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He’s Baaaack!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Last year at about this time, I called Eminem “the biggest waste of talent in Hip Hop today.” One year, twenty days and one track later, I’m here to apologize. This morning, Slim Shady dropped two minutes and fifteen seconds of straight fire, he calls Despicable. Spitting over Drake’s Over and Lloyd Banks’ Beamer, Benz […]

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Top Five Albums I Should Have Told You About In December

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I spent a lot of time in December working with The Great White Gypsy, trying to get put together an awesome Best of The Aughts list for the film section. And in doing so, I totally forgot to put together a list of the best records I discovered in 2009. So I’m making up for it now.

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Gull - The Thin King

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

What can one man do with two hands, a bass drum, snare, hi-hat, guitar, crazy fucking mask (a la MF DOOM) and a telephone receiver? If that one man is Gull, he can make one bad ass record. Using his left hand to play the guitar, his right hand on the drums and singing through […]

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Midlake - The Courage of Others

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Ok. I know I’m late on this one. There are probably eight million reviews of this album on the interwebs at this point. But I’ve been meaning to talk about Midlake’s latest release, The Courage of Others ever since their appearance on NPR’s All Songs Considered back in January. They were previewing the album, which […]

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The Rise & Fall of St. Valentine

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The Rise & Fall of St. Valentine illustrates two sides of love—the painfully beautiful and the beautifully painful. The Rise encompasses the feeling of meeting someone, falling in love and the sheer awesomeness of moments spent together. The Fall explores the heartbreaking, angry, lonely haze that follows a love failed.

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Hot Chip - One Life Stand

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

These last few weeks have seen UK-based electropop mainstay Hot Chip getting insane amounts of buzz. In addition to the thousands of blog posts scattered about the web, I’ve gotten texts, phone calls, emails, tweets and every other form of correspondence imaginable urging me to go listen to their new album, One Life Stand. Yet […]

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