Show & Tell: Sleigh Bells – Treats
Posted by Simon in Internet, Music, Show & Tell on 12. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Here’s the list: Drake, Justin Bieber, Sleigh Bells. Those are the only three artists I can think of who, without being previously famous, have been so hyped up on the internet that people literally wait at their computers in anticipation of buying their debut album the second it becomes available. Music and musings after the [...]
Drake’s “Find Your Love” by the numbers
Posted by Anupa in Music, Rappers on 11. May, 2010 | 2 Comments
At a very prompt midnight, last night, the new video for Drake’s “Find Your Love” debuted on MTV.com. (Funnily, Canadians were unable to watch until it was uploaded half an hour later by OnSmash). All obviousness aimed at his Degrassi-braised acting chops, marijuana and murking aside, I’m digging the Mavado cameo because he looks hard [...]
The Morning Dump: irony, Do Rappers Read The Walrus?, ew Cthulhus, Did Warren Beatty bed Woody Allen?
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 08. May, 2010 | 2 Comments
Don’t snark at me for posting a link from Pitchfork. I’m not the one who goes on there to gather a list of cool bands to check out (or, more likely, name drop). I read the writing. The writing is good. For example, Nitsuh Abebe‘s Why We Fight column, which discusses the finer points of [...]
All Red Everything – a Charles Hamilton psychological assessment
Posted by Jef in Art, Curiosities, Rappers on 07. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
Let’s take a look at the artwork from a bunch of recent or upcoming hip-hop albums, singles, or mixtapes. 3-D red.
Show & Tell: Alicia Keys – Un-thinkable feat. Drake
Posted by Anupa in Music, Show & Tell on 07. Dec, 2009 | 3 Comments
You play the piano. We get it. Back in high school when Alicia Keys first came out with “Fallin’” I thought I’d never get sick of her piano-laced urban pop, but album after album she slowly dug herself into a monotonous rut by ditching rawness in pursuit of lacklustre power melodies. Her continued reliance on [...]
