Jan
6
2011
Top 200 Tracks of 2010 – 50-21
50. LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
48. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
43. Josh Ritter – Folk Bloodbath
42. Diamond Rings – Show Me Your Stuff
Jan
5
2011
Top 200 Tracks of 2010 – 100-51
Jan
1
2011
Quarterly Review – October-December 2010
Once every three months I list the best of what I heard in albums/songs/remixes for the quarter. I do this to personally keep up with all the awesome music I hear, as it ultimately helps me at the end of the year when I do my overall listing for the previous twelve months. I also do it to introduce you cool cats to tunes you may have missed independently.
Nov
17
2010
Paragraph Reviews 11/17/10
Music, Movies, Television, etc. Pop culture reviews for the short-attention-span Internet age.
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
Call it a case of the hype machine, but upon several initial listens, it would seem Nicki gave away her best verses to other people’s songs. Certainly we are asking too much if we expected the album to be more “Roman’s Revenge” and less “Your Love” – and that is something (albeit a disappointing fact) that I’m willing to overlook. The production is slick, the melodies are catchy, and Minaj has a great singing voice. So what if the finished product is a little too soft R&B and less manic schizo rapping? Nicki has many faces; the first impression was obviously just one of many styles. But the rhymes on this album do not live up to Minaj’s past work on tracks by Diddy, Trey Songz, Kanye, etc. The cadence is samey, the words are lazily repetitive, the dead air is filled by stuttering, and the unwritten law of rap is violated many times (the one that says you can’t rhyme a word with the same word….it’s the same word). Pink Friday will be a moderate success, but it’s not strong enough of a debut to give Nicki the promotion from “featured” to “standalone” artist.
Rating: 6
Two more after the jump…
Oct
25
2010
Five MP3s You Must Grab 10/25/10
Oct
2
2010
Quarterly Review: July-September 2010
Once every three months I list the best of what I heard in albums/songs/remixes for the quarter. I do this to personally keep up with all the awesome music I hear, as it ultimately helps me at the end of the year when I do my overall listing for the previous twelve months. I also do it to introduce you cool cats to tunes you may have missed independently.
Sep
22
2010
The Songs of Summer 2010
Today marks the official first day of autumn 2010. As far as music goes, there is usually one “song of the summer” – a track that we will forever associate with the previous season of this particular year. This song usually embodies the typical moods related to summer – laziness, partying, a carefree, optimistic attitude, et al.
While I’m not going to try and pick this song, I have my nominations – songs that will bring me back to this summer, my first few months in a new city, and, as with most summers, a good time in near-intolerable heat.
Sep
13
2010
Five MP3s You Must Grab 9/13/10
Sep
8
2010
Catching Up With the Kids 9/8/10
Occasionally I browse the pop music world/charts/blogs and see what the kids are listening to. Sometimes I am pleased with what I find, most of the time I am not. This is a journal of my discoveries.
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Jul
27
2010
Five MP3s You Must Grab 7/27/10
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