Guru Tribute mix
Legendary rapper Guru died today, ending a short and private battle with cancer. Beyond the cultural significance of a hip hop artist dying of something other than a gunshot wound, the rap world lost...
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If you’ve ever had the pleasure of spending time with a Canadian you’ll know that we’re sorry. Not for anything in particular, just generally. If you bump into one of us on the street, we’ll be the...
View ArticleThirty Minutes With the Womacks
In choosing a song for a long overdue Womack & Womack posting, I found myself paralyzed by the myriad of options within a back catalog diluted by filler but punctuated with a handful of genuine...
View ArticleIn Appreciation of Fever Ray and The Knife
I?d normally add some sort of bio in this space, but I have no intention of improving upon how little I know about Karin Dreijer, lest some unforgiving truth shatter the fantasy I have where she...
View ArticleLife Is Not a Rehearsal – A Verve Retrospective
The world seems to shift once my main man Max introduced me to The Verve. All of a sudden we were like Kerouac and Cassidy high on benzedrine in some beat nightclub, standing on wobbly tables and...
View ArticleGil Scott-Heron 1949-2011
Poet, songwriter, and activist Gill Scott-Heron died yesterday at the age of 62. Having recently broken retirement with a solo album, his body of work spans four decades, a career bookended by the...
View ArticleSongs About Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
For those valiantly attempting to live life fast enough to outrun consequence, Sex, Drugs and Rock n? Roll have been as big a part of youth culture as Jesus, fear, and platitudes have been to American...
View ArticlePoison Arrow and the Captivating Underworld of Desire
It was almost exactly seven years ago when I inexplicably received a white label vinyl pressing of an unfinished electro song I would soon become obsessed with. There was no return address, just the...
View ArticleThe Electric Adolescence Guide to Halloween
I?m afraid of most things, but Halloween doesn?t scare me. Some women I know make witches seem like fairies. Some men around me make the undead seem deep; they live to make money yet their lives are...
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