You know the basics: "Whole Lotta Love," "When the Levee Breaks," that sort of thing. You may own a few albums, IV, perhaps, or inherited your brother's water-stained copy of Physical Graffiti.
But where to go from there?
Here's the funny thing about Zeppelin: Famously positioning themselves as an album - as opposed to a singles - band, their catalog is almost shockingly consistent. The hits are the hits, but everything else is usually, in some way,… more »
There's really no debating that 2007 will be remembered, first and foremost, as the year Radiohead gleefully suicide-bombed those last stubborn fragments of the old music industry and swept the smoldering remnants into the new millennium. That story has already been told several thousand times over, though, so let's instead turn our attention to its polar opposite: Daptone Records, a tiny time-capsule studio and label in Brooklyn which channels the decades-gone glory days of R&B… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
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05.26.12
"I'm gonna say this and then I'm gonna end mine." BEYONCE is the best performer in the world. Period.
05.10.12
From what I hear everyone has to throw up the ROC at the airport anyway. http://t.co/lfTPPoe4
03.09.12
"I'm poppin Magnums while Jigga bag somethun" -Frank
01.15.12
Best week ever.
11.09.11
"I got nothing but love for you"
10.03.11
Waaasup wassup wasup MF where my paperback?
09.11.11
Sept 11
08.12.11
201 Mulberry Street, NYC
08.03.11
"Partnering with @4real4rell on BBC" follow him.. (Not "buying" as GQ erroneously reported.)
08.03.11
"Black people unite and let's all get down" - ED OG
