1998-1999 was dominated by the The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, a truly superb album. I first heard the Lauryn Hill album during a trip to New York City in 1998, the first time I’d traveled back to the States since moving to the Netherlands in 1994. Naturally, I was blown away. The album was about [...]
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I’m calling this a backtrack post, and it will be for a lot of people, but I’m new to Kimya Dawson. I’ve heard a lot of Adam Green and, though I like quite a few of his songs, his potty humor tunes always put me off him a bit. Tha Dawgg and ‘Boosh will tell [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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