Quit Mumbling

You know that annoying desert island question you’re never prepared to answer, the one that always makes you look like an idiot because you can’t name one album you would take with you in a Castaway scenario? It doesn’t matter that you can’t answer not because you fail to think of a single album worthy [...]

While it’s all too easy to let these grey days of June Gloom guide you into a somber slump (complete with candles, red wine, and multiple spins of the new Bon Iver record), its Monday damnit, and you’ve got things to do! Whether its the dreaded wonderful return to the working week or just another free day [...]

Any friend of mine enjoys dipping his toe in some R. Kelly from time to time, anytime. But I know, I know. How could you? He’s a monster! I’ll tell you. Have you heard “Happy People”? It should change your mind. Off 2004′s double album Happy People/U Saved Me, It’s the kind of song you [...]

The Cure inadvertently helped create the post-millennial model for emo, but there was always a playfulness beneath all the nihilism (sometimes buried deeper than others), creating this sort of giddy misery. A deliberate departure from the gloomy sound they became known for, leave it to Robert Smith to pen a pop song about a lovers’ [...]

East Africa doesn’t get enough love. As a connoisseur of music coming out of Africa from the 70′s, sometimes I tend to get caught up on the western, Francophone countries – Nigeria, Benin & Togo – and tend to neglect the rest. Mulatu Astake’s music – like a ringing bell – shows why that’s a [...]

I am going to be the first person to admit that my knowledge of hip-hop is about as shallow as the kiddy pool you pissed in as a youngin’. I know I’m not supposed to say those things since I am currently writing about said-genre and attempting to get you to listen to some hip-hop [...]