Archive for the ‘New Music’ Category
Al Green - “All I Need”
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Nothing is missing from this record, Douglas Wolk. This album is amazing, especially considering the current trends.
“Well, here’s the deal. We can’t actually praise an album like this with the current trends. People would think we’re too erratic. Let’s give it a 6.8 (definitely not anything in the 7’s - good god!). Now write a review that justifies that!”
Muxtape Number Two - “What Up Man”
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
NO AGE - “Teen Creeps”
Monday, April 21st, 2008
DFA Mixes from MoMA show
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Kids. You can download the DJ sets from the March 1, 2008 show at MoMA. Click here for four mp3s.
Tokyo Police Club - “The Baskervilles”
Monday, April 7th, 2008
New Music: Okay - “Huggable Dust”
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
In the case of Okay, the pseudonym for one-man band Marty Anderson, once you’ve learned he suffers from a strain of Crohn’s disease and is more or less house- and IV-bound, the urge arises to hear his twin debuts, Low Road and High Road, as expressions of his medical condition, perhaps even as meditations on encroaching mortality.
New Music: Erykah Badu - “Me”, “My People”
Monday, March 31st, 2008
The latest record “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” from Erykah Badu sent chills down my spine this weekend. Walking around Greenpoint Saturday night, I had the chance to listen to the entire album. This sweet, lonesome woman needs to keep doing what she’s doing. Track 2 and 4 (”The Healer” and “My People”) both sweat of the late J-Dilla’s groove, and the third in the middle, “Me” is just the right mix of Roy Hargrove and bar grooves.
“Scientists, come out with your scales up!/ Get baptized in this ocean … Hip Hip is bigger than religion, Hip Hop is bigger than money, Hip Hop is bigger than the government/ This one is for Dilla - hip hop!”
Hercules and Love Affair - Athene
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Well, as is the regular jam around this joint, Pitchfork has once again introduced to another artist that previously made little noise on our radar. To those about to dance, I introduce to you Hercules and Love Affair.
Medeski Martin and Wood release Children’s Album
Friday, March 14th, 2008
It’s only fitting that I post this while I’m in DC visiting my sisters and their children. One of my favorite groups has released a new album. Medeski, Martin and Wood have usually relied on darker, more cynical themes for their avant-garde jazz recordings (see: “End Of The World Party (Just In Case)”), but this album turns that frown upside down.
“Let’s Go Everywhere” is a children’s album.
