Monday, October 20, 2003
New music from A Tribe Called Quest, CMJ music guide and has REM become a nostlagia act?
Wish hip hop sounded like it did in 1992 still? Besides Little Brother and some other lesser 90's hip hop revivalists, there's not much out there for you but the return of A Tribe Called Quest with a new single "I C U (Doin' It)," a duet with Erykah Badu from the new Violator compilation that hit mixshows last week, might give you hope. Also likely to be the first thing we'll hear from their much-rumored reunion album, it sounds very Slum Village in style but the production is vintage (latter-day) Tribe: rich deep bass and drums just like we all remember and love. The lyrics also sound contemporary and relevant without pandering (too much) to the thugged out, jiggy and dirty south hip hop sounds that dominate urban radio today. All around, it's got me excited enough to anticipate the album whenever it's due out.
The CMJ festival hits NYC again this week. Here's a cool preview guide courtesy of the Coolfer website.
It looks like the Democrats still need a high quality candidate to go up against Bush next year, maybe they need to pay heed to this webiste.
Just pulled from a file labelled "duh!" a "State Dept. Study Foresaw Trouble Now Plaguing Iraq" but it was ignored by the Pentagon, the Defense dept and Bush senior planners of the Iraq invasion leading to the problems we have now. But it looks like the Neo-cons have had a reality check as to what the situation in Iraq really is and that Bush might be finally coming to his senses and ending his unilateral stance WRT the UN's involvement over there. Once that's all been sorted out, maybe we can get a congressional hearing into why "Companies Get Few Days to Offer Bids on Iraq Work" as detailed in this article in the Times.
Click here to see a little clip of the new Tehcnics SL-DZ1200 CD turntable in action.
Next, I gotta give props to an old college friend Colson Whitehead on getting a feature in today's New York Times about his upcoming new book, an anthology of essays about New York City entitled "The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts."
Also, congrats to one of my neighborhood restaurants Grocery on being ranked the #7 best restaurant in New York in the new edition of Zagats. I've never been there and now, of course it'll probably be impossible to get a table.
Finally, has REM become a nostlagia act? Chris Suellentrop seems to think they might have in this article on the Slate website. Since I haven't given a sh!t about their new albums since I was in college like 12 years ago, I think he might be right about that.
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The CMJ festival hits NYC again this week. Here's a cool preview guide courtesy of the Coolfer website.
It looks like the Democrats still need a high quality candidate to go up against Bush next year, maybe they need to pay heed to this webiste.
Just pulled from a file labelled "duh!" a "State Dept. Study Foresaw Trouble Now Plaguing Iraq" but it was ignored by the Pentagon, the Defense dept and Bush senior planners of the Iraq invasion leading to the problems we have now. But it looks like the Neo-cons have had a reality check as to what the situation in Iraq really is and that Bush might be finally coming to his senses and ending his unilateral stance WRT the UN's involvement over there. Once that's all been sorted out, maybe we can get a congressional hearing into why "Companies Get Few Days to Offer Bids on Iraq Work" as detailed in this article in the Times.
Click here to see a little clip of the new Tehcnics SL-DZ1200 CD turntable in action.
Next, I gotta give props to an old college friend Colson Whitehead on getting a feature in today's New York Times about his upcoming new book, an anthology of essays about New York City entitled "The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts."
Also, congrats to one of my neighborhood restaurants Grocery on being ranked the #7 best restaurant in New York in the new edition of Zagats. I've never been there and now, of course it'll probably be impossible to get a table.
Finally, has REM become a nostlagia act? Chris Suellentrop seems to think they might have in this article on the Slate website. Since I haven't given a sh!t about their new albums since I was in college like 12 years ago, I think he might be right about that.
