DJ Martian's Page (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
via Mitchell Stirling @ Acclaimed Music Forum Uncut Magazine - Top 50 Albums of 2009 1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years 3. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 4. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life 5. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 6. XX – The XX 7. Wilco – Wilco (The Album) 8. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest...
Hear-It-First.net (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Snoop (Left), Pharrell (Middle), X.O. (Right). This dude has been dropping hot tracks for a while now, and rolls with Black Wallstreet. Check out his new track Step Ya Game Up Featuring Pharrell, posted below. HI have been listening to him for quite a while, i’m glad to be able to reach out to this talented [...]
Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
American Idol winner Fantasia has announced that she will release her new single in January, followed by her third album in March. The single release is believed to be coinciding with Fanty’s new VH1 reality show, which will document her struggles as a single mother and recording artist. Expect production from Raphael Saadiq, Midi Mafia, Missy Elliott, Rock City, Eric Hudson, and Rich King who...
Narrowcast (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
26. Trick Daddy - Thug Matrimony: Married To The Streets (Slip-N-Slide Records/Atlantic Records, 2004) Trick’s made so many good albums, but this is the one that has a perfect balance of filthy sex raps (“J.O.D.D.”), fight music (“Fuckin’ Around”), bass jams (“Down Wit Da South”), pop singles (“Sugar”) and adorably gruff inspirational songs...
Celebutopia (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
In the late 80’s/early 90’s, Raphael Saadiq was part of a well-known R&B group called Tony Toni Tone and had a string of popular hits including, “If I Had No Loot”, “Anniversary”, and “It Never Rains In Southern California”. Towards the mid-90’s, Raphael parted with the group and started a semi-successful solo career beginning with [...]
...my own true Hollywood story.... (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Imagine that you have a time machine. Which deceased musician would you most want to travel back in time to watch perform live? Submitted By crazyprotein View 123 Answers AMADEUS!!! But tonight I saw Raphael Saadiq LIVE... and his show is kind of like time in a bottle too... but infused with genius and not at all like a 60s cover band, he has the gift to make it NEW and vibrant and real and his sidemen...
BmoreFab! (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
R&B crooner and one of my favorites, Raphael Saadiq will be performing at Rams Head Live (20 Market Place) on December 6th. This is a perfect for a girls night [...] Find out more on Bmore Fab!
The Liberators of Hip Hop (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Gogoluver I know this has been mentioned for a while now but New York hip hop has been dead for some time now. Fabolous' music has gone way down the drain to the point of return. Cory Gunz was on the classic XXL Freshmen cover but is just as important to the industry right now as his fellow classmate Ace Hood. Let us not even get on Charles Hamilton... Okay, but possibly Skyzoo could be the Savior...
Scooter McGavin's 9th Green (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There have been a couple of videos that have caught my eye lately so I thought I’d give them some love since the death of Musical Television left a void for a forum on the art form. If you are interested in buying the video through iTunes, click the title link (where available). If you are interested in buying the song, look for a link in the analysis. Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart - Alicia...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ 11am) for the two Magnetic Fields shows happening at Town Hall. BAM tickets are currently on sale to 'Friends of BAM'. Tickets are on AmEx presale (@ 11am) for the Hot Chip / xx...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Audion, Pezzner, James Grindle, Travis Baron (Triple Door) Matthew Dear is best known for his morose, song-oriented tech-house output. But as Audion, Dear produces techno that's jacked up on amyl nitrite and Viagra (sample track titles: "Titty Fuck," "Just Fucking") and imbued with the springiness of Olympic high jumpers' quadriceps. For this tour (dubbed "Hecatomb"),...
SFist (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce , providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter . Too many choices are always better than not enough, and this week won't disappoint, concert-wise. Bay Area favorites Religious Girls and The Fresh & Only's play the Elbo Room tonight, supergroup-to-end-all-supergroups Them...
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Although this song is more in the style of a classic duet, "Take Me" is all about Teedra Moses. The way she punches and lilts her voice during the chorus, her measured loftiness in areas where she could blow Raphael...
PUT ME ON IT (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Apologies for the bulk of this post but I've been busy. Again. Had to share a few videos that have been floating around and caught my eye... I like Pac Div . I like black and white videos. I like this song. Muhsinah is always on point of course and I broke my neck bopping the first time I watched this little teaser for "The Oscillations:Triangle" due for release on iTunes Dec 1st. Raphael...
COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
by Julie Wolfson Easily one of the most iconic landmarks in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Bowl Poster Art Show commemorates the memorable concerts that draw crowds of thousands each summer with an exhibition of the many colorful posters produced for recent and historic Hollywood Bowl performances. David Weidman's print—a bright yellow-and-fuchsia sun shining over the Bowl, surrounded by palm trees—perhaps...
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