38 years after the fact, and 33 years after Joe Meek’s final self-destruction, those involved with my favourite single of all time, The Tornados’ “Telstar”, seem destined to forever intrude on my life. I read in the current ed[…]

Rawkus Presents The Cleaner (mix CD, free with the May 2000 issue of Hip Hop Connection magazine, out now priced £2.99)
A few examples of the best recent outputs of Rawkus acts, mixed by arguably Britain’s greatest hip hop deejays, Tony V[…]

COMMON – The Light (from the album Like Water For Chocolate)
Greg brings up “The 6th Sense” which is the first single from the
new Common album in his last post. He mentions how it has the
intelligence for the street and the beat fo[…]

“The revolution will not be televised… The revolution is here!” Perhaps the revolution Common (n_ Sense) refers to is what’s generally seen as his big push for crossover success.
“In order to get the critical praise and […]

DMX – Bugout
Eve – Do That Shit (both from the Ruff Ryders Compilation “Ryde or Die Volume 1”)
Hot Boys – Help (from the album “Guerilla Warfare”)
One of the problems with dissing the gangsta ethos which thor[…]

I have no idea whether Pitchfork is right about Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature, because having asked for and got the record for my birthday I’ve played less than a third of it, out of a fear that it sounds exactly like Brent DiCrescenzo […]

ERIC B. & RAKIM – “I Know You Got Soul” (from the
album Paid in Full)
Black Star – “Respiration” (CD Single)
DMX – “What’s My Name” (from the album And
Then There Was X)
Aceyalone &#82[…]

Mos Def and Mahler? Debussy and Rakim? No, no. How about Warren G. and Borodin in the strangest crossover ever? This was the single from an album which was to have mixed hip-hop and classical; one that, to this day, i don’t believe has ever bee[…]

The band that killed rock and roll….and I have never in my life heard one of their records.[…]

Death Rock 2000: brilliant essay by Frank Kogan from the Village Voice which touches on so many bases I couldn’t possibily comment after one reading. But you must look at it, that much I do know.[…]