Grammy Thoughts (Besides “Yawn.”)

Were there any surprises among any of the winners? I don’t recall a single one. I suppose some will think Adele beating the Jonas Brothers was a surprise . . .
Interesting thing about Adele’s win for best new artist; the talented young singer who should have been accepting that award had just finished singing with [...]

Whose House? Our House!

Found at Dub Dot Dash

Ludacris Pumps Up Obama, Obama smacks down

Yesterday I heard a “leak” of Ludacris’ new song “Politics (Obama is here).” The song is of middling lyrical wit but ecstatic in its support of Sen. Obama’s Presidential campaign. It also contained some very strong language that is sure to get conservatives and the Tennessee Guerrilla Women  frothing at the mouth.  See the video  [...]

Don’t Hurt Em Burt and Ernie

Surely by the time the AM rolls around, everyone will have seen Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street getting down with MOP’s “Ante Up.” I just want to be in on the hits. Now, there have been many Sesame Street-rap mash-ups blazing across your Youtubes and your Googlevideojoints. Few (any?) have been this well done. [...]

Next Big Thing: Masia One

I’m sure none of you remember when I used to complain about the doofuses trying to make Tigarah into a star (based solely on the faulty idea that she was the next M.I.A., as if that’s a good thing) while there were all these other female MCs, Japanese or otherwise, who could blow her off [...]

Why Atmosphere is like Tha Blue Herb

They are both from cold climates (Minneapolis and Hokkaido)

Super Tuesday and music

pimping my Tuneinmusiccity.com blog. Here’s a post about the involvment of music celebrities in electoral politics this season.

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 [...]

record reviews and such

Abbreviated versions of a couple of my reviews including the new Lupe Fiasco are in print today, however somewhere in the labyrinth that is the tuneinmusiccity.com  blog and the Tennessean Web site you’ll find the full versions.
working on a year end best list, coming soon. I’ll post the all-genres list here and the urban list [...]

Lupe’s Paris Tokyo

In case you were wondering, Lupe says in the lyrics “O tsukare sama deshita” which means (kinda) thanks for the really hard work you’ve done for us. Good if someone’s done you a solid.
He’s also kind of an otaku, being all into the manga. But, most otaku are not so into fashion, and Lupe name [...]