graveyard Girl") or songs that are entirely spoken word ("Century of Elvis"). [...]
It´s a Wild Weekend yet again and I guess you all know what that means by now... Here´s another diverse bunch of goldies, with special thanks to the magic of the iPod shuffle. Hey ho. We´re off to a rather furious start with bassless Detroit garage trio the Gories and their highly inflammable John Lee Hooker cover Let Your Daddy Ride . Production: that late Memphis man Alex Chilton of course. Lower down your chariot, baby, and buy their glorious I Know You Be Houserockin´ cd forthwith. [...]
Yo, homies... Here´s another summer tenpack comin´ at ya, straight from the boon dox this time. Which means it´s the For The Sake Of The Beats edition tonight, with a fine selection of HipHop tunes I think are da bomb. And as it just dawned on me that most of this stuff is really rather old, wouldn´t it be nice if any readers of this blog could recommend me some more recent HipHop in the same vein as the tracks below? Much obliged. Gang Starr - Suckas Need Bodyguards MP3 [...]
Tonight in DC the Black Cat has some straight up rock with The Ettes, Impossible Hair, and the Face Accidents. If you happen to be in Philly this evening be sure to catch GZA performing Liquid Swords, Burke, and Viro the Virus at the Trocadero while the First Unitarian Church has The Wombats. Enjoy! mp3: The Ettes - Marathon mp3: GZA - Pencil (featuring RZA and Masta Killa) mp3: The Wombats - School Uniforms
On August 19th Wu-Tang Clan's GZA/Genius released his fifth solo album, Pro Tools . I first fell into GZA way back when while flipping through countless hip hop albums at my local record shop before settling on the infamous Liquid Swords . If you like hip hop and don't have that album, you need to stop whatever you are doing and run to the record shop. GO! Okay back to Pro Tools. After Liquid Swords GZA has put out a stretch of albums that don't quite top the beauty he created on the first, but they [...]
Who: The Dodos When: July 19th + September 28th Where: Siren Fest + Spiegeltent More Dates Listen: The Dodos - "Fools" Thoughts: A few months ago I went to Sound Fix to witness the full power of The Dodos live set. I was stuck all the way in the back but the show was still one of my favorites of the year so far and since then their album Visitor has been in a regular rotation! I'm really glad the
Liquid Swords may very well be my favorite Wu-Tang release. By far the most solid of all the releases during Wu's peak. The RZA provides solid production and some of the darkest sounds he has ever created. So today I completely lost it when I found out The GZA will be in Austin in September and will be performing the album in it's entirety. He had done so previously at the Pitchfork Music fest and at some shows in NY but I thought that was it. Here are the full list of dates. Oh and RZA [ Tickets ] is [...]
Comin' atcha first thing every Monday morning, it's The Pony Track, a super-fantastic short distance dedication to BadmintonStamps Collective founding member and internationally renowned symbol for musical excellence Aaron "Pony" Child. No fancy links, no clever write-ups, 'cause these awesome songs don't need no splainin'. So c'mon, ride the pony!
In honor of the Genius' Liquid Swords performance at the El Rey this Saturday night, I have an article in the new LA Weekly, analyzing the unimpeachable brilliance of the record and why nearly 15 years after its release it's regarded as one of the genre's finest. It's not really my place to say whether it's good or not, but I had more fun writing this piece than almost anything else I've written. Thanks also need to be said to the infamous Barry Schwartz of Disco Vietnam for helping me decipher an album that [...]
B.I.B.L.E. (BASIC INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE LEAVING EARTH The Gza Liquid Swords Geffen : 1995 [Buy It] MOISTWORKS STORYTIME CORNER PRESENTS : An excerpt from The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda Simon & Schuster : 1968 [Buy It] Sunday, 15 April 1962 As I was getting ready to leave, I decided to ask him once more about the enemies [...]
If you're one of the oh-so-lucky people who get the "tell all your friends" e-mails from publicists who are gushing about a band...and then another band...and then another band, then you will probably be able to ignore this post. GUSHER #1 - "Razorlight are finally returning to North American shores with a string of dates beginning November 7th in Boston, MA." GUSHER #2 - "Earl Greyhound kicks off its Fall tour tonight in New York at the Rumsey Playfield with Gov't Mule. After a couple dates with Warren Haynes and co., Kamara, Matt & Ricc with [...]
Free Shows : (still the best price in town) Friday 9/7: Palomar @ Sound Fix Records 10pm Palomar - "Stay Out Late" (Live WOXY session) Saturday 9/15: My Teenage Stride @ Sound Fix 9pm My Teenage Stride - "To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge" Monday 9/17: The Hold Steady + Illinois @ 7 World Trade Center Park The Hold Steady - "You Gotta Dance With Who [...]
The 15th 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 ), comes from blogger/freelance writer/all-around good dude Jeff Weiss, keeper of the Passion of the Weiss . Genius/GZA Liquid Swords (Geffen, 1995) "I got screwed in the summer of '96. Not literally (oh, but how I wished), but more the type of screwing that concerned not making my 14- and 15-year-old [...]
Ho hum, it's Halloween and blogs the world over are posting relevant tunes - songs about death and ghosts and such like. (especially the mighty Spread The Good Word) Here's some more scary shit right now. Get behind the sofa. Unsane - Bath Unsane - 4 Stix (Led Zepellin cover) Golly, these chaps are very grumpy. Unsane were (in)famous for having police photos depicting the aftermath of murders
Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good
For The Sake Of The Song
Pasta Primavera
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
ultra8201
BadmintonStamps
The Passion of the Weiss
Moistworks
Bring Me Up
So Much Silence
Domino Rally
Freddie Gibbs ft. Young Jeezy & T.I. – Pull Up [Music]
Trails and Ways – Nunca
Rihanna Gets Nude For Nude
Catcall – ‘The Warmest Place’
