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Category Archives: Music
Hendrix Lives
February 15, 2010 – 11:44 am
…turns out he’s been on Neptune.
March 9th Janie Hendrix is going all Afeni Shakur and putting out 12 formerly unreleased tracks her brother made during his quick flash of a recording career. How long do we have to wait for a ‘Pac and Jimi collabo?
Kidz is Coming
February 10, 2010 – 6:00 pm
As we await the drop of Kidz in the Hall’s newest, Land of Make Believe, we wanted to take a little look back at the dopeness of Chi-town’s hipster-hop duet and 2008’s The In Crowd.
For a piece I wrote on Kidz lyricist Naledge after his boy Obama swore in hop the jump.
Atlas Sound, Neon Indian at A&L Auditorium 02.04.10
February 10, 2010 – 10:48 am
Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound
Last Thursday’s performance at NYU’s E & L Auditorium was the first for Neon Indian since relocating to Brooklyn from Austin, Texas, and while the band played an exceptionally tight set, their particular brand of psychedelic electro-pop come off as flat, generic, and, tasteless. To the unfamiliar these songs don’t carry [...]
Henry Rollins, Travelin’ Man
February 8, 2010 – 11:40 am
I’m a travellin’ man
Movin’ through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But God willin’ I’m comin’ back to you
Mos Def probably didn’t have Henry Rollins in mind when he wrote the lyrics to his ‘Travellin’ Man,’ but they still fit the writer/rocker/DJ/activist like a glove. Rollins really is the constant traveler, driven [...]
Yeasayer, Odd Blood
February 1, 2010 – 11:38 am
via lablogotheque
Brooklyn-based rock outfit Yeasayer, whose second album Odd Blood officially drops next Tuesday the 9th (it leaked in early December), will be in town to perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg the same night. After 2007’s All Hour Cymbals almost any follow up album would be a let down, but the band’s steep [...]
Eye of the Storm: Walter Martin of The Walkmen
January 28, 2010 – 11:46 am
A storm has seized the streets of Brooklyn. Vanderbilt Avenue through Prospect Heights is a ghost town—windows shutter and awnings snap in the epic gusts. But Walter Martin, bassist and organist of the band The Walkmen, lights into a quiet coffee shop the very picture of serenity. His waxed-cotton biker jacket shows hardly a drop of [...]
Kairos by White Hinterland
January 27, 2010 – 9:41 pm
The most striking element of White Hinterland’s latest album, Kairos (Dead Oceans), is its focus on the human voice, the strongest and most unique instrument that any on person can utilize. White Hinterland’s (Casey Dienel and Shawn Creeden) instrumentation is light and carefully inserted into each song, and not utilized as a means of overcompensateing for a [...]
The Future Is Now… and It’s Dark
January 25, 2010 – 3:50 pm
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Discuss amongst yourselves and comment…
Handsome Furs at Maxwell’s 01.20.10
January 25, 2010 – 1:28 pm
If Dan Boeckner and Alexi Perry have any shame about indulging in just about every cliché from the rock and roll handbook, they sure do a nice job of hiding it. As Handsome Furs, the married duo essentially lives out every angst-ridden teenagers’ dream. That is, to start a band, run away from home with [...]
