Groove Music is a new volume from Oxford University Press, a treatise on the four decade evolution of hip-hop culture and the record manipulators who have guided that journey. From the sound system parties in The Bronx in the 70s…
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Single Reviews: Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz/André 3000/James Murphy, Noel Gallagher and Amorphous Androgynous, Evitan, Mark Stewart vs. Primal Scream, Future Of The Left
Arctic Monkeys- R U Mine? This track just showed up out of nowhere last week, a stand-alone single that appeared on YouTube and iTunes and instantly lodged itself in my head on an endless loop. It’s full of the group’s…
The Jungle Brothers: Live at SOB’s, 2/7/2012
On the evening of February 7th, The Jungle Brothers took the stage at SOB’s in lower Manhattan. It was their first gig in six years, their first since 1997 with all three original members, and a historic evening for any…
EP Reviews: Mobb Deep, Kendra Morris
Mobb Deep- Black Cocaine EP (Infamous Records, 2011) The first release in five years from Queesnbridge’s most infamous duo is something of a mixed bag. The five featured tracks are lyrically proficient, but suffer from overly formulaic production. Mid-tempo synth…
Album Review: Wu-Tang And Jimi Hendrix
At the beginnimg of 2010, a music teacher from England made available for download an album he’d created that mixed vocal tracks by the Wu-Tang Clan with beats made from Beatles songs. That collection, Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers, created…
One Song Wonders: 90 M.P.H.- “Mackframalama”
I had never heard this song until a few months ago, and now it’s something that gets stuck in my head and I spin in a large percentage of my DJ sets. Much like the Freshco and Miz record I…
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…
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…