How many times can you approximate an approximation before you’re left with a cardboard cutout? Musical influences often get sliced ever thinner until you end up with a 2D model that looks an awful lot like the real thing but plays totally flat. Considering that most pop stars start out cardboard and then try to [...]
The Whole Story: White Rabbits FORT NIGHTLY
Grade B+
White Rabbits? It’s more like wild horses the way these songs gallop over the horizon, kicking up swirls of dust and gaining speed the closer they get. Before they’re even in full view you can fell the ground rumbling. Its not the shaking of an Earth quake, it’s the beating of steady foot stomps. [...]
Singular Sensation: Lil Wayne – “Living For Dying”
Weezy’s cleaned out his medicine chest and now he’s got no one to talk to, minus the voice in his head that keeps reminding him he’s all alone. If you pitch enough product to the smokers, you might just end up with some amount of sympathy for your clientle. You can’t stay high forever and [...]
Eye Drops: Walk It Out Fosse
Gwen Verdon deserves another Tony for hot stepping like this. Fosse choreography is classic to the bone and there’s not music worth hearing that wouldn’t benefit from jazz hands. DJ Unk thought he was on some new shit when he started walkin it out. Little did he know he was following in the footsteps of two [...]
Singular Sensation: Ca$hmere- “Da Titties”
I’ve started doodling on my notebook, day dreaming about seeing Daft Punk this weekend. Little robot helmets. I ♥ Neon Pyramids. Innocent school girl scribbles. All the stuff love is made of.
So what better way to celebrate this festive occasion than a little ghetto-tech homage to the masked Frenchmen…or are they men at all? Regardless, Ca$hmere mounts the classic “Ass [...]
Eye Drops: TheSaurus & Illmaculate
2006 Scribble Jam winner and all around fire sparker TheSaurus spits cinders off the dome over and over in this clip. There’s no question my man is distinquished and I’d hazard the rent on him in cipher. He’s one of those Back to the Future MCs. The kind of dude who returns a serve before [...]
Singular Sensation: Cassie featuring Ryan Leslie – “Sometimes”
Its pretty obvious why producer Ryan Leslie got a “featuring” shout in the title, and I can assure you it wasn’t for the limp verse he hangs in the middle of the track. Its for the schmaltzy Baby-Neptunes beat he cooks up. Any off the strip Vegas act would be proud to work a room as [...]
The Whole Story: Chris Garneau – MUSIC FOR TOURISTS
Grade B-
Everything on Music for Tourists comes easily. Chris Garnaeu seems all but allergic to exertion and he plays his way through the entire album with as little effort as he can muster while still forcing the words out. Not to be confused with weakness or frailty, its more a matter of being overly gifted. [...]
Eye Drops: “White Chicks and Gang Signs”
Coming soon: The white girl suicide bomber.
