December 2010
8 posts
slept-on beat records of 2010
Last week over at Passion of the Weiss the most futon-friendly beat releases of 2010 were listed for those too busy listening to, uh, releases that weren’t these. I wrote about Shed’s The Traveller and Starkey’s Ear Drums and Black Holes. THE TRAVELLER (shed) Berlin techno auteur Shed veers off course with his second album instead of continuing where 2008’s club-minded Shedding...
Dec 24th
jukeboxing 21.12.10
“RUNAWAY (ft. PUSHA T)” (kanye west) The anti-“Heartless”, this is what Kanye would’ve came up with had he waited six months to record 808s & Heartbreak instead of six days. [9] “RIGHT THRU ME” (nicki minaj) Nicki’s got about five singles floating around right now, and this see-what-sticks approach is a sign her label isn’t quite sure how to market her. She almost...
Dec 21st
“Pop music is about erasing yourself and seeing what’s left.”
– Dan Bejar, of Destroyer and sometimes the New Pornographers.
Dec 17th
“That girl’s a 7…maybe an 7.5 after a few drinks. She’s like a Gucci Mane...”
– (via sonraw)
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
tron legacy: the mixtape (cadence weapon)
Another piece for the Edmonton Journal: Mixtapes used to be hype builders and training grounds for rappers to work on their form and technique — now mixtapes are nearly the entire output of many rappers. A rapper like Gucci Mane releases his best work on mixtapes, his studio albums just an attempt by major labels to exploit the loyal fanbase he’s built through the 20+ mixtapes he’s released over...
Dec 8th
pilot talk 2 (curren$y)
I’ve been on a tear lately, and I think this is one of my best pieces in recent memory. The album’s not bad, either. You can read the original post over at the mancave Jeff Weiss runs: Over the last several years, frequent collaborators Curren$y and Wiz Khalifa have had reasonably similar career trajectories. Both excel at making sleepy stoner jams equally indebted to Lil Wayne and...
Dec 5th
my beautiful dark twisted fantasy (kanye west)
It’s too bad that Edmonton Journal reviews aren’t included in Metacritic scores, because my review would have helped balance out the ridiculous overpraise this pretty-good-sometimes-great-but-not-best-album-ever record has been receiving over the last few weeks: I’d hate to be the person who has to break it to Kanye West that he’s finally made a bad album. Fortunately ...
Dec 2nd