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People do love their Russian Futurists, and with good reason. Matthew Hart is a clever dude, and he’s always down to get dressed up for the occasion. On his fourth album, the Ontario popsmith …
“… tunes his lo-fi to hi, stripping down the usual bedroom symphonics and cuing up the power synths.”
Read the entire review, which includes a New Jack Swing ref, at Spin.
Basketballhead wants to have you over for breakfast.
Tobacco wraps up a pretty effing stellar year with a rap tape, essentially. Three new songs, four oldish ones, all with rappers on ’em for the first time.
On “2 Thick Scoops,” Chicago’s Serengeti sounds as raw and hulking as the lurching track itself. “Unholy Demon” features an unknown named Icicle Frog who sounds like a B-boy Mooninite making with the freak-freak.
But there’s more! Over at The AV Club.
Prince's "Black Album" is rarer than most (Chris Martins)
Sony was gonna retire the Walkman. Then it wasn’t. But really, how much more time could that ol’ black rectangle have? Everyone knows the vintage ones are the coolest anyhow. But how about the tape? Well, weirdly enough, the little spooly guy has been making a comeback. Here’s a highly subjective, but totally awesome list: Ten Must-Have Cassette Classics, From ‘Da Da Da’ to Deathrock to ‘Do Me!’ (Bel Biv DeVoe, bitches.)
Chiddy Chiddy Bang bang.
November’s “Breaking Out” feature for Spin. A lovably cocksure pair of college dropouts from Philly, Mr. Chiddy and Xaphoon Jones. Find out what happens when selling weed brownies just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Blank Dogs' second album "Land & Fixed"
My 17th favorite album of 2010 (too much good music this year).
“An upbeat sound built from a bubbling bass line, handclaps, crisply rattling guitars, and sunny synth sequences.”
The rest of the review can be found over at Spin.
Play him off, Keyboard Cat! Another meme bites the dust.
Old, totes stoopid news, but it’s the Friday after Thanksgiving. Leftovers abound. Plus, that photo is too good to squander. Here it is in three acts:
WHOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My 14th favorite record of 2010.
“Approaching a new Matt & Kim album is like driving up to the gates of a Christian summer camp — the blithe, loving embrace that awaits is, to a nonbeliever, as creepy as it is alluring. But since 2009’s Grand …”
Go through the gates. Read the whole thing at Spin.
The Mt. Desolation boys do their country thang (Erik Voake)
Don’t like Keane. Not in the least. But I was pleasantly surprised to discover Mt. Desolation, an Americana project founded by two members of that overly British band. Still kinda adult contemp, but much, much better. They played the Hollywood Palladium “recently” — I’m late. Sue me.
Swag-swag swag swag. Swag swag? Mmm, swag swag swaaaaag.
Hot news requires fast action. Here’s the swag report on what’s up with Soulja Boy Tell’em, since dude went and dropped a new video on a Tuesday night (which, indeed, it still is as I type this). Read up via L.A Weekly.
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