I’m kicking off this year’s edition of “Coachella: GET PSYCHED” with an audio rebuttal to DJ / producer Diplo — who you may know as the beats / music guy behind early work from artists like MIA and Santigold. According to Pitchfork, upon seeing this year’s lineup, Diplo remarked via Twitter, “maybe im just throwing [...]
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Each and every year, my wife and I and a big group of close friends shove our adulthood into a closet, pack up our cars, and head out to Indio, Calif. for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival — Coachella, for short — the biggest and best respected music festival in North America. [...]
This Is My Jam: Public Enemy’s “By The Time I Get To Arizona”
Posted: January 18, 2012 by Sean Flinn in Editorial, MusicTags: hip-hop, public enemy
With the United States celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday this week (his birthday is January 15; we mark the occasion with a holiday and a national “day of service“), I thought I’d “jam” to a song that marked the occasion — and chose Public Enemy’s incendiary 1991 bombtrack “By The Time I Get To Arizona.” [...]
Jason Bentley — local LA radio station KCRW‘s music director and the DJ on the station’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show — has been on a bit of a Lush kick lately. He’s played tracks from the long defunct British indie pop / shoegazer band on a few of his recent shows … odd to me [...]
As I said in my “Favorite Songs of 2011” post, I bought and loved more music in 2011 than I have in just about any other year — if my Amazon bill and my annual iTunes “Best of …” smart playlist are any indicators. A lot of other crap could’ve influenced those two metrics. But [...]
