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A few recommendations from my 2011

01.09.2012

If you’re looking for something to light your fire, here’s a decent place to start.

I used to spend a ton of time making big, long lists of my favorite everything – books, music, movies, etc. – and I took great joy in keeping those lists up-to-date. If you poke around on this site, you can find remnants of all that.

Anyway, in 2011, I was passionate about a few things. Here are some of them. [Read more…]

Filed Under: books, Comics, Etc., Hip-Hop, music, Video Games Tagged With: A Few Acres of Snow, Agit Reader, books, Cities Aviv, CM Punk, comics, How to Dress Well, James Blake, manga, Mark Bittman, Mickey Newbury, Miles Davis, music, Rajon Rondo, Shadow of the Colossus, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Jobs, Tomas Transtromer, Vanilla Cedarwood

Madlib’s New Medicine – from Africa

03.24.2010

Is anyone on earth more productive than Madlib? Seriously, it’s March and he’s already put out 6 albums this year (7 if you count the Strong Arm Steady instrumentals). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Hip-Hop Tagged With: Madlib

Safety Dance with J Dilla

03.23.2010

The late, great J Dilla re-interprets the song that was my favorite when I was 7 years old.

J Dilla does Safety Dance

Filed Under: Hip-Hop Tagged With: J Dilla, Men Without Hats

Aesop Records at Home

04.13.2009

Diabolical Fun (Aesop Rock in studio) from ill poetic on Vimeo.

Filed Under: Hip-Hop

Spaceman West: Live and even more Daft

05.17.2008

I hope Kanye pushes his music as far “out there” as he has his stage show.

See pictures of half-naked astronautettes here.

Filed Under: Hip-Hop

Dyme Def’s tight

05.15.2008

You know about these dudes, right?

Yeah, that track ain’t the bomb, but they agreed, so it’s not on their album.

Try Clap Clap instead.

Filed Under: Hip-Hop

Blueprint VS Funkadelic

04.24.2008

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Blueprint is a hometown hero here in Bustown, and he’s a genuine talent behind the boards and on the mic, and anytime he releases new music, it’s an event.

So, imagine my excitement when I received this email yesterday afternoon.

We are starting the preorders for the Blueprint vs Funkadelic CD. There are only 500 copies of the actual CD version of this release. The CD is $7.99 and will come with a 11×17 poster of the artwork and all the instrumentals. Pre-orders will be shipped out Thursday night (or first thing Friday depending on the order volume) and should arrive 2-3 days later depending on how far from Ohio you are.

For those of you wondering how you will get a copy of this release with when there’s only 500 copies of it don’t worry, starting next week on the release date there will be select websites that will make this album FREE to download on Tuesday, April 29th (specific sites to be announced later). The downloadable version will not include the instrumentals.

Exactly 8 minutes later I received an email receipt from CCNow. So, there are definitely not more than 499 copies left. Better act fast.

To order, CLICK HERE.

(There’s even a YouTube preview right here.)

Filed Under: Hip-Hop Tagged With: Blueprint

The Roots will return

04.23.2008

Their last album displayed amazing musicianship, but was kinda weak on the song-writing front. Black Thought sounded like he was sleeping through some of the sessions.
This sounds much better.

Filed Under: Hip-Hop

Bambu – “Pull It Back” Video

01.15.2008

My fave hip-hop album of the moment is Bambu’s “I Scream Bars for the Children”. This is not exactly one of the stand-out tracks, but it’s still way better than average. You might not guess it from this video, but Bambu is quite the social activist.

Filed Under: Hip-Hop

Plies – “Runnin My Momma Crazy” video

01.11.2008

My friend Sean Lewis sent this YouTube video to me. It’s a great homemade video and a shockingly heartfelt song. I’m a big fan of hip-hop songs that aren’t about braggin’, ballin’, or bangin’, mainly because they’re so rare. This is somewhat about bangin’, but mainly it’s about Plies’ love for his momma. What can I say? I relate.

Filed Under: Hip-Hop

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