Great track from Neon Neon labelmate, Kid Acne, that summons up some big beat 80’s flavor. A talented graffiti artist as well, Acne’s unique pop art has been exhibited throughout the world and has customized everything from skateboards to bar interiors, and even T-shirt collections for Prada. Who knew? Hit the link [...]
In my last Song Of The Day post I featured “I’m Confused” off of Handsome Furs’ new record. Although I love the band, it was a pretty shitty attempt at a vampire video, and a pretty terrible music video all the way around. Now, Aesop Rock kills it (no pun intended) with his [...]
I had anxiously been awaiting the arrival of Handsome Furs’ newest album, Face Control, which finally came out back on March 10. Like any good fan, I raced to the nearest record store and planned on buying it without a listen. Unfortunately, I decided to hang out at Amoeba for a little bit [...]
What’s going on in Canada? Our neighbors to the north have given us yet another band who likes to play with toys…known simply (and quite terribly) as Holy Fuck. This time, not only are we greeted with toy keyboards as with their fellow countrymen, Sunset Rubdown, but also a cacophany of toy phaser guns and [...]
Ahhh, it’s so nice to have Aesop Rock back. His first two label releases, Float (2000) and Labor Days (2001), sent signals of a massive underground talent to be reckoned with. His beats are strange, dark and beautiful, and he has such a unique cadence to his rhyming that’s hard to compare to [...]
The Dodos are one of the more interesting bands to come out in recent years. Their distinct sound, that some have categorizes as “psychedelic folk”, is essentially the product of just two players, guitarist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber, but they’ve been known to throw in the occasional curveball (ie. xylophones and toy [...]
I remember seeing The Bird and the Bee at the Silverlake Lounge about 3 or 4 years ago when they were still a blip in the mess that is the Los Angeles music scene. Since then they’ve released three studio albums, one EP and two LP’s, and have managed to ride the fine line [...]
Gold Chains rocks BART. It’s so funny because the same thing happened to me on my way to work the other day…
Sometimes overshadowed by contemporaries like The Cool Kids, Spank Rock is part of a growing Baltimore hip-hop scene that’s making its mark by embracing the sounds of old school rap and drum and bass music. The first time I heard this track I was definitely a fan but then at about 3:00 in Amanda [...]
Just take the required two and a half minutes to listen to this track. Blackalicious joins forces with the Cut Chemist (of Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli) on their 1999 EP “A to G” to create one of the most inventive hip-hop tracks of all time. See if you can figure out the theme. [...]
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