With the exception of the Q-Tip produced That’s My Bitch we posted a while back, you may be wondering why we haven’t even mentioned Kanye & Jay-Z’s self-proclaimed “sophisticated ignorance,” and well the reasons are just to vast to get into. However, my boy Nate sent me an hilarious/amazing review by one of “Wu-Tangs elite” [...]
Nothing like a little nu-disco to start the weekend off right. Foreign Language compliments of Flight Facilities is pretty much the type of bachelor pad music many have come to identify with EMPT. Like 95% of music it’s a love song but romance over disco is unique because regardless of the emotion the beat still [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
So much has happened in the last year, EMPT continues to grow, I’ve got a wonderful team of writers on the rise, Ryan Radler and Steph are coming with the freshest mixtapes on either side of the globe and all we havent even started. Still, I’ve had enough ups and downs this year to last [...]
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Like the flowers needs the rain, like blind man needs his cain, I need you… If you haven’t noticed mixtapes are a big deal around these parts but there’s none more significant than our beloved LMDM by Steph Lund. Month after month, no matter the weather, you can come here and find a new fresher [...]
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Tagged Air France, Beirut, Chrome Sparks, Dinora, Discovery, Holiday Shores, Le Crayon, Neon Indian, On-The-Go, Priors, Santogold, Steffaloo, Switch and Sinden, Wise Blood
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My thoughts must be relaxed, be able to maintain, cause times have changed and life is strange…” I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine about how this next year really has the potential to be a big one for us. We got that awkward first year as a post grad under our [...]
Ah yes Monday, Sunday’s hangover returns once again… In recent news, the S&P downgraded the U.S. Credit and apparently no one knows what that means, the stock market is in shambles and it’s only getting worse, Big Boy from Outkast got arrested on drug charges, great times all around my friends. Thankfully, Mondays on EMPT now [...]
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Tagged Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Chas Jankel, Classixx, Depeche Mode, Franci Lai, Friendly Fires, I Blame Coco, Miami Horror, Mickey Moonlight, RAC, Ring Track, Roysopp, Tame Impala, The Radio Dept., Washed Out, Work Drugs
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Ah another blissful tune from Fallulah has entered the realms of my strange and blessed world these days. As I multi-task a million different things at work, (something I’ve become sadly good at) I’ve been listening to two artists. Fallulah, and quite drastically different, Jay-Z/Kanye’s latest album, Wath the Throne…we’ll save that conversation for another [...]