There've been many awesome Stooges-related things that have come out of the last week or so, not least the band's new album (which is actually quite good ) and their killer performance at New York's Le Poisson Rouge. But perhaps most awesome all is the photo that's been making the rounds of Iggy clutching two kids in junior versions of his trademark sequined jeans. They look terrified, he looks delighted, and the whole thing is many kinds of awesome. So, in a similar [...]
Many believe that the birth of rap began with Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” but it also was the first popular rap single to employ ‘sampling.’ This was not sampling in the traditional sense, however, because the Gang rapped over the recording of a live band playing the backing beat. It was actually Grandmaster Flash and others in the 70’s and 80’s, instead, who pioneered the direct use of others music in their own creations and laid the groundwork for the fight over music sampling to come. The first salvo in this legal battle began with 2 [...]
Despite being attached to the G.O.O.D. Music roster for a few years now, Georgia-born rhyme-slinger CyHi The Prynce has yet to really break out from an under-the-radar ranking within his star-laden squad, sometimes making it easy to forget that he's even affiliated. Making things a bit worse: that his latest mixtape, Ivy League: Kick Back , would end up dropping the same week as his far more popular labelmate Pusha T's much-anticipated Wrath of Caine freebie. Unfortunate release date coincidences aside though, the [...]
We're delighted to see that Marianne Faithfull's Broken English is getting the deluxe reissue treatment this week — it's one of the great comeback records of all time, and also one that's been somewhat overshadowed over the years by its creator's oft-discussed personal life. We don't have a great deal of use for rock 'n' roll mythology here at Flavorpill; it's not that we're anti-drug, but we've seen too many great musicians and artists killed by embracing the sex/drugs/rock 'n' roll cliché as if it were a prerequisite for credibility and/or creative fulfillment. It's also frustrating when we [...]
We're delighted to see that Marianne Faithfull's Broken English is getting the deluxe reissue treatment this week — it's one of the great comeback records of all time, and also one that's been somewhat overshadowed over the years by its creator's oft-discussed personal life. We don't have a great deal of use for rock 'n' roll mythology here at Flavorpill; it's not that we're anti-drug, but we've seen too many great musicians and artists killed by embracing the sex/drugs/rock 'n' roll cliché as if it were a prerequisite for credibility and/or creative fulfillment. It's also frustrating when we [...]
We've finally answered an age-old question from the decade, as our intrepid panel of shipwrecked music lovers definitively chose Prince over Michael Jackson - not to mention Stevie Wonder, Public Enemy, Rick James and Run-DMC - in the 1980s R&B and hip hop edition of our on-going Desert Island Discs series. In all, Prince received six votes - with two [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Music Appreciation Getty Have you ever been in the same place at the same time as 450,000 other people? First off, if you've got to pee you're in trouble. And a number two? Full on crisis. And that doesn't even count the fight for food, the life-sustaining need to find water, or the inevitable sunstroke victim beside you who'll eventually puke on your shoes. [...]
Earlier this month Dutch trio Kraak & Smaak presented us with their latest collection, Mixed Feelings, featuring new tunes, remixes of songs found on 2011's Electric Hustle and a selection of their best re-rubs to date for Moby, Sander Kleinenberg and Smoove & Turrell. The threesome's track with Daft Punk collaborator Romanthony ("One More Time" [...]
Well, I guess he did, judging from the photo above and from his song lyrics, but he never got the kind of love that translated to sustained multi-platinum crossover success. To be completely fair, he had his moments, commercially speaking, though they were few, far between and, well, too few. Only two of his singles made it to the Top 20 on Billboard's Hot 100 (1978's "You and I," which peaked at No. 13, and 1981's "Super Freak," a No. 16 hit), and he had only one blockbuster LP (1981's triple-platinum Street Songs ). Even his [...]
