Jimmy Ness has a duck in his Caprice. Flocka can get a club ratchet faster than a Ferrari can go zero to 60. Hence, this bangs so hard that even snarky elitists would strip their cardigans off and smash Roland Barthes books on the heads of their rivals. Flocka shout-raps to the roosters, the chickenheads who sit in his Ferrari and try to count the Flockaveli fortune. His opening acapella sets things off: "Pay for what girl? You better pay for this dick!" Fozzie Bear is too busy for gold diggers when there's stacks to [...]
The Enthusiasts –Sinkin/Risin' b/w Joanne Mutated garage fuzz with a mean and beefy bottom end. The Enthusiasts know how to bring the rock into the garage rock vein. Not content to settle on the fuzz and tin can vocals, the lads drop some big, near-stoner riffs, a nifty breakdown and a blur of a guitar solo into "Sinkin'/Risin'". "Joanne" follow suit with a tasty, psychedelic guitar/vocal intro. Coming from a "small town north of NYC", this is the Enthusiasts second 7" platter. Toss in a handcrafted, self-stapled sleeve and we [...]
Well before Dave Tompkins decrypted the DNA of the vocoder , it existed as Los Angeles' preferred funk steroid. No telling how many times the Troutman's soundtracked my juvenile declensions. Power 106 played "Computer Love" enough to make me wary of my shoddy Intel 486. Through the tubes Snufflupagusing out of his mouth, Roger was able to turn the talk box into the only instrument to make robots malfunction from an overdose of salt. That, the movie Wall-E, and any full project Wale has released since Mixtape About Nothing . Virtual Boy are dubiously old enough [...]
By: Rinjo Njori The Enthusiasts jump from English Power Pop into the Power Trio arena with their second single. While their first single might have been stylistically different they settle down nicely on their latest. "Sinkin'/ Risin'" blends the 60s psychedelic and 70s blues-metal leanings of Deep Purple and Ogden's Nut Flake-era The Small Faces. Joey F. blends the guitar sounds of Ritchie
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Mustard Seed - The Magnificent Mustard Seed - The Fall Mustard Seed - Get em' DOWNLOAD THE EP HERE Mustard Seed consists of two members outta California, "Devious" and "PapPap" aka "Iller Than Jubei". A partnership that was originally formed through a love of basketball. Both avid hip-hop enthusiasts they would freestyle in spare time and play with the idea of making good music in a ever changing hip-hop [...]
"1st & Foremost - the debut album from Sacramento Hip Hop artist/producer, Soosh*e. An album put in writing in late 2009, 1st & Foremost had its ups and downs, but it has become a project fitting for Hip Hop enthusiasts and mainstream fans alike. With executive producers Brandon "Soosh*e" Shimabukuro & Rudy "Rufio" Reynon II [...]
By: Rinjo Njori Where the Saw Mill and the NY State Thruway almost criss-cross lies the small town of Ardsley. Not much there but stores and a bike path that runs along the Saw Mill; it's certainly not a place where your average punk band stays -- the average band gets out of Dodge. In this part of New York, rock dreams usually get on the local Metro North and head south to the city. The
9. POST SOME TUNES!! I don't usually post singles or review a band who only have a few songs to offer, but today I am making an exception. First, a cover of Candi Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" by The Swell Season . This is far and away the best cover I've heard this year. Young Hearts Run Free - The Swell Season Second, a submission from New York's "The Enthusiasts", whose two-song single In The City is available from Infirmary Phonographic records. Solid [...]
This month has probably been the most prolific month for me since I've started this blog. I've blasted out 20 posts (21 counting this one) and cleared out my mailbox three times. By my own low standards, that's amazing. I think I deserve a vacation. Items of note for you to note: Amanda Zelina makes a third appearance on these hallowed pages. This go 'round, she has released an album of gritty blues under the name The Coppertone. It's very much in the vein of the Dead Weather. I've liked everything I've heard from Amanda and this [...]
I like bands that are born out of boredom the right way vs lost emo kids pretending to be wolves . The Enthusiasts are proud suburbanites brought-up the right way by annoying their neighbors making rockn'roll even gilfy grandmas could admit to liking. We encourage you to help them in their quest to keep their amps fuzzed out, cigarettes lit and their city dreams by getting yerself their IN THE CITY debut 7" from infirmary phonographic . So what if I'm giving you one of tracks here. it's much cooler way to impress the [...]
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