Little Dragon Tours the US

My favorite new band of 2007, Little Dragon, is on a short US jaunt. I want to commend them to my East and West Coast readers (all three of you). If you go, take pictures, get me a t-shirt (dates emboldened for friends)
20 Nov: Beauty Bar – San Diego, California
21 Nov: The Roxy – Los [...]

2007 Best Music in the World According to Dork

The full urban list is here at Tune In Music City.
The non-urban add ons:
Radiohead — In Rainbows : good record and also possible free!
Imani Coppola: The Black and White Album :This dropped first early on on 07, and was re-released in November. Coppola is a great singer/songwriter and the album has some great pop/punk/funk/rap. “Woke [...]

Another late night mix from DJ Gandalf Mantooth

Not real excited about this mix. I’m really using it to test a server I may be moving to. I’ll get the track listings up later (as well as a rapidshare link) barring a complete redo. Listen by clicking the button. 

also, in this mix I’ve made a mash-up, Utada Hikaru Vs Silent Poets. Here’s a [...]

download it

For post election blues or late night meanderings or your favorite personal encounters, dig the late night music mix. (big file, but 70 minutes of music) http://rapidshare.com/files/2367693/latenight2.mp3
tracklisting.txt
TITLE “Late Night Mix”
PERFORMER “DJ Gandalf Mantooth”
TRACK 01 Presenting . . . the Late Night Mix
“DJ Gandalf Mantooth”
TRACK 02 Sleepless Child
Bonnie Pink
TRACK 03 Fat Girl
Count Bass D
TRACK [...]

review: Nightmares on Wax – In a Space Outta Sound

Nightmares on Wax – In a Space Outta Sound (Warp Records)
It’s been awhile since I listened to anything from DJ Ease. I really caught on to NOW late, around 2000, when they were already established as part of the “trip-hop” sound coming out of Northern England. I dug a few singles here and there, yet [...]

review: Roots Manuva – Alternately Deep

Roger Smith aka Roots Manuva has one of the most distinctive flows in hip-hop. Though being a West Indie Brit has something to do with it, he does have a staccato rapid fire vowel swallowing chant that makes him stand out among his MC peers. He often flows over minimalist beats, that if perhaps not [...]

Not quite top ten enough

This year I made up a little top ten urban/electronica music list for the Nashville Scene. The introductory paragraph written by the editors pretty much sums up my feelings about such lists. It was harder than I thought, though, especially coalescing into a few words how I felt about the #1 pick, Edan’s The Beauty [...]