This is my latest creation - a Dance remix of Super Freak by Rick James with a Reggae Dub feel. I love the original song and wanted to do something fresh and fun. Make sure you grab the free download! And for nostalgia's sake, here is the original video from 1982
This is my latest creation - a Dance remix of Super Freak by Rick James with a Reggae Dub feel. I love the original song and wanted to do something fresh and fun. Make sure you grab the free download ! And for nostalgia's sake, here is the original video from 1982
Me tope con VOICEDUDE con un mash llamado "Freak-o De Mayo", donde el mash hacia un abuso de palabras esterotipicas del clasico 5 de Mayo POV del Norte Americano (El cual no tiene nada que ver con el de este lado). Aun asi, suena bien lograda la mezcla de los WAR vs RICK JAMES y el clitche latino hecho persona: PITBULL. I met VOICEDUDE mashes thanks to this "Freak-o-De Mayo", that is a kind of over abuse of the steretypic words of 5 de Mayo of the North American POV (that btw do not have anything to do [...]
Who Got That Hydro?? P&B wants to wish a happy holidays to all the tokers in P&B Nation, and gift you with this 420 friendly playlist. Everything from Sublime, to Three-Six Mafia, to Curtis Mayfield, there’s sure to be something to please the inner pothead in you! Roll up, light two or three, and bump this through your speakerbox… TeeFizz [...]
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"Tell'em quiet, Hannibal Lecter's lecturing." We identified Thelonious Martin as one of the game's top up and coming producers last summer, and have been working with him since. This January, we started a Thelonious Martin x Closed Sessions project, creating music every week at SoundScape Studios, along with documentary clips and all that. A couple weeks ago Thelonious was playing me music from his New Jersey crew members in the Tastemakers, one of which being Topaz Jones. I told him we needed to get some of his Tastemaker fam on the project, and without hesitation he put together [...]
El preferido de San Luis Potosi regresa al blog con una combinacion popurri-mashup de combinaciones inpensables: Guns & Roses con Rick James, ritmos cumbieros, electro, vainas, teclados, colores, ahh!! todo!. Descarguen mientras puedan, y salvese quien pueda del Acorde On del pueblo. The favorite from San Luis Potosi is back. With a Mashup-Popurri combination unthinkable like: Guns & Roses meets Rick James Super freak, cumbia rhytms and electro stabs, vainas, keyboards, colours, ahh!! everything!!. Download it like theres no time, and go tell your parents Acorde On is back in town. Le [...]
Prince and Rick James always knew there's only one spot in the music business for a true super-freak, and in the early 1980s both aimed to rule it. Purple Hippies and Michael Maniacs are still in a dance floor dispute. They battle at "Michael vs. Prince" parties, trying to settle a score in an argument that endured since the mid 1980s. In fact, Michal Jackson and Prince themselves came close to an actual face off in 1987. The taunting title track of Bad, Jackson's anticipated follow-up to Thriller, was designed by visionary producer Quincy Jones as a duet for [...]
It's amazing what a simple YouTube search can do for the creative process. With the entire world watching an expected emotional Grammys tonight on the heels of Whitney Houston's passing, [...]
Yaşamın bu denli güzel olduğunun farkına varmamak. Ah ne budalalık. Yakında, yarın, bugünlerde, geri dönmekte olan bahar güzelliğine gideceğim. Ağaçlar şimdiden yapraklandı. Yaşam bir ara bir yük gibi gözükmüştü gözüme, şimdiyse bir süs, bir anıt, bir gösteri gibi gözüküyor. Ah ah, keşke insan dünyaya bir ölünün gözüyle bakabilseydi. "Yalnız Bir Adam" A Flock Of Seagulls - Messages M - Pop Muzik Rick James - Superfreak (Roca Sound Remix Wall of [...]
Still not sure what to make of the Boiler Room , I've never really seen DJing as a spectator sport and the crowd don't seem to be particularly lively. Still, they have some very fine guests turn out; Last Tuesday's broadcast featured some excellent jocks from the Bleep / Warp stable including Rustie, Ikonikia and Funkineven who ended his set with this disco classic from Rick James . Rick James- Give It To Me Baby (Instrumental) (Download)
Another week, another silly online poll. This week, it was UK music site Music Radar, who conducted a poll amongst their readers as to the best bassline ever. As with every other UK-based online poll, the winner, of course, was Muse , who can add this "prize" to their oh-so-richly-deserved NME titles for "Best Lyricist Ever" and "Best Guitarist Ever" — if NME ever ran a poll for "Best 24-Piece Chinese Traditional Ensemble," Muse would probably win that, too. Anyway, it's almost too easy to poke holes in these things, but this one does seem [...]
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