I’ve been listening to Deerhunter’s new album Microcastle nonstop since it leaked a month or so back. I want to post almost every song (with album openers “Agoraphobia” and “Never Stops” at the top of my list) but understand that having an album leak before a release date is even set has got to feel [...]
Delicious Vinyl recently commissioned a bunch of artists to do remixes of their most well-known songs - I just picked up the album and while all of the tracks do good service to their predecessors, the one I really wanted to hear was how “What’s Up Fatlip?“. Thankfully Breakbot keep the original intact while re-imagining [...]
This new Dilla track just showed up online and it is dope as expected. Pretty reserved - sounds like it was probably just a demo - but even in rough form Dilla is better than 99.9% of producers. The other track is one of my favorite Dilla beats of all time that I’ve been meaning [...]
I love Outkast and every incarnation that as arisen from their quasi-fallen ashes. I am admittedly much more partial to Andre 3000 , but if you compare what he did this week to what Big Boi did, I have to nod my head to the other side of the coin this time:
Big Boi: “Something’s Gotta [...]
Go here to see the full piece of art. Via Rhizome:
Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards” has been blogged to hell, but Peter at Create Digital Motion hits the nail on the head with why this is so cool - open-source software used to distribute the video and CC licensing the code so it is free to use under specific conditions.
Yes, it is also [...]
It is things like this that make me miss Seattle - this wouldn’t happen anywhere else:
Joel Kimmel makes outrageous portraits of NBA players. Better update Baron’s colors though… (via FtB):
Lil Wayne is from Mars and finally has a beat that sounds like it came from the same place. Flying Lotus is an insane producer and this is out of control good (via GvB):
Flying Lotus: “Robo-Tussin (Feat. Lil’ Wayne)”
for lil wayne shoot by tamararara
I’m remiss in that I haven’t posted this video yet:
Even more so now that this surfaced on the net - I love the appropriation of British slang: