Of the many descriptors one could apply to Washington, prideful is not always one of them. Yachad, a Jewish group that develops low-income housing and neighborhoods around D.C., is certainly trying to fix things up where it can. But the group's Our City Film Festival, however, is gushing with civic enthusiasm. And why not? There [...]
Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
Tittsworth:
-'Losing my' ...lust for porn. Is that what that R.E.M. song was all about!?
-According to the guard, low pants was started cuz they didnt give belts in prison + u would get shit too big. Baggy bottom prison bait
-The word 'hipster' has similarities to the n word.. [...]
Sampling the thought streams of D.C. musicians past and present.
Rob Myers (Fort Knox Five, Thievery Corporation):
-Selecting tracks w/ Raskin for the FK5 set in Bmore @ Solstice. 60 min of hits! On the mic: Asheru, Mustafa, Rootz & Z, it's hard to choose!
-2:40am Frank Mitchell behind the wheel of 1 of 60 extant [...]
Thievery Corporation will be playing three nights at the 9:30 Club. This is becoming a January tradition for the classy, dubby duo. They will be spinning their haunted downtempo tunes on Jan 21, 22, and 23. Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m.
Go ahead, call them chill-out. Deride them as background music. Thievery Corporation is having the last laugh. Now three nights into an epic sold out five-night stand at 930 Club it's quite apparent that if the group does indeed dwell in the slow-groovin' coffee shop of electronic music, well, it's a coffee shop that everybody [...]
Pitchfork slams the new Thievery Corporation album, Radio Retaliation. The reviewer gives it a 2.6. Ouch. There's no mention in the review of the Chuck Brown cut. That alone is worth more than a 2.6! But here's what the Pitchfork critic had to say in their first graph:
"Even at the height of their popularity in [...]
Chuck Brown's still got it. And the duo plays to his strengths laying down some solid rhythms. The damn fine tune is off the duo's latest album Radio Retaliation. I have one question: Where did Thievery Corporation get that Caddy?
