February 2010
24 posts
WHO DAT?! WHO DAT?! →
With Mardi Gras right around the corner, and the Saints headed to the Super Bowl next Sunday, I felt like posting a couple albums from down in New Orleans.. Crippled from a childhood…
January 2010
38 posts
PCH Late Night Illin' →
Heard this first track late last night on KCRW. It’s smooth, soulful, and ideal for after hour soirees (It is Marvin Gaye afterall). When Marvin comes in around that 4 minute…
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Vampire Weekend - Diplomat’s Son
I wish...
Zero Rupee Notes →
heyitsnoah:
I like good ideas, and this one qualifies. In India, where corruption (and the bribery that comes along with it) are a big problem, an organization called 5th Pillar has taken to printing zero rupee notes (so far it’s printed over one million of them). The basic premise is that when someone is confronted by a corrupt official for a bribe they give them the zero rupee note, allowing...
Chicks Who Rock (really) →
I have been listening to this album - Know Better Learn Faster by Thao with the Get Down Stay Down (awesome name) - for a couple of months and I can’t really put my finger on why I like it…
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Who flipped it better featuring CFCF →
Here’s another gold star for the internet: Mike Silver was just another 21-year old Canadian dude a year ago when he decided to enter a Crystal Castles remix contest. He won the…
The Ruby Suns-Sea Lion →
If Paul Simon, New Order, and Panda Bear got together and made an album with Brian Wilson as the producer it might sound something like this. From California by way of New Zealand, The Ruby…
Where's Hip hop Goin? Its Chicagoan. →
Contemporary hip hop takes the most flak for lacking one thing my man F. Stokes will never be accused of missing : authenticity. From the opening slam to the final note, this debut effort…
Those Smart Guys →
Much has been written about Vampire Weekend - they appropriate sounds, rip off Paul Simon, revel in pretension, right conscientiously incongruous lyrics, and on and on. I did not really…
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RUMOR: DAFT PUNK TO PLAY YANKEE STADIUM IN 2010 →
An Australian website has leaked unofficial tour dates for the upcoming Daft Punk TRON Legacy tour. If these dates turn out to be true it would mean that Daft Punk would play Yankee…
Homegrown tunes from SF - Chido →
OK, I’ve been lookin for some feedback on my own shit, and I figured what better venue than to throw it up here amongst the critics extraordinaire. Some of you I know quite well, others not at all,…
Daily Grooves →
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Young-Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut
One and Done Feel-Good 90's Pop-Rock →
All you kids be posting some of that ill new shit: droppin’ the dope flow like an elderly urethra after a diuretic. I’m a make this plain and true for ya’ll. I know very little to nothing…
C'est Supercool →
New video from Air. This makes me think that these guys would be perfect for the next Bond theme song. So French, So Air, so chouette.
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Lack of Afro - For You
All Good in the Hood →
The Hood Internet are two Chicago DJs who mix rap and R&B acapellas over pop songs, producing epic party mixes and ridic live shows. What’s that smartass? You liked them better when they…
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Billie Holiday + palm-thatched hut in 1940's... →
Imagine yourself being thrust back into the 1940’s, deep into the bowells of New York, in some underground jazz club. The air is ripe with the smell of smoke, booze is flowing…
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What were you doing 10 years ago? →
In the year 2000, people were just getting over the whole Y2K thing, Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP changed the rap world, and Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ was the best thing EVER. But there was…
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You ever notice that the people who hate hipsters...
theidiotking:
(via ronbabcock)
That’s definitely the Tegan calling the Sara white.
“Jealousy is just a map, that’s all it is. If you’re jealous of someone, what it...”
– Patton Oswalt on Comedy & Everything Else #48. He kinda trails off, mainly because the hosts interrupt him, but he’s basically saying, yes, if you think of it as a map you can find your way to where you want to go. Via Meghan. (via perpetua)
Some real talk for 2010
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Blue Sky Black Death - Days Are Years
That Fly Shit →
You have probably heard about Blakroc by now - an impressive collaboration between the Black Keys, Damon Dash, and a slew of hip hop artists. Mos Def, Jim Jones, Rza, Raekwon,…