Thursday, January 22, 2004
Will Stat Quo be the next superstar from Shady/Aftermath?
Image courtesy: Stephen Jaffe / AFP-Getty Images & MSNBC/Newsweek
Contrary to the rosy outlook presented by George W. Bush during his State of the Union address on Tuesday, there's a "A Serious Jobs Crisis." (Newsweek)
Related reading/listening: NOFX's take on our Commader-in-Chief
Similar to the Political Compass mentioned a while back: the 2004 American Presidential Candidate Selector (via SelectSmart.com)
Forget all the various Black Album remix albums flooding the market currently, it's all about the Howard Dean Iowa speech remixes now as all the bottom-trawlers googling "Howard Dean Goes Nuts" well know. Best of the bunch: Howard Dean w/ Lil Jon "Dean Throws it up for America."
Related viewing: Dean attempts to set the record straight by sitting, with his wife, for an interview with Diane Sawyer tonight on ABC.
CBS f-cking up again?: CBS Cuts MoveOn, Allows White House Ads During Super Bowl. (MediaChannel.org)
Related reading: Turn the Screws on CBS by signing up here to boycott the network on Superbowl Day.
Get well soon, to the G.O.D. MC (MTV News)
Stat Quo: the next superstar out of the Shady/Aftermath camp? (HITS Daily Double)
Related listening (courtesy Hiphopgame.com):
Dr. Dre introduces Stat Quo "Freestyle"
Stat Quo "The Future"
Stat Quo "Problems"
Eric at Stinkzone bucks the trend of Dizzee Rascal mania overtaking the US music press currently and is not impressed by the UK's finest.
Rumors and more rumors via hiphopsite.com:
It's a wrap for Outkast as a group for real but they just ain't confirming it until y'all stop buying the album and putting it back up to the top of the charts. (Billboard)
The Diplomats exit the Roc for Koch Records. Like, who really cares?
But Mos Def & Talib Kweli are signing to the Roc? Not that crazy a notion when you consider that Kanye West is currently carrying the label on his back while Hov is in "retirement."
And Nas is droppping three joints this year? I'll believe it when I see it plus Nas is someone who seems to fare a lot better when he exerts some severe quality control over his commerical output.
Knoc'turnal says it's a wrap for Westside Connection on Hot 97 this morning due to beef betwen Mack 10 and Ice Cube over Cube's desire to begin focusing on the N.W.A. reunion project and reviving Da Lench Mob.
Inside sources tell me that the first single from the upcoming N*E*R*D project is a hooklesss non-hit. As a major fan of In Search Of... though, I'll reserve judgement until I hear it for myself. (UPDATE: this track, "She Wants to Move," is available at the N*E*R*D website and is hot for those into the space-age funk-soul the Neptunes have been doing for Justin Timberlake or on tracks like "Frontin'." I might be on drugs but its got a bit of an Adam and the Ants vibe to my ears.)
I was also a fan of Groove Theory and the Infinite Possibilities album, but is Amel Larrieux's new Bravebird album any good?
More mp3 heat:
The Game feat. Lil Flip and Young Zee "Stunt 187" (the "Stunt 101" remix courtesy Hiphopgame.com)
Grafh "I Don't Care": look out for this cos it's a sleeper club banger from the "NFL Street" video game album soundtrack. (courtesy: sony music)
Courtney Love "Mono": I know she's a f-cking idiot 95+% of the time but I can't front, when she gets focused, Courtney Love can make some good-ass music. Not sure how the rest of the world feels about it, but "Mono" is a helluva single to me plus it's apparently co-produced or written by ex-4 Non-Blondes member and Pink & Christina Aguilera collaborator Linda Perry if you can believe it (courtesy: Virgin Records).
Hank Stuever mourns the end of the analog era (what, like there's not still vinyl being sold?) with the death of the audio cassette in "Unspooled." (Washington Post)
And speaking of the black gold, for all you vinyl junkies out there:
Jonny Sender is trimming down his vinyl collection this Saturday and Sunday and is will be selling at least 10-15 crates of wax (12”s, LP’s, 7”s) including Hip Hop - House - R&B LPs - Reggae 7"s - Disco Classics, promos - And other weird esoterica.
Records are priced to move.... The vast majority for $1 to $5
Time:
SATURDAY: 2 till 6 PM
SUNDAY: 3 till 6 PM
Location: 536 State Street (between Flatbush and 3rd Avenue) in Brooklyn.
(Directions: this is 1/2 a block from the Atlantic Ave. Subway stop about half way down the block from Radioshack that’s on Flatbush across from the Williamsburg Savings bank clocktower Building, which is now HSBC)
RSVP to Jonny by email and call 718.246.4091 for more details.
