Friday, April 08, 2005
Mesmerized by the First Lady
Faith's The First Lady: a must cop? (Click cover to buy)
Last night's Good Foot was bananas. Props to Wes and Alma for holding down the logistics and to Jay Smooth & crew for bringing the party people out and for making me realize how inadequate I am as a DJ. The blog mafia was also out in force. I was happy to meet Hashim and Joey (peep his post of
I also ran through Vice's Bloc Party after-party event real quick afterwards and caught the end of Bean's live set. His left-field nerd rap isn't really my thing but he did one track featuring production by Dabrye that was kind of crack. That whole "future soul" sound being developed in Detroit by Jay Dilla, Sa-ra, Amp Fiddler, Dabrye and Platinum Pied Pipers is that next sh-t. It's one of the few things happening in music right now that is progressive but still soulful and funky. BTW: Bloc Party's Silent Alarm album is SICK! Believe.the.hype. I'll try to get into it in more detail in a post this weekend.
Faith Evans "Mesmerized" - HOLY SMOKES! Faith rockin' over Diamond D's "Freestyle (Yo, That's That Sh--)" (or at least the same break he sampled for that track). This joint is redonkolous, it's like the missing link between
50 > Beatles, WTF?!! I'm not gonna front, I STILL ain't heard the whole album but the fact that this could happen with such a mediocre album pretty much says it all about the state of the music industry right now.
"Kelis on blast"
And more Neptunes-related music: Clipse featuring Pharrell - "Stuntin' Y'all" (via Spine Mag)
The 20th anniversary of “South Bronx” - how did I miss this? Derek, you should have holla'd.
Fly cover art for the forthcoming Geology Plays Geology anthology album by this underrated producer on Studio Records.
Jalylah Burrell - She Real Cool
Sploid - the next step in Nick Denton's plan to take over the world using blogs.
Smoosh - cool tween indie pop or the next Hanson? And is that just a wack website or part of a deliberate lo-fi, indie aesthetic they're cultivating?
"In My Humble Opinion" - "Jennifer Lopez's ass isn't really all that" is so on point but I don't know about "DJ Premier is a better producer than Dr. Dre" and I'm a Premo fan.
I missed it Wednesday night but I'ma try and catch this kid Sway Dasafo who's doing it one more time at Bangers and Mash TONIGHT. (thanks, Fiona)
Also tonight: the "Follow the Leader Part 2" exhibit showcasing new works by painter Jackson Brown will kick off with a "closing reception" at the Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery (located in Chelsea at 516 W. 25th Street) between 6 and 9pm. Click here for more details (thanks, Jude for the heads up).
And don't forget tomorrow afternoon for those in the T-Dot: the 2005 Adidas All Canadian Basketball Game.
Finally, she was just on Power 105 this morning so check out video vixen Esther Baxter's new website.
(* GONE! "The Man" threatened Joey in a not-very-cool way into taking down the links. Good luck containing this, UMG. The music is out there now. Your best bet is to move up the Be album's release date by as much as you can -- may I suggest early May? -- and take advantage of the buzz that's building fast. Jimmy and Steve have done this before so it shouldn't be a problem.)
