Tibi PuiuWhat the heck just happened? No, seriously, WHAT happened, Maya? As if it wasn’t enough M.I.A.’s new album is totally disappointing, with respect to general musical standards (If I were to compare “Maya” to her previous other two records… well, you get the idea), last night’s Letterman performance topped anything one could call pathetic. I’m still pretty shocked! Honestly, I’m not even sure if it was bad BAD or intentionally bad – you never fucking…
Listener: ‘Ozark Empire, Or A Snake Oil Salesman Comes To Your Town’
Folks, I give you Talk Music! If up ’till now you happen to be unfamiliar with Dan Smith’s sound, better know as Listener, then be happy and rejoice for you have now come across one of the few artists in the scene today that can actually think with both heart and brains. His new album called “Wooden Heart” is out today, July 6th, and I urge anyone who’s keen on dwelling into a mind reinvigorating…
Roots Remix God. Sort Of.
Al Byrne
Q: What did Scott Adams name the ill-advised cyborg character in his persistent comic strip, Dilbert? A: Ro-Bert! Ha Ha Ha Ha! That’s a pretty good joke, no? Still, that’s not nearly as good as this thing: a Roots-remixed version of Monsters of Folk’s prettiful ode to fairy tales, “Dear God”. Imaginatively titled “Dear God 2.0”, it’ll be appearing on The Roots’ new album How I Got Over, released on June 22. Also, it seems…
New M.I.A.: ‘XXXO’
Clearly on a whole different level than that of the incisive “Born Free”, this new M.I.A. radio rip, allegedly titled “XXXO” , sports a more mainstream appeal, venturing into a pop friendly sound. It’s not your typical pop, though – far from it. It’s different and tight, something that only the likes of dubstep legends Blaqstarr and Rusko, who handled the production work for the track, can deliver.
New M.I.A. video: ‘Born Free’ (M.I.A.)
Violent, aggressive, and disturbing is nothing but M.I.A.’s latest video for her latest single “Born Free”, which just recently leaked on the web. It’s better to leave this short for words, so I’ll leave you to Romain Gavras’s directed video below. Free the ginger kids! M.I.A.’s still untitled third album will be allegedly out June 29th.
The new M.I.A. album is set to be ‘her most honest yet’
In a recent interview for Rolling Stone, the flavorful Maya Arulpragasam or M.IA., as she most known in the in hip-hop scene, revealed a myriad of scrumptious details regarding her upcoming, still untitled, new album. She confesed to RS, among others, that she wasn’t all that happy with how Kala come out to be (for what’s it worth, we were very happy with it, Maya), and that her new material will be her ‘back to…
Songs of the decade: “Classic (Better Than I’ve Ever Been)”
Steve Lampiris
Kanye West, Nas, KRS-One and Rakim | “Classic (Better Than I’ve Ever Been)” | 2007 The Aughts have been rather stingy with its worthwhile posse cut output. In fact, besides “Better Than I’ve Ever Been”* I can’t recall a notable example. It’s a shame, really. Posse cuts used to be a place where a half-dozen or more emcees could all rock the mic together – even while rapping about unrelated subject matter – and it…
[VIDEO] N.A.S.A. – ‘Spacious Thoughts’ (feat. Tom Waits and Kool Keith)
One of the most interesting projects of the year was N.A.S.A’s “The Spirit of Apollo”, a five year in the making, 18-track album, which featured three-dozen guest stars from mainstream rock and hip-hop stars to obscure, yet very talented high-profile street performers. “Spacious Thoughts”, one of the tracks off Apollo, is a collaboration between N.A.S.A. and two true giants of their own respective scenes, Tom Waits and Kool Keith. Impressive names to go with a…
Songs of the decade: “99 Problems”
Jay-Z | “99 Problems” | 2004 The thing about Rick Rubin is that he’s concurrently the most and least talented producer of the Aughts. It’d be fascinating if he weren’t so sought after and considered a sultan of sorts. But since he is, it’s horribly irritating because you never know what the results are gonna be, whether he’s producing an entire album of sparse yet hard-hitting beats, masterminding a phenomenal comeback record, ruining Weezer or…
Best songs of the decade: “Lose Yourself”
Eminem | “Lose Yourself” | 2002 The best Eminem songs are the ones in which he actually has something to say, and usually it’s either something that will later start a controversy (like “’97 Bonnie & Clyde”) or discuss some controversy to which he’s been connected (like “The Way I Am”). Yet, “Lose Yourself” doesn’t discuss anything in Eminem’s life. Well, not his real life anyway. Instead he opted to first take an omniscient view…