I’ll freely admit it: I love classic Caribbean music. Calypso, Ska, Rocksteady, Mento, Bluebeat, Reggae, and other cross-pollinated and intermingling classifications take up a lot of space on my shelves and hard drives. There’s something I find endlessly fascinating about…
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Stretch And Bobbito Reunion at Le Poisson Rouge, 2/10/11: Photos and Review
Sometime around 1990, two guys went into a college radio station late at night and spent the next few hours playing hip-hop records and cracking each other up. They called themselves Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia, and both went on…
Single Review: The Strokes- “Under Cover Of Darkness”
It’s a new Strokes single. And it clearly attempts to play the audience, coming on a little too strong, full of the impulses of old pals trying to pack all the everything in all at once and remind you why…
The Great Unknowns: Freshco & Miz
It was a single mp3 in a folder of old rap tunes I’d gotten from somewhere. I was scanning through, looking for good tracks to DJ with, listening to snippets, hoping for a single beat or a bassline to grab…
Album Review: “The Music Of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection”
Well, this is something. It’s a fairly impressive, 31 track compilation of superhero theme songs from various films and TV shows, covering nearly the entire 75-year history of DC Comics. The oldest track here is the “Superman March” from the…
Stuck In My Head: “The Cannibal Song”
Man, kids’ entertainment used to be so much… Edgier. Creepier. Just plain weirder. I’m currently obsessing over “The Cannibal Song”, a insanely catchy little ditty from Walt Disney’s Addition And Subtraction. This was an educational record from 1963, and the…
Advance Album Review: The Go! Team – “Rolling Blackouts”
The Go! Team: superheroes sent to save pop music from the tyrannical power of no-fun. Their secret hideout laboratory is located not far from here, in a blanket fort, in a treehouse, in a playground, on the corner of Beat…