Archive for October, 2008
Murder by Death
Murder By Death is my latest discovery. Well, not really discovery, people have been telling me to check them out for years. But being the stubborn music elitist I am, I never listened to any of their records. But this week, I noticed that my rotation was pretty hip hop heavy. And that some […]
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Tags: americana, cello, in bocca al lupo, like the excorcist but with more breakdancing, murder by death, music, music recommendations, red of tooth and calw, until morale improves the beatings will continue, who will survive and what will be left of them
This is another Adult Swim/Cartoon Network release. I first heard about this album during an episode of The Boondocks. At first, it sounds like southern rap at its best; superchill, smooth beats and laid back rhymes. It’s much in the vein of Outkast’s classic, Southernplayalisticcadillacmuzik. But as you delve deeper into the album, Witchdoctor’s skill […]
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Tags: adult swim, boondocks, diary of an american witchdoctor, dungeon family, hip hop, music, music recommendations, southern hip hop, underground hip hop, witchdoctor
The Mouse and The Mask is the result of MF Doom, DJ Dangermouse and the Cartoon Network. I’ve been a big fan of DJ Dangermouse for a while now. His critically acclaimed Grey Album, is criminally overrated (Check out The White Album, by Kno of Cunninglynguists, for the best Jay-Z Black Album remix of […]
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Tags: aqua teen hunger force, cartoon network, dangerdoom, dj dangermouse, hip hop, mf doom, music, music recommendations, underground hip hop
I hadn’t listened to Petey Pablo’s debut album since college. But for some reason, I had the strange urge to hear Raise Up this week. As soon as I threw the album on, I remembered why this was THE riding record back in the day. We used to blast this out of the 87 Mustang […]
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Tags: hip hop, music, music recommendations, petey pablo, the diary of a sinner
Max Payne: John Moore
2001. Sam Lake writes an amazing story about a dark antihero named Max Payne. His family has been taken away. His sunny job as a police officer has turned into a dark, brooding vendetta of retribution. He must wade through junkies, mobsters, assassins, and the blood he spills from all of them. His best […]
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Tags: cinema, film, john moore, mark wahlberg, max payne, movie, olga kurylenko, review, sam lake, video game adaptation
sexy gypsy. 