Entries Tagged as ‘Music’

January 6, 2007

Archives: Song of 2006 - The Soul Machine gets some shine (finally)

Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Calloway, formerly Thomas Burton) spit probably the best hip-hop verse in the history of music.
A hint, it starts: “I don’t recall, ever graduatin’ at all - sometimes I think I’m just a disappointment to y’all….”
At least as far as the opinion sits over on the 6600 block of Clinton Avenue, those bars [...]

August 3, 2006

Archives: Philly Hold ‘em: Game Theory plays the house

-In the game of hip-hop, the rap industry just moved The Roots all-in-
Hip-hop is about platinum. Not wearing platinum, but making platinum records. And anyone involved with The Roots gets the small triangle next to their name on the Billboard charts.
Scott Storch went from playing the keys on “What [...]

March 30, 2006

Archives: Genres? We don’t need no stinkin genres!

A music genre is nonsense. Good music is good music. The only times genres really need to apply are either, “friend” or “more than a friend,” and I don’t see how that could be implemented. Thus, I digress.
So while Best Buy and Know Name Records (the only place to buy Crunk Juice in Minnesota [...]

March 20, 2006

Archives: The best cover song (that’s yet to be covered)

The Outfield - Your Love.
A harmless enough 80’s song right? Wrong. Wrong. (c) Charlie Murphy.
This song will get remade by the right pop-punk band and be the best selling song of the year. OR Chris Carrabba will do an acoustic version cover for Dashboard Confessional. Either way, it won’t even take much work. And it’s [...]