Tag: music

  • Get Psyched for the New Kanye West Album

    Lis­ten to “Heart­less” and “Cold­est Win­ter” and tell me this won’t be one of 2008’s sick­est albums. At first I thought this would be a des­per­ate release before Wal-Mart cut music out of its floor­plan. I recant!

  • Dub Colossus — A Town Called Addis

    When two of my favorite crit­ics rec­om­mend some­thing, I lis­ten. First Matt Cibu­la, my favorite world music crit­ic, tipped me to Dub Colos­sus’ new album, A Town Called Addis. Now Jeff Weiss has sec­ond­ed that rec­om­men­da­tion. I’ve lis­tened to the album once and liked what I heard. I’ll be spend­ing more time with it this…

  • SOLANGE!

    Solange Knowles, orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by Black­mail Is My Life. Yes­ter­day I rode my bike over to Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege of Philadel­phia to check out MTV’s Rock the Vote show. Solange was the big high­light for me. She played five songs, includ­ing “Sand­cas­tle Dis­co” and “I Decid­ed.” Her band was great, the back­up singers were real­ly fun…

  • MOVE TO TRASH: THE STREETS — “EVERYTHING IS BORROWED”

    I’m going to start “Move to Trash” as a recur­ring fea­ture for new albums that are big let­downs. First up? The Streets’ lat­est album, Every­thing Is Bor­rowed. As I com­ment­ed on Stere­ogum’s Pre­ma­ture Eval­u­a­tion post, fame has not been kind to Mike Skin­ner. Like his last album, The Hard­est Way to Make an Easy Liv­ing,…

  • WHAT I’M LISTENING TO TONIGHT

    I went to see two doc­tor’s today about my nag­ging right ankle injury today. The ver­dict isn’t bad: I need to rest and take stronger anti-inflam­ma­to­ries. Just a lit­tle ten­donitis, which for me is famil­iar ter­ri­to­ry. Tonight I’ve been icing and doing some house­clean­ing. Literally. I’ve been lis­ten­ing to the lat­est Black Moth Super Rain­bow…