Amanda Lee | October 30, 2009
I assume most of us are adults here. But none of us is ever too old for the chips, dips, chains, and whips that go along with tricks and treats of Halloween—the single night of the year when everyone decides at once to push their boundaries and be someone else for a change. So go [...]
Ben W. | October 30, 2009
This era of Dancehall — the glorious early 90s hip hop revolution in Jamaica — was not just for the rude boys.
Enter Dorothy Smith aka Patra.
Ben W. | October 29, 2009
Today’s 12:12 Tuner shares its title with a song by The Eagles. The similarities end there.
Ben W. | October 28, 2009
We’d be remiss if we hyped Dancehall music of the early 90s all week and didn’t include this one.
Ben W. | October 27, 2009
OK, so the Born Jamericans were not as hard and violent as many of their dancehall contemporaries. But please do not think it’s time to go comparing them to Snow or anything.
Ben W. | October 26, 2009
A new genre of music that turned up around 1991. Its base elements weren’t terribly original. But the ingredients combined to form something so fresh and new it dominated the airwaves for the better part of the next half-decade.
Grunge, right?
Wrong.
Dancehall.
Ben W. | October 26, 2009
“I’m Super like my man Cat, cuz I keep my styles jam-packed.” — Redman, “Green Island,” 1994.
Ben W. | October 26, 2009
The unfortunate thing about posting your every opinion online for the world (or 12 people a day) to read is that you look pretty foolish when those opinions changes. So here I am looking foolish.
The Arctic Monkeys’ Humbug is my favorite album of the year right now.
Yep, the same Humbug that gave us the “Crying [...]
Amanda Lee | October 23, 2009
When you study literary theory, you learn a lot about ambiguity and why it works. Where Silver Jews songwriter David Berman shines is in the artful composition of ambiguous phrases that either mean several things at once or mean nothing at all; as a result, the listener is left to infer a meaning, which may [...]
Ben W. | October 20, 2009
This isn’t your grandparents’ Ghostface Killah.
A borderline psychotic explosion of opinion.
