Archive for February, 2007

dollabin

Speaking of free albums… I recently acquired an album called ‘one more crate…’ by dollabin. It was a random, but fruitful pickup. The album is smooth and soulful, definitely worth more than free 99. The group is the duo of DJ Ian Head, and Verbal Math. The two were introduced to the hip hop scene [...]

Serengeti

Chicago native Serengeti is one of the best underground hip hop artists you’ve never heard of. His lyrics are deeply political, and he makes very strong statements with them. Blending hip hop with elements of rock, the backgrounds and beats in each song reflect the diversity of the landscape with which he shares a name [...]

Artist Spotlight: Evildesign

As is probably apparent from the image, Evildesign is a design company, with a bit of a twisted view of humanity. Not twisted as in inaccurate, but twisted as in darkly humorous and cynical. Nobody in their designs looks normal; each seems to be tragically flawed. And yet, each seems oddly cute and appealing [...]

PE Allstars

Since I will be attending their concert tomorrow, i find it fitting that today’s post should be about the Gym Class Heroes. To sum them up in one word: awesome. Their style is hard to define: it is hip hop, but it uses live instruments like The Roots or the Brand New Heavies. But dissimilar [...]

Artist Spotlight: Chuck Anderson

Chuck Anderson is the man behind the graphic design company NOPATTERN. The man has worked for such clients as Nike, Reebok, Absolut Vodka, and Nokia. As well, he is responsible for album art on Fallout Boy’s ‘Infinity on High,’ Lupe Fiasco’s ‘Food and Liquor,’ and many other artist’s albums. His designs are generally very colorful [...]

Electroplankton

This weekend, I discovered one of the coolest video games out there. Its called Electroplankton and its on the Nintendo DS. Its an interactive music video game where a song plays in the background, you edit the song and mix it, making loops and adding lots of different sounds. The game’s theme is plankton, so [...]

MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH

**WARNING**
The following video contains completely unnecessary and unwanted nudity, perpetuates bad stereotypes of both rappers and black people in general, glorifies being fiscally irresponsible, condones intentionally acting like an idiot, demeans women, and contains a terrible song. Listening to Nelly can be extremely harmful to both your mental, and physical health, and actually watching his [...]

Kiser NY

Kiser is an up and coming clothing brand out of NYC. Their clothing uses bold styles, and hold powerful, but subtle messages of peace. Their clothing is attractive, comfortable, and very wearable. They were the one to design the shirt for DJ A-Trak’s “Sunglasses is a Must” tour (see below) They were recently added to [...]

Prince Paul, in the nest of corruption

Most hip hop heads will recognize the name, and know who I’m talking about. But for those of you who don’t let me lay it down for you… Ever heard of Handsome Boy Modeling School? Well that was the duo of Prince Paul & Dan The Automator. Handsome Boy Modeling school is probably some of [...]

Valentine’s Love

Happy Valentines Day. To spread the love today, I got a lot of music for you. Firstly, I would like to remind everyone about the DJ sets available on the downloads section. Whats new? Well a third mental mix, this time its all about the Jazz. Jazz influenced hip hop, electronica and more. Check it [...]