I am a sucker for a certain era of rap. It's mostly early nineties into the mid-nineties. The rappers back then decided that because they're music was based on ...
What to do when your lead singer kills himself? Hire the best known hipster producer in the whole wide world, Danger Mouse, bring on a bunch of cool cat lead si...
Gotta say, I'm pretty disappointed with this album. I generally like The Shins, and appreciate Danger Mouse's production, but he does this thing where he strips...
The content, along with the cartoon of a black caricature being hanged on the cover (see left) got KMD dropped by their label prior to this album's release. Thu...
I can remember when I first got this album on tape way back in the day. I sat in the Carl's Jr. parking lot next to Rip City Skateboards, listening to my car st...
Gnarls Barkley is one of those side projects that on first listen sounds new and fresh and groundbreaking and different (but at the same time familiar) and all ...
I'm not much for instrumental albums or albums filled with guest spots. So imagine my disappointment when the second Vik Vaughn album turned out to be not much ...
I remember sitting in the parking lot of the Carl’s Jr. in Santa Monica in 1991 listening to K.M.D.’s Mr. Hood and thinking that these guys had something specia...
More stripped down than his straight-ahead MF Doom stuff, and a little more dark, Viktor Vaughn is a great alter-ego in and of itself. He's a little more aggres...
Love him or hate him, MF Doom is the choice of all white guy hipsters when it comes to hip-hop. Who else can mix up cartoons, stoner humor, Godzilla movies and ...
