December 18, 2008
Another year, another list of the tunes I obsessed over. Some of these are likely to be popular picks all over the internet, but I also want to mention a bunch of albums that haven’t gotten the props they deserve. My favorite albums of 2008:
30. Cool Kids, The Bake Sale
Sparse electronic samples drip and drop […]
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December 10, 2008
Can a change in presidency affect the blinged-out hip hop culture? Chicago rapper and Gap shill extraordinaire Common thinks so. Which means that Obama’s transition team is going all-out to fulfill even the most far-reaching campaign promises. Peep:
But he’s a uniter, people. That’s why he reached across the aisle to be inclusive of all walks […]
Especially in light of my opinion of 808s & Heartbreaks, this free download is like a gift from the heavens. The remix of Nothin But A G Thing is pure genius. Tribe and Busta AutoTuned has to be heard to appreciate how terrible the effect really is. Evidently, I’m not the only one awaiting the […]
November 26, 2008
Bad breakups are no excuse for AutoTune abuse. Surely, Kanye felt he could make more skilled use of this currently-in-vogue production technique than his contemporaries. But ‘Ye drenches every track in the vocal correction software, using the cold sound as a metaphor for his own emotional distance in dealing with his mom’s death and a […]
November 17, 2008
I wanted to wait until after the election to see if the outcome of November 4th would negatively affect my adoration for the latest experiment by TV On The Radio. I can dutifully report that America’s recent Hope Infusion does nothing to diminish the power and immediacy of the Brooklyn sound scientists’ newest jittery and […]
