Viva La Hova For Pres
Anyone that has known me personally knows that I’ve been consistently obsessed with Jay-Z ever since Hard Knock Life dropped in ‘98 (keep in mind, I was thirteen years old). This was when I would come home from school, drop my backpack and watch BET for about two hours, or until Digimon came on.
I still [...]
Mixtape – Cinder & Smoke
This weekend, I had the rare opportunity to spend a long weekend away from the studio and out in the brisk western Virginia woodlands. It was a magical couple of days filled with romantic fireside evenings, long hikes along kaleidoscopic trails, and vistas replete with wildlife, waterfalls, blue skies and cool air. This mixtape [...]
Take A Chill Pill
Like most great music, Koushik may be a little hard to grasp the first listen through. My brain didn’t fully recognize the genius of it all until several listens later. It’s easy to compare Koushik to fellow Canadian Caribou or later RJD2, but there’s an enduring laziness in his music that makes repeated listenings [...]
Lucky Days
I am not Swedish. I do not speak Swedish. I have never been to Sweden. Despite all this, I seem to have a knack for unearthing the latest and greatest in Swedish music.
One of my favorite recent discoveries on repeat is Boris & The Jeltsins. They only have two tracks (a debut album is currently [...]
Hip-Hop & Go-Go—The World Gonna Rock That
(photo via Maria Imaginario)
Wale is one of my favorite new rappers to hit the ground running in ‘08. With a quick tongue, Wale spits a bottomless flow of dense, liquid rhymes. With collaborators from Mark Ronson to Nick Catchdubs, 10 Deep and Levi’s, Wale is breaking DC onto the national hip-hop scene with a [...]
Two Weeks and Counting
I don’t listen to haters. I listen to T-Pain. Fourteen days left until the new album drops. I hope you’re ready. Too bad there’s no way you can be.
T-Pain feat. Akon X Radiohead – Bar Recker (Jams Dean Mashup) (320kbps)
Everybody’s Gone Surfing
Devendra Banhart is one of my favorite musicians. I’m normally not into psychedelia, but there’s something theatrical and mysterious about Banhart ’s voice when paired with his eclectic instrumentation. Banhart is one of the few musicians (aside from Antony Hegarty) whose music can bring me to tears.
I was extremely excited to check out Surfing, the [...]
WHERE ART THOU?
Bravado doesn’t have to be stupid. MC Jimmy Jamz and DJ Bobby Evans from Brother Reade have been proving this point for some time now. Brother Reade from day one were receiving critical shout-outs from just about every publication, but after their full length album Rap Music (Record Collection, July 2007), it seems they sort [...]
