Archive for June, 2008

Heads Up For Dance Fans

As summer progresses at whatever pace it chooses, and I continue on my seemingly endless search for new music I find myself whittling hours away on Last.FM. Most of the stuff I hear on there I’ve never heard before, and some of it I wish never to hear again. But that persistent little gray box [...]

Mass Appeal with Autorock

I don’t know if you remember our last post about Vinyl Meltdown’s friend Autorock, but his last mixtape, Assquake was a straight banger. His newest endeavour, Mass Appeal follows up very strong. Its hard for me to say which is better, but I lean slightly towards the newest. The mix is 150 samples in 70 [...]

Running Man

Today, I will run.
Why?
Because DJ A-Trak said so.
And I take his advice.

Today, DJ A-Trak joins the ranks of Aesop Rock, Lance Armstrong, The Crystal Method, Serena Williams, and other musicians, athletes, and fitness enthusiasts by contributing to Nike and iTunes’ “Nike+” project. The project includes an iPod Nano attachment that allows you to track your [...]

Justice Parody

Some Frenchies crafted a brilliant parody of the equally brilliant Justice video for Stress. Here it is:

Justesse No Stress (Parodie du clip de Justice)by Lesairsavif

Vote Boogie Bots

What up folks? We at Vinyl Meltdown love all things about the hip hop culture and music culture in general. We particularly love such things that come from DC. And so when I found out there was a DC crew in this season of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew I got very excited. And it [...]

Jay Who? Exactly!

In hip hop, it seems like everyone and they momma is named Jay (or J-) something or other. Jay-Z. J-Dilla. J-Live. J-Zone. Jay Electronica.And today’s featured artist is no different. “Jay Who?” you ask, to which I simply respond, “Exactly!” That’s right, today’s featured artist is called Jay Who? (aka Jamie Wholigan). He’s an emcee, [...]

Worst News Ever

Quoted from MTV.com
One is hip-hop’s king of collaborations. The other is his R&B equivalent. For once, you can believe the rumors: Lil Wayne and T-Pain indeed have plans to form a supergroup.
Weezy confirmed the report with a simple “Yeah” on Monday in Los Angeles, where he was filming his spot in Cassie’s new video “Official [...]

Posers Can’t Stop It

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_hkWn56GY[/youtube]
Yessir. 

Seeing Sounds?

I guess I should start with this statement about N.E.R.D.’s “Seeing Sounds”.
This would be the in the top 5 albums of the year if it lasted 20 more minutes.
Not even kidding. Seriously though, it is quite good. Now to the actual review: N.E.R.D. is yet another one of Pharrell’s side projects, featuring Pharrell, Neptunes production [...]

The Good, The Bad, The Weird II

You thought I forgot about my new segment didn’t you? Well I didn’t (for those of you who don’t know, I previously started a new “regular” segment). Well, I haven’t been keeping to regular, but I just got my fiber on, and am ready to drop a new load.
The Good:
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds

You have probably [...]