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 [...]
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Category Archives: Music
Hip-Hop 93-94: Wu Tang
October 22, 2009 – 7:13 pm
Hip-Hop 93-94: A Tribe Called Quest
October 20, 2009 – 3:57 pm
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 [...]
Dr. Dog = Everything Right About Music
August 28, 2009 – 4:30 pm
Watch the full concert
If you haven’t already checked these guys out, like for instance at their amazing 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
August 26, 2009 – 11:55 am
My band Case Quarter was in the studio this weekend. I managed to shoot some video. You’re welcome.
The Antlers – Hospice
August 10, 2009 – 11:13 pm
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 [...]