Sometimes you have to be a magician to wiggle out of the traps life sets for you. Personally I’ve falllen into spots that would’ve stumped Houdini. Willy Mason knows getting by is a sink or swim proposition and often we start with our hands tied. Panic and you’re going under. Try to stay calm; try to remember everything you learned. Trust your [...]
Singular Sensation: Coki – “Spongebob?”
No one knows the exact name of this song but its about to start rinsing out the dubstep scene from top to bottom. When the Matrix finally short circuits and the machines all crap out, mankind is going to wake up to this. Its going to freak you out but so is realizing we’ve all been asleep for [...]
Eye Drops: Amanda Diva – “40 Emcees”
In a perfect world Amanda Diva and Alicia Keys would get in a fist fight over my love. Alas, the world is an extremely flawed place.
Seems Amanda’s block has a very specific problem of it own, it’s infested with half-hearted emcees. You know what they say about rappers, if you see one there’s at least a hundred [...]
Singular Sensation: Freeway featuring Jay-Z – “Big Spender”
This is the marching song for the International Baller Militia. You can imagine a little drummer boy leading them into battle during the Price Wars. The “hey big spender!” chant might as well be “left, right, left!”. When the president says he wants to expand democracy around the world, I’m pretty sure he means capitalism. They should [...]
The Whole Story: Art Brut – IT’S A BIT COMPLICATED
Art Brut – It’s a Bit Complicated
Grade B
When Art Brut stepped out of the pub and into the public consciousness
with their first album Bang Bang Rock and Roll they sounded like a
group surprised that they were actually being allowed to make music.
Right down to their name, which comes from French painter Jean
Debuffet’s study of so [...]
Singular Sensation: T2 featuring Jodie – “Heartbroken”
I’m can’t get enough UKG right now and thanks to the BBC’s 1xtra I can get my fix here Stateside and stay up on which tunes are burning down the dance floor across the pond. T2 is the reigning king of the 4×4 bassline that’s dominating the scene in North Britain. It’s a return to the [...]
Singular Sensation: Lauren Mason – “Don’t Cry”
I know she says not to but I think I shed a small tear the first time I heard this track. Lauren Mason slaps the song straight across the face, letting a former lover know he can save the theatrics cause the show is over. As brutal as the truth sounds coming from her, it’s down right threatening [...]
Eye Drops: Esmee Denters
I’d suggest you head for high ground now if you don’t want to get swept up in the Esmee Denters tsunami. Serious rumblings have already started on the web and when you feel the Earth shake like this you know a giant wave is about to break. Another example of how the internet is speeding [...]
The Whole Story: Leyode – FASCINATING TININESS
Grade B-
Blues music finds its color in the space between where you desire to
be and where you are in reality. Rarely do these two positions overlap
and its from the dissonance experienced when trying to push their
trajectories towards the same path that many an artist has found this
compelling hue. Trapped in bondage and forced into servitude, [...]
Eye Drops: Dan Deacon – “Crystal Cat”
Occasionally I’m accused of liking things just because they’re strange. Occasionally I watch a video like Dan Deacon’s “Crystal Cat” and think that my critics might be on to something. Thankfully by the time I’m done shooting up freak-junk and losening the belt tied around my mind’s arm, I’m so high off conceit that I forget about [...]
