This past weekend marked the 11th annual Brooklyn Book Festival (#BKBF) and while navigating through the sea of wonderful totes on every shoulder and maneuvering through the maze of small press, large publishing houses,… Continue reading
For those of you who know me, and HELLO out there for those of you who don’t, I am a huge (YUGE) Wilco fan. Last July when Wilco surprise-released Star Wars (LOL, still) it was… Continue reading
OK, here is what I know about Frank Ocean: he was a part of OFWGKTA (which I used to write about a lot because I listened to them a lot); he sort-of “came… Continue reading
It’s been three years since I’ve Live-Blogged here. The last one was Chance The Rapper’s #10Day. CTR has since taken off to new heights we all could’ve probably predicted, probably because he is… Continue reading
I remember the day I fell in love. It was a day I had to walk into the deep North East of DC after work, for reasons I can no longer remember. It… Continue reading
Yesterday, when I live-blogged Stankonia, I got a lot of feedback. Most of it was, “I can’t believe you’ve never heard this record before!” And the like. I put an internet meme (that WordPress,… Continue reading
I’ve been thinking a lot about Outkast lately, probably because they’re mentioned in ?uestlove’s “Mo’ Meta Blues” a lot. As we warm up for the latest installment of my live-blog for Stankonia, I’m testing… Continue reading
Earlier today I listened to Prince for the first time ever. (Well, you know what I mean.) I should’ve, you think?, listened to Purple Rain as my first Prince album, but that’s not what happened. After Prince I felt… Continue reading
The last time I did this, I was writing about Bruce Springsteen. I sat down to write about Born To Run because I’ve always hated The Boss. And who are we if we are not… Continue reading
So here we are. I’m going to listen to Bruce Springsteen. Having since been called a martyr because I’m exploiting my musical identity to do something I hate, to write about it, I feel… Continue reading
