A while ago, Tam and I decided to make mix CDs for each other of all the stuff we listened to in high school. It’s been hilarious digging through my CDs and remembering back to when I was a bad-ass rebel, running wild in the streets. (Seriously. I swear I wasn’t a dork.) I can’t [...]
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A few years ago, when we still got Cartoon Network here in Amsterdam, I had problems sleeping. So I started flipping channels in the middle of the night and the only things still on were National Geographic and Cartoon Network. I would watch National geographic til it started to repeat itself and then I’d flip [...]
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I heard about Alterkicks, somewhere or other, over a year ago, before their first single was even recorded. What I heard was a rough version of “Do Everything I Taught You”, and I excitedly bought the single when it was released last year. And I bought their next single, “Oh Honey”, as well. But it [...]
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These days the Fat Boys are regarded as just a friendly novelty rap group, but I thought they were awesome. I was four and I loved them overweight rappers to pieces. They were my first introduction to beatboxing and they made me want to have a cool nickname. Twenty years later I still haven’t come [...]
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I reckon it would be pretty anti-climactic if I had done a whole London Calling Preview thing without giving any sort of review in the end. But I try to make it a point not to review things, since it’s all in the eye of the beholder and stuff. But we did have a fantastic [...]
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