Saturday, February 28, 2009
By – TimS The third full-length album from Minneapolis native P.O.S. falls into the same category as recent releases by El-P and Saul Williams, brilliantly unlistenable. Let me clarify that by stating how utterly amazing those two releases were by the aforementioned artists, both in production and lyrical content. But you don’t just ride around [...]
Monday, February 23, 2009
- Illustration by Dank Lucas Top 5 dead or alive… Who throws better parties then Sluggo?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
By – TimS As I sit here preparing to write a couple album reviews (not really reviews, just a couple short articles explaining why I like what I like in a charmingly obnoxious manner that infiltrates your brain matter, therefore causing you to deeply respect my opinion and adhere to it’s merits), I feel obligated [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
By – J.C. You die one day and you go on to live forever. At least in the hearts and minds of the people you’ve impacted in some form or another during the course of your existence. That dawned on me last night as I finished browsing the music selections at Park Ave. CDs in [...]
With the accompanying sounds of “I’m Bound to Pack It Up” by the White Stripes, take a bike ride with San Francisco’s Macaframa…(you’ll need to turn up the audio)
[What's been getting spins in your CD player or tape deck? Here's a look at what's been getting play in ours...] By – Dank Lucas The word “green” is closely related to the Old English verb growan meaning “to grow” – and that is exactly what Pacewon and Mr. Green do on their 2008 banger The Only Color That Matters [...]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
– By TimS Remember when that little Napster thing came along and ass-fucked the whole concept of the record business? I know Lars Ulrich does. Along with stuffing my (and essentially every other human beings) musical catalogue, what the peer-to-peer file sharing phenomenon eventually proved was that the people running the record business were as [...]
The Hip-Hop Edition - In a year in which a gremlin sold nearly three million albums (a million in one week!) and a number of highly anticipated releases never happened, there were still a few handfuls of extremely well executed music that was delivered. In my opinion, one of those albums was a classic and appears [...]
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tear down boundaries. That’s what the Tow Away Zone does every Wednesday morning from 10 am-12 noon in the basement of 91.5 FM (www.WPRKDJ.org) at the Rollins College campus in Winter Park, FL. As 2009 approaches and the one-year anniversary of the show nears, host J. Charles sheds light on the past 11 months… Why Call It Tow [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
Because his opinion is very important (even if only to himself), Joint Contrast contributor TimS offers up his picks of the 10 best non hip-hop albums of 2008… Get Your Mind Right – Included are the 10 non hip-hop albums that didn’t make me want to throat fuck myself with a soup spoon. Seriously, extremely bad and [...]