Tagged: authenticity

LL Cool J - Authentic S-BRO Music Group; 2013 Contrary to your knee-jerk reaction to the name LL Cool J, “irrelevant” is actually the wrong word to most accurately describe the recent career arc of the man born James Todd Smith. After all, we’re talking about a 45-year-old rapper pushing 30 active years in the game. A man with 15 studio albums under his belt, the bulk of which were released on the most famous hip-hop record label in the world which he also helped to build. We’re talking about an entertainment personality with [...]

Alright, not to judge a book by its cover or anything, but LL Cool J 's track listing for Authentic is absolutely absurd. We wouldn't really be clowning this album if it wasn't for its title either. In fact, there is nothing authentic about his forthcoming full-length, especially when you consider features from, um, Eddie Van Halen, Seal, Brad Paisley, and Travis Barker. Did we mention that it opens with a song titled "Bath Salt"? I thought that was a cheap rapper trend like six months ago. But it seems like Cool J is late to everything [...]

Collect ‘em all.

By Caitlin White I like Foxygen ’s music, but I don’t think it belongs to them. After an initial EP in 2011, the duo of Sam France & Jonathan Rado were quickly scooped up by Bloomington, Indiana-based independent label Jagjaguwar. They released the bands debut full-length album We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic earlier this year. Wistful, lo-fi yarns strung around the fingers of classic rock like a cat’s cradle game slowly unravel as modernity claws at the reusable strands of the songs’ tropes and sonic composition. Let [...]

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Hiker Canvas Authentic (Verdant Green)

Guate Stripe Authentic

In this new box set, The 50th Anniversary Collection , Ben Jaffe gets to show off his family's history with New Orleans music, as well as a few new wrinkles of his own. I made the trip 16 years ago. It was May, and it's New Orleans, and the atmosphere outside 726 St. Peter Street was a sweaty sticky mess. But once I got into Preservation Hall, and managed to shoulder and slip my way through tourists and jazz aficionados up to the front of that boxy room, I fulfilled one of my greatest dreams: to hear authentic [...]

These will hit Vans accounts soon. Blue + Forest Green with Small birds printed throughout the upper. Slick.

This ongoing collaboration cant seem to lose, This time around Kenzo gives the special treatment to the Slip-On's as well. Check them out below. Hunting and Collecting will have the full lineup soon. Props to HS .

Vans releases a preview of whats to come next spring and summer using the authentic and van doren models.

Vans (Van Doren) Blue/Parrot

Before the show at Cafe Da Vinci, Noah entered the Cinco de Mayo moustache competition and won the title of most authentic moustache. Needless to say, he was very happy with the result. P.S. Gig tonight at the New World Brewery in Tampa, Florida. Show starts around 9.

  Vans Canvas Authentic Lite

A glorious mix from @Mauricefulton  on New York’s  WNYU . Looks and sounds like it was recorded on actual cassette tape in 1997 too. 

If, like me, you're a bit of a movie nerd and a Big Lebowski nut too, maybe, just maybe you like the idea of owning your very own Dude cardigan. You're luck's in if you do, as last year a few cardigan replicas were released and a few of them still seem to be popping up on ebay. The cardigan's design is known as 'authentic cowichan pendleton' and looks perfect slouching on the shoulders of any discerning slacker down the local ten pin bowling alley. [...]

In Lana Del Rey 's cover story for Complex, she speaks on issues of authenticity and makes a few good points: “If you consider the definition of authenticity,” Lana says, “it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic. Why would it be a different thing? I never changed my sound. I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There’s nothing to hide.” Still, it's hard [...]

CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO Original as only J-Live can make it...in this video, J-Live and his clones are "The Authentic." From the album "S.P.T.A. Said Person of That Ability". J-Live approaches "The Authentic" and much of the album, as if he were a three man group, rather than a solo emcee. Track produced by Marco Polo. "The Authentic" is off J-Live's new album S.P.T.A PURCHASE:  Bandcamp  (digital) •  Fatbeats  (physical) Previous Posts on J-Live [...]

HIPSTER RUNOFF presents: The Authenticator. Reviewing tracks/songs/mp3s based on their relevancy/authenticity. http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/t he-authenticator What is The Authenticator 'modeled after'/ripping off? We were inspired by Gorilla Vs. Bear and Pitchfork's 'Track Reviews.' I think other blogs also 'review tracks' too, but it seems like a difficult thing, because it is so content-farmy, but you also really have to make it seem like the track is relevant/important. Hopefully The Authenticator is chill and informative, letting people vibe out on a page, [...]

I was born in Queens, raised on Long Island. I currently live in Brooklyn. I've never farmed though I did own an Aero Garden for nearly a year. I'm an agnostic and Asian. So there's zero reason for me to be anything but terrified of musical forms that are closely linked to the southern United [...]