Author Archives: Jory

Add “Tweet This Post” link to WordPress

Here’s a quick and dirty way to add a tweet this post link to your WordPress template. Just add this code to your site’s post template whever you want it displayed.
<?php
// Grab Title Text
$tweet = get_the_title($id);
// Change spaces into ‘+’
$tweet = str_replace (” “, “%20″, $tweet);
// Grab Permalink
$tweetURL = get_permalink();
// Print “Tweet this article” link [...]

Hip-Hop 93-94: Wu Tang

I’ve focused so far on the so-called “backpack” hip-hop, which is admittedy where my bread was buttered in 1993-94, but one group rose out of the Shoalin Slums in 1993 to show us that hip-hop with a bleaker, hard-edge can still carry innovative production and brilliant wordplay.
1993’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) came seemingly out [...]

Hip-Hop 93-94: A Tribe Called Quest

ba-ba-baaah..
ba-ba-baah…
You’re already dancing aren’t you? Ali Shaheed Muhammad should get the Nobel Prize for beatsmithery.
That Weldon Irvine sample that kicks off the first single from 1993’s “Midnight Mauraders” triggers a pavlovian head-nod in any fan of hip-hop. That the first voice we hear is Trugoy from De La Soul, is fitting on an album that [...]

Hip-Hop 93-94: Del tha Funkee Homosapein

Sticking to Oakland, and the Hieroglyphics crew for the today’s look at Hip-Hop 1993-1994, here’s “Wrong Place” off of Del the Funkee Homosapian’s 1993 album, “No Need for Alarm”. Built around a woozy, heavily phased guitar loop from the B.T. Express’ “What You Do In The Dark”, this track finds Del in his “stoney jester [...]

Hip-Hop 93-94: Souls of Mischief

I’ve been thinking about and listening to a lot of hip-hop that came out or was popular during 93-94. Maybe it’s because associate this music with mix tapes blasting out of the 1984 Mercury Marquis Station Wagon that was my first car, but I challenge anyone to come up with a better 24 months [...]

Dr. Dog = Everything Right About Music

Watch the full concert
If you haven’t already checked these guys out, like for instance at their amazingĀ free show at Prospect Park in Brooklyn this summer, watch this video. I think it does a great job of capturing the energy of their live show. Comparisons to The Band and The Beatles get thrown around a lot, [...]

The Story Behind the Music

My band Case Quarter was in the studio this weekend. I managed to shoot some video. You’re welcome.

The Antlers – Hospice

The Antlers’ Hospice is a beautiful, morbid meditation on loss, guilt, and responsibility. Antlers frontman Peter Silberman’s rich falsetto evokes Jeff Buckley at his most beautiful, yet never slides into ostentatious as Buckley’s could. The pacing of the album and frequent revisting of melodic motifs brings to mind Neutral Milk Hotel’s peerless In an Aeroplane [...]

Nix the Six!

While I would never wish to nixx Nikki Sixx, ie6 is a major pain in the ass for web developers everywhere. While we have all groused about it for years most of us have had to bow to the pressure to create secondary stylesheets and/or use the “underscore hack“, our only release valve being the [...]

Good Job Google Ad Network!

or: “Vibe is Dead, Long Live Vibe”
Dig the ad Google served me for while reading an announcement of the closing of Vibe Magazine in Google Reader.