Luscious Jackson – Are You Ready? (self-released, 2013) Luscious Jackson were one of the great genre-bending pop groups of the 90s, turning out folk-inflected trip-hop, harmonic disco torch songs, slither-funk party raps, and whatever else they felt like. They were…
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Single Reviews: Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz/André 3000/James Murphy, Noel Gallagher and Amorphous Androgynous, Evitan, Mark Stewart vs. Primal Scream, Future Of The Left
Arctic Monkeys- R U Mine? This track just showed up out of nowhere last week, a stand-alone single that appeared on YouTube and iTunes and instantly lodged itself in my head on an endless loop. It’s full of the group’s…
Harry Belafonte: “Gloria”
In 1961, Harry Belafonte returned his attentions to the strain of music that had made him a household name. Jump Up Calypso was Belafonte’s third album of West-Indies-styled tunes (following 1956’s Calypso and 1957’s Belafonte Sings Of The Carribean), and…
One Song Wonders: 90 M.P.H.- “Mackframalama”
I had never heard this song until a few months ago, and now it’s something that gets stuck in my head and I spin in a large percentage of my DJ sets. Much like the Freshco and Miz record I…
Single Review: The Strokes- “Under Cover Of Darkness”
It’s a new Strokes single. And it clearly attempts to play the audience, coming on a little too strong, full of the impulses of old pals trying to pack all the everything in all at once and remind you why…
Stuck In My Head: “The Cannibal Song”
Man, kids’ entertainment used to be so much… Edgier. Creepier. Just plain weirder. I’m currently obsessing over “The Cannibal Song”, a insanely catchy little ditty from Walt Disney’s Addition And Subtraction. This was an educational record from 1963, and the…