Who is Blu?
Blu is a 25 year old rapper from California. XXL recently named him one of the Top 10 Freshmen of 09'. Not sure exactly how they define freshman, since to date, he has released three full-length albums, one under the name Blu, one with the group C.R.A.C. Knuckles, and one with Johnson & Johnson.
He just released a mixtape entitled HerFavoriteColo(u)r which can be found via zShare and Mediafire
HerFavoriteColo(u)r is basically a laid-back, hip-hop pastiche of Billie Holiday, Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, Ella Fitzgerald, Radiohead, among other well-chosen source material.
This is definitely some of the freshest production and rhyming I've heard in a while. Also, no autotune or Lil Wayne, which is turning out to be a major plus.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Blu(e).
Friday, February 13, 2009
KRIL RADIO
Hi guys, just wanted to let everyone know that the cool dudes/dudettes from The Red River have a radio station which can be accessed via the internet, making it a podcast? What, I don't know how the internet works these days... it all seems ready to implode on itself from being too big. OH WELL.
http://shakeemloose.com/radio2009.html
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Happy Melted City
Boy, the title of this blog should be something like, Black Moth Super Rainbow stand-in for twitter. Too bad suckaz! It ain't!...Well, for now anyway... Beta Carnage, the guy responsible for the visuals in the Tobacco dvd made a video for "Happy Melted City," a "dope" track off of Bonus Drippers that is a perfect visual representation of how you should feel inside while listening to this. It's so trippy, especially the part where a father and son somehow gave the mom the idea it was okay for her to play football with them, trippin hard yo.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Rockwell, Mysto & Pizzi and... ... ... Geico?
While watching the Blazers drop some bows on the Jazz tonight, a commercial for Geico came on using a raved-out remix of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me," done by Mysto & Pizzi. Normally this kind of thing could be pretty cool but the original has got that special something that (cough, MICHAEL JACKSON????) just makes it undeniably good. Plus the video is just all 80's horrored out and corny. Well, anyway, you be the judge.
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Amid Much Fanfare, Undoubtedly.
Every Saturday night from 8pm to 9pm, I'll be playing some songs on the radio. Go to KWCW.net and click the "Listen In" link (located directly below the webcam image). If you're in the Walla Walla area, tune into 90.5 fm. Hip Hop Hooray, ho.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Am I Someone Worth Loving?
(Yep, looks fun to me)
Teenagers From OuterSpace is two dudes from Cypress, Cali laying down some pretty good party jamz. The two songs on their myspace are off of their first album, Summer In Space, which comes out Feb. 17th. The synthed out booty bass and handclaps (think high-fives) seem a little early for 2009 but maybe they are on to something... Maybe in the future and in space people will realize how tight bands are that put out summer albums in the dead of winter just because they feel like it.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Vacuuuuuuuuuuum
So what do you do with 2012 looming in the not so distant future? Some may run for their lives and others may run to the nearest gun store but the Austrian-born Christian Fennesz, mostly credited as just Fennesz, seems content to just stand there and provide the somber soundtrack for everyone. Vacuum, the third song off of Fennesz's latest release, Black Sea, is like most of his other songs in that it's fuzzy and ambient but this one is just so full of emotion... okay it's corny to fall for this stuff but what's great about the song is that while it is pretty bleak the warmth and fuzz of it all counter that as little blips and zips tinker around in the background like diamonds in the rough. If you like epic stuff definitely get this album, it's like one big epic soundtrack to a life that...wait, what am I even talking about?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Snooze News
Remember how Mum's last album Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy came out not too long ago in '08? According to some myspace rumblings they have finished a new album and plan on playing many shows this year. And in case you were wondering about their feelings on the status government in Iceland–"The Icela
