Since this is the first time I’ve actually written down a year end list for publication, allow me to subject you to the navel gazing I’ve been doing for the last 2 weeks. Should I include more obscure musics on my list? Should I put more Vancouver artists on the list? If everyone else puts [...]
Moments into “Fire Engine Dream,” an outtake from the Sonic Nurse sessions in 2003, Sonic Youth begins to deliver an almost encyclopedic, note for note, version of themselves; a noisy, brash Sonic Youth reminiscent to a version of Public Image Limited lacking the electronics and boasting heavier emphasis on crass audible devolution. Surprisingly are [...]
It may or may not have started with Nas’ “Ether” back in 2001, but after both ended up together with Def Jam someone had to take the reigns in cracking down on Jay-Z and in 2006 Cam’Ron stood up ready to battle. Though the roots to both Cam’Ron and Dipset as a whole disputing [...]
Here are four things I’m truly enthusiastic about, and perhaps they might not all have been created this year, but they were all new to me in ‘06. So, in no particular order:
1. FOUR VOLTS - “Triple Your Work Force”. There are tons of bands trying to inherit a forward-thinking mantle while building off [...]
A fresh video produced by Mazik Saevitz which features John Yancey, Common, Will.I.AM, Black Thought and Talib Kweli among others was recently released from J Dilla’s 2006 album The Shining. I feel poor for not having been a fan of his music while he was alive and poorer yet for knowing that we don’t [...]
I don’t believe any of us can recall the very first time we heard James Brown, but more than likely it was through some commercial project attempting to utilize “I Got You (I Feel Good)” or “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (Part 1).” Chances are though, that if you’re a fan of the [...]
To even the non-believers, I say…good music still exists, and on this day of days it is provided in two lump sums. The first being the twenty four song Christmas themed mash-up mix “Santastic II: Clausome,” presented by Boston bootlegger dj BC. The second is a not-so-Christmas themed holiday sampler provided by Fat [...]
Though it wont be released for another month, Norah Jones’ highly anticipated third studio album Not Too Late stands as something that could either identify her as a centerpiece of her generation, or demote her to a once triumphant musician now fading into the shadow of her celebrity. Having emerged as one of the [...]
In 2006 The Sky Drops recorded and released our debut EP Clouds of People, toured the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard, played several shows in London, and started preparing new songs for our next release for early 2007. I had less time than usual for seeking out new bands but I quite enjoyed the “don’t call [...]
There’s something far deeper and challenging beneath the surface of GQ’s recent Man of the Year award which was given to hip hop breakout Lupe Fiasco. The award’s meaning doesn’t come as relevant simply for the fact that it further supports hip hop as an outreach to both urban and suburban cultures, but in [...]
It’s been an interesting year because I expected our album to come out, but that’s what happens when you expect something. Thank the universe for showing us who’s the boss and slowing us down; something always comes along and turns us into something else. 2007 is going to be an exciting year for [...]
How is it that the band with one with the year’s best EP in disguise as a LP can be so unknown? Not even in sense that your borderline indie, borderline corporate music mag hasn’t written about them. Not in the sense that the once-underground, now far above sea level internet hype hasn’t [...]
The DVD begins and the world is transformed, a first person experience as a man with a mission, on an evening like no other, a socialites dream somewhere in a mansion in the deep South. An estate lost in the backwoods, one which you arrive to as your horse drawn buggy calmly smoothes its [...]
I think it’s always a good year for music, whether or not you consider the albums that have been released that year to be good work. Music that we deem bad can still have a positive effect by pushing us toward something different, distinct from whatever it is we didn’t like about it. [...]
In 2006 mash-ups saw a decline in mainstream acceptance as casual listeners lost interest and media outlets which once bolstered the musical niche regressed to their initial state of disinterest. But beneath the increasing skepticism a strong base of bootleggers kept creating music which still found a fan base with their ever-present originality. [...]
You Suck at Photoshop Episode #11
Louis Mulkey and the Green Wave
Culture Bully & DJ MDSB Present: The Best of 2k7
Culture Bully’s 15 Favorite Mashups of 2007
The Top 10 Music Videos of 2007
The Top 5 Albums That Should Have Been Really Good, But Weren’t: 2007
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