Taking on music one pimp-slap at a time.
Last week, our faithful music columnist Bao Le-Huu journeyed to the mystical lands of Texas for a few days of sleepless rocking at South by Southwest Music Festival. He brought back some morsels (J. Mascis!) but more importantly, some great new music that everyone and their mama should hear right now. BEATdown is way...
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This week it’s courtesy Jay-Z as a guest star. True story: My closet is, like, two stories. Straight to the happy ending cause I don’t do stories. – “Maybach Music,” from the new Rick Ross album Trilla.
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This month, XXL magazine features an interview with rapper DMX that is sure to go down as one of the craziest non-starters ever put to print. One can almost hear DMX’s cracked-out growl popping off mono-syllabic responses to questions he never really heard in the first place as he fiddles with the controls of...
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Seriously, see these guys this weekend. I’m not taking that lightly. Great show this Sunday at Back Booth (full info) with 2 bands from Deland that kick fucking ass: Mirror Pal and Introduction to Sunshine. Both have EPs coming out this weekend. Want proof of ass-kickiness? Done. Off Mirror Pal’s new acoustic EP Explore...
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No pressure, guys, but your SXSW ticket was the hottest of the week, apparently. Entertainment Weekly reports that Brad and Angie were told they could get into Wednesday night’s Summerbirds/REM show at Stubb’s in Austin but their entourage couldn’t. The star couple declined the show altogether. And I promise that’s the last time Brangelina...
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According to Orlando rapper Nephewblaq: 1. Heavy ‘dro2. bad ho3. elbows4. I-Fo5. my nigga Lil’ O6. car show7. Girbaud8. Cleo9. Puerto Rico Thanks for clearing that up, Blaq. Catch him live March 22 at UCF Club Knight Lights.
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Ashley Alexandra Dupré“What We Want”Now that Eliot Spitzer’s gone with his tail between his legs, we can officially start examining the more personal aspects of this Emperor’s Club VIP scandal. Particularly, who’s that girl?Yesterday, the New York Times spoke with Spitzer’s personal fave Ashley Youmans, or Ashley Alexandra Dupre (her musical name), or Kristen...
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Sometimes our crack writers will hand something in that we just can’t fit anywhere in particular. These pieces are usually great, always heartbreaking to cut and, I’m convinced, will one day kill me in my sleep. Raymond Cummings fell victim to a cut a couple months back when he reviewed the Jan. 15 release...
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Just got a call from the ever classy Anna over at National Public Radio and she says they’re all camped out and ready to live webcast the Summerbirds in the Cellar show at SXSW TONIGHT! The ‘Birds go on at 10 p.m. Wednesday night (again, that’s tonight) followed by Central Florida’s Papercranes, then Dead...
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So Yahoo!’s got this music blog thingie (pshyah, don’t we all) except that it’s all corporate-fied and they, you know, pay their contributors. It’s a collection of various music interests and personalities (they recently made a splash when ’90s has-been Jill Sobule used her Yahoo blog to raise money to make an album) and...
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