Saturday, October 31, 2009
The sceney New York City nightlife is nothing short of comical. I make it a point to stay away from any place that will involve me saying anything more then my name to a bouncer. But every so often we still end up having one of those plastic conversations with these guys as they judge [...]
I’ve been hesitant to post anything from Illmatic because like anything of good quality it’s not a quick-fix one night stand, you have to listen to the whole album many times to really understand and appreciate all of it’s beautiful details. Also, Illmatic is so complex in terms of rhyme patterns, expression, insight and innovation [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
I was at a party at the Tribeca Loft’s last night and I literally heard every song I’ve ever posted here played in successively. On top of that, the drinks were courtesy of Cognac Tesseron and let me tell you my friends, music is quite a different experience when you have 25 year old Cognac [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
I don’t know where all these new school vintage bands are coming from but I’m loving everyone of them. My latest muse is the workings of Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer who along with their New Orleans based band are making a sun-drenched life-is-good sound I can’t get enough of. When they fight, they fight [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
I dedicate this song to all the historic battles that took place back in 1991 when Street Fighter 2 was released. Cassian is yet another talented Australian producer signed to Bang Gang Records and is known for his numerous remixes of Empire of The Sun, Bag Raiders and so on and so forth. There’s not [...]
Before you read anything, listen to these remixes, the Danger remix is f&*cking amazing. I have a big meeting and some important decisions to make today regarding this blogs future so I woke up craving something boss minded, badass and stimulating. After going back to 1996 and listening to Jay-Z’s Feelin’ It I satisfied most [...]
With the exception of late 80s and 90′s Hip Hop I’m pretty much either completely vintage or contemporary in terms of the kind of music I listen to, there’s not much inbetween. With that said I thought I would bring both of those worlds together for today’s post. I have a thousands of songs I [...]