A few years back, The Black Keys surprised everyone by teaming up with Damon Dash and producing a hip-hop album consisting of instrumentals by The Keys and verses by everyone from RZA and Mos Def to a posthumous ODB-Ludacris collaboration.
Lo-Fi darling Ariel Pink has come to the surface to debut a new track with mentor and influence R. Stevie Moore (who has over 400 self-released albums to his credit).
The track is a collaboration between White, Insane Clown Posse, and JEFF The Brotherhood working off of a Mozart melody. Mozart, also known for being kind-of a fetishist…
The prolific Damon Albarn has announced a new project called DRC Music; set to release their first album this October.
A few months back The Beach Boys announced plans to release a massive box-set of ALL of the elusive SMiLE sessions, thought to have been hidden away and relegated to bootlegs and old-man Brian Wilson’s 2004 re-recorded version.
Picking up slightly as we ease into a new school year, August 29th sees the return of several familiar faces including Weezy F. Baby, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Counting Crows, and Mike Doughty.
The bottom line is: It’s A hurricane, it’s going to hit us, but we’ll make it out alive. So be smart this weekend and don’t go out. Show Irene you’re not a dummy and be safe, not stupid.
Honestly, the performance was OK and, the be fair, GZA was the one who kind-of didn’t put as much heart into it as you’d think. But I could be wrong. What do you think?
In the mid-Aughts, the, decidedly more mellow, band Dirty Projectors chose to do an album where they reinterpreted Damaged in it’s entirety from memory. The result was interesting and pretty warmly received by the music press at the time, with it’s lush production and complete 180 turn in style.
You know that feeling where completely irrational partisanship takes over and you almost don’t even give a remake or, in this case, a collection of cover songs, a chance? This is an album that almost falls into that category.
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