By – TimS Spring is here!!!! And for those of us living in the southern regions that means warm sunny weather, blooming flowers, and pollen covering outside surfaces like frat boys on a passed out freshmen. Living in an area highly populated by college students I get to witness both one of the most wondrous, [...]
Four remain in the NCAA Tournament. Who you putting your money on? MICHIGAN STATE – by Dank Big Ten stand up! They said we were weak, overrated and didn’t deserve all the nods we got for the tournament. But they won’t be having their Final Four without us! Congratulations is due to the Michigan State [...]
By – TimS I’ve tried to get this review started five times now, but I just don’t know how to introduce the fact that Brother Ali is fucking ridiculously talented. Or to find a way to talk about his recently released EP The Truth Is Here without sounding like a Rhymesayers Stan (my previous P.O.S. [...]
Take our word for it, everyone has an opinion this time of the year. And this happens to be ours. The Joint Contrast Final Four looks like this – Louisville, Memphis, Pittsburgh and Oklahoma – discuss amongst yourself… ‘MIDWEST’ SWINGIN – by Dank Lucas So here it is folks, the most uninformed analysis of college [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
By – TimS I made a bet. Not a bet involving money or humiliating acts of any sort. But a bet I felt, had I won, the reward would outweigh the punishment had I lost. That bet was on the Super Bowl. If the Cardinals pulled off an upset my buddy Joe from the Steel [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]