Notoriously outspoken, political Hip Hop ensemble The Coup has never gotten more attention then when they were planning to release their fourth album in 2001 – of all years – with the cover featuring … wait for it … Pam the Funkstress and Boots Riley blowing up the World Trade Center, yep the whooole thing! [...]
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No Cities Left is a beautiful album that never really managed to capture my attention. I have no particular reason why Canadian band The Dears doesn’t make the soundtrack of my life, because their songs are such well-written, grand, orchestral productions and I like them individually, but as a full album it just doesn’t do [...]
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Last month, when tha dawgg and I visited Rough Trade East, I was intrigued by an album with a cool cover. Of course I passed it up like a dumbass and regretted it almost immediately. I picked it up a couple weeks ago and it’s even better than the cover made it look. The album [...]
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I’m a great big dork and love reading about music almost as much as I love listening to it. I’d like to tell you about some of the music books I’ve enjoyed, on a monthly basis, if you’d like to hear about them. To start things off this month, I’ve got two books I’ve recently [...]
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This weekend I was watching Waitress with the Bean and heard the theme song from one of the more charming McG productions evar, Chuck. Of course, this made me realize the Chuck theme wasn’t just a tv show theme. But, who was it? Well, if you don’t already know, it’s called “Short Skirt, Long Jacket” [...]
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