Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Special Non-Hip Hop Edition
I'm kind of out of it as far as hip hop ish goes right but somehow it doesn't seem that important right now as compared to far more serious events that have been going down over the holiday season. Let me throw you some links to other stuff that's floated across my radar in the past few days though (The New York Times | Australian Broadcasting Corporation):
- Steve Nash - sports heads, is this dude legit nice or have I been constantly hearing about him since being back in the T-Dot because of the standard "Big-Up All Canadians" policy in effect up here and him being the best (only?) Canadian player in the NBA?
- Semi-related (?) - why Kobe will never get love from the streets like LeBron, Allen I etc. do. (The New York Times)
- DFA Radio - these guys aren't really as hot now as they were a couple years back, but this is still worth peepin'. The LCD Soundsystem album is coming soon too (if it's not already out?).
- Shoeshi.com
- El Dorado -Jamaican Guyanese Rum (aka "central heating" for the holiday season).
- "Fingers on the pulse of cool"?
- The New York Times on Rick James in their 2004 wrap-up issue. (The New York Times)
- John Legend in stores today - they're bangin' the frankly incredible, strictly piano 'n voice ballad "Ordinary People" on Flow 93.5 (the Hot 97 equivalent here in Toronto). If that and the first single "Used To Love U " are any indication of the quality of the Get Lifted album, it should be sick. (related: Bol disagrees)
- Most community newspapers distributed free in the 'hood are pretty cheesy but Rolling Out is the exception to that rule.
- Daft Punk Interstella 5555 action figures (this might be old?). New album due in 2005 too. I dissed Discovery when if first came out. Then it grew on me until I belatedly realized that their 80's electro-new wave pop steez on that album was not necessarily worse, just different, than their house masterpiece Homework and ahead of the music curve by at least a year. (NME.com)
- Finally: has Michael Moore become too successful to effectively do his job now? (E! Online)
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- Steve Nash - sports heads, is this dude legit nice or have I been constantly hearing about him since being back in the T-Dot because of the standard "Big-Up All Canadians" policy in effect up here and him being the best (only?) Canadian player in the NBA?
- Semi-related (?) - why Kobe will never get love from the streets like LeBron, Allen I etc. do. (The New York Times)
- What type of rocker are you? - once again I'm wondering when they're ever gonna do hip hop versions of these kind of quizzes?
- DFA Radio - these guys aren't really as hot now as they were a couple years back, but this is still worth peepin'. The LCD Soundsystem album is coming soon too (if it's not already out?).
- Shoeshi.com
- El Dorado -
- "Fingers on the pulse of cool"?
- The New York Times on Rick James in their 2004 wrap-up issue. (The New York Times)
- John Legend in stores today - they're bangin' the frankly incredible, strictly piano 'n voice ballad "Ordinary People" on Flow 93.5 (the Hot 97 equivalent here in Toronto). If that and the first single "Used To Love U " are any indication of the quality of the Get Lifted album, it should be sick. (related: Bol disagrees)
- Most community newspapers distributed free in the 'hood are pretty cheesy but Rolling Out is the exception to that rule.
- Daft Punk Interstella 5555 action figures (this might be old?). New album due in 2005 too. I dissed Discovery when if first came out. Then it grew on me until I belatedly realized that their 80's electro-new wave pop steez on that album was not necessarily worse, just different, than their house masterpiece Homework and ahead of the music curve by at least a year. (NME.com)
- Finally: has Michael Moore become too successful to effectively do his job now? (E! Online)
