Yer MTV was actually pretty entertaining last night:
1. That indeed was Clipse standing behind Pharrell during the pregame show. Pusha T and Malice were nowhere to be found later, though. Sigh.
2. Mark Ronson should call his band the Neverending Formula.
3. Dave Grohl should curate a hardcore-and-metal version of All Tomorrow's Parties.
4. Dr. Dre now has [...]
Cherkis' shout-out to Melody Records yesterday got me thinking about the venerable Dupont Circle shop. If you've been inside, or even passed by it, you know that it's celebrating 30 years in business this summer.
In this era of iTunes, Limewire, and overall diminishing CD sales, that's no small feat...especially for an independent record store. When [...]
Like most tech-savvy music fans in this age of aesthetically-pleasing-yet-flimsily-constructed electronic gadgets, I own an Apple iPod. And, as happens to many iPod owners, mine eventually broke.
I continue to hold no suspicion that the inevitable demise of my fourth-generation "click wheel" iPod had anything to do with the near-simultaneous release of Apple's fifth-generation, full-color, video-capable [...]
While doing research for a review of M.I.A.'s Kala, I was struck by all of the references to "Baltimore hip hop" and "Baltimore club beats" as influences on the new record. (Don't believe me? Just Google "Kala" and "Baltimore.")
Well, as it turns out, the only connection I could find is Baltimore's Blaqstarr, who produces "The [...]
Former CP critic Michael Little has decided to go after this blog. He writes on his own blog:
"We've been reading the Washington City Paper's music blog lately. It's mediocre, and we're not saying that because the City Paper unceremoniously fired our ass and because we could write a better and more entertaining blog with [...]
Over the course of the week I've had occasion to leaf through two separate books of photography–Pat Graham's Silent Pictures and Glen E. Friedman's Fugazi: Keep Your Eyes Open–that document indie music in and out of D.C. through the '90s and into the early part of this decade.
I've come to this conclusion: D.C. of 2007, [...]
OK. I’m biased. Of course I prefer Aaron Leitko’s review of the new Travis Morrison album, All Y’All, to the one in Pitchfork. The former is in a publication that puts money in my bank account and the latter is in one that doesn’t. That said, a 4.5?!? Anyone with internet access can tell that [...]
At first I was pretty sure that Green Bay, Wisconsin's Pink Reason was more backstory than substance. Everything I read about him seemed to arrive with a lengthy preamble about "shooting Drano in his parents crawlspace for five years," or some similar cred-building drug-myth-horseshit. I guess if you smoke some meth and bang out [...]
As District residents, we will claim anything as a homegrown creation. I get go-go. I get harDCore. But I don't get hand dancing. So let's debate: Isn't hand dancing really just the half-smoke of dancing–an ever so slight variation on a common thing?
Take a look and tell me I'm wrong.
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"I Get Money" is just 50 being 50–bored as hell and fully aware that the joke is on you. And I love every second of it, at least for today. He didn't work hard, he worked smart. Another rapper might've tried to dandy up [...]
