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Album Review: Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues

Helplessness Blues is the newest album from Fleet Foxes, released May 3rd, 2011 on the Sub Pop record label.  Helplessness Blues is the follow up to Fleet Foxes debut album, Fleet Foxes.

To get an idea of what Helplessness Blues is about, I think it’s important to understand it within the context of the critically acclaimed Fleet Foxes. Sophomore albums unfortunately carry the burden of being judged in light of their successful older brothers, and Helplessness Blues has big shoes to fill. Continue reading →

Flashback Friday: Baby Come Back!

You know them, you love them, more importantly, you’ve used them – they are the begging songs. The songs you dedicate to the loved one who just left you standing alone on the curb…in the rain…not even bothering to look back. The song you sing in the shower to the one you desire so, so, SO, so much and that you just know you would make happy. Or the worst, the one that you shouldn’t have let go (dummy) and now she’s off with another man. Continue reading →

Flashback Friday: Disco Inferno

Disco is practically the most reviled form of music among music snobs across the land. Disco was made for both your tripped-out naked twirling on the dance floor or for dancing with your baby in the kitchen. Artists have been sampling disco for decades and understandably so. Of course, we have all heard “I Will Survive” ninety billion times more than we thought we would but it was an epic break-up song for the ages, so thank you, Gloria Gaynor. Continue reading →

Why “I Miss You” by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes is the Greatest Song Ever

We’re going to try something that’s never been done before. This is like climbing the Mt. Everest of blogging. We’re risking extreme carpal tunnel syndrome, debilitating LOLspeak and possibly even breaking the internet.

I’m calling it a micromusiclivebloggasm and you are the first ones in history to witness it. Does that perk up your nipples or what?

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Flashback Friday: Stadium Anthems

There are some songs that can only best be heard with 70,000 of your closest friends singing along. The years of stadium concerts seem to have gone the wayside, with artists preferring to have the more intimate setting of a 20,000 person arena. Suckers. It takes a lot to keep the steaming swarms appeased.

Witness the way AC/DC whips the masses into a synchronized frenzy. Continue reading →

The Big K.R.I.T. Mixtape that Might Actually Be the Best Rap Album of the Year

A Caddy with gold wheels, doves, a brandy snifter positioned under the crotch of a stripper, a random bulldog. This album cover touches all the bases.

I love hip-hop mixtapes. I also am fully aware that the vast majority of such mixtapes (even many of those put out by the rap game’s heavy hitters) are absolute dog shit and should be immediately forgotten.

But once in a while a true gem comes along. Like last month when the Mississippi-based rapper Big K.R.I.T. turned out what might be one of the greatest rap mixtapes released in a long time. Continue reading →