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Fela Kuti's Long Road to Western Acceptance...
The Root: It’s been a long, slow dance between the United States and Fela Anikulapo Kuti, one that started 40 years ago when the Nigerian musician first toured America and is finally picking up tempo today, with the Broadway show Fela! opening to raves this week and a movie biopic reportedly in the works. That the Afrobeat star and political firebrand is rea […]
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RIP Technics... Production Stopped on 1200s and 1210s?
inthemix: The DJing community and the greater dance music scene mourns the loss of a clubbing staple today. No, Steve Aoki hasn’t hung up his record bag, but rather news has emerged that iconic turntable manufacturers Technics will be stopping production on their universally loved Technics 1200s and Technics 1210s. In a statement re-posted on dance board Glo […]
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'If it doesn’t do what I say...it isn't truthfully worth listening to'... Malcolm McLaren Makes the Rounds...
Clash Music: The aspiring rock star’s indispensable guide to surviving a life in music, with advice from those who know best. This issue, the punk impresario, anarchic mastermind and former Sex Pistols manager imparts his lifelong learned lessons… [...] Direct with purpose. “I’ve never been ultimately that interested in pop culture for pop cultur […]
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David Brooks' Education: Elementary School, High School, College, Springsteen...
The New York Times: …over the next few decades Springsteen would become one of the professors in my second education. In album after album he assigned a new course in my emotional curriculum. This second education doesn’t work the way the scholastic education works. In a normal schoolroom, information walks through the front door and announces itself b […]
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Top 10 Metal Box Sets 2009...
Floor – Below & Beyond $249.99 We have entered the land of the absurd. Robotic Empire’s box set for Floor includes 10 12“s (each with a different color of vinyl), a 7”, eight CD’s, and a 32-page booklet in a cloth-bound box. (The box set is pictured up top.) Pre-orders will also get a limited-edition t-shirt. 275 copies will […]
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David Byrne Loses Turkey-Shaped Jell-O Mold Competition...
Danielle Spencer: Baby’s First Turkey by David Byrne *The winner: Turkeyburger by David Hunter* A deft co-mingling of American culinary icons—the thanksgiving turkey and the classic hamburger—and a stellar technical breakthrough on the baking front. Grand Prize Winner [by popular election] for “Best Overall Turkey” trophy. Read and comment. […]
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Lemmy On Hawkwind, Sam Gopal, Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and the Music Industry...
Can you give the industry a grade, like an F to an A+, in terms of the way people have handled Motörhead? Oh, it’s an F. It’s the same with any other band that’s a bit different. The industry has always been fucking surprised by the next breakout band. Like when the Liverpool bands went up—the Mersey Sound was a big craze right, and there was a small scene a […]
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Generation Bass Finds The Coolest Bands In Brazil...
TURBOTRIO To me, my favorite brazilian funky/miami bass sound band!! The producer Tejo Damasceno approached MC BNegao and the producer Alexandre Basa to create Turbo Trio, a combo that has come out to thicken the sound hot pot of fast BPMs. And like the speed of its beats, its building up an unusual expectation at festivals and specialized recording labels i […]
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Ex-Wolfmother Guys Join Kid Koala's Band... Listen To A Track...
Boom Boom Chik: Turtablist/DJ Kid Koala has a new project on the horizon that was actually spawned from the ashes of a failed film soundtrack. The story goes something like this… A few years back Eric San (aka Kid Koala) and Dylan J. Frombach (aka Dynomite D) were asked to soundtrack a documentary film that was in production. The duo worked for a long time o […]
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Simon Reynolds Piles On: Hip-Hop Must Die...
The “Death of …” piece is a genre of criticism that’s fallen into disrepute (there was a period when you’d be constantly tripping over essays announcing the End of something: art, theory, rock, rave ). People now seem to feel that “no genre ever really dies” (to adapt the Neptunes/NERD motto). Was this in fact one of the p […]
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Fela Kuti's Long Road to Western Acceptance...
