Backtrack: #1 Album of 2008

Yeah, yeah, I should’ve mentioned this about, erm, 7 months ago. Nevermind, the best album of a whole year is still going to be pretty damn awesome even a half year later, right?
I did actually make a Top 15 of 2008 list, but never got around to posting it. Things get crazy around the holiday [...]

Backtrack: The Beatnuts, “Off The Books”

You may have asked yourself where the folks from 100b went? I mean, heck, the apartment has been empty for more than a month. You tried ringing the doorbell. You checked with the super. Their mail has been spilling out of their mailbox. Well, I can say we’re back and any squatters in the apartment [...]

Backtrack: Björk, Post

I wouldn’t say I’m a massive Björk fan; I’ve never felt the urge to go see her play live, nor have I ever seen Dancer In The Dark, but Post is one of my favorite albums of the nineties. I was fourteen when it came out and all I knew of electronic music was that [...]

Backtrack: Plushgun, Pins & Panzers

It’s been almost a year and a half since I posted about Plushgun for New Band Day. Since then, Dan Ingala and friends have been signed to Tommy Boy Records, released two EPs and their debut album (Pins & Panzers released last month), and had their music featured on both TV and film soundtracks. Good [...]

Backtrack: Fugazi, “Waiting Room”

While music television and radio were dominated by the sounds of Technotronic, Lenny Kravitz, Madonna, Soul II Soul, Milli Vanilli, The B-52s and The The among others – and I was exiting The U2 Phase and settling into my now life-long Hip Hop Phase – a band from Washington, D.C. packaged up the output from [...]