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Quelque Chose

By Black | Published: March 10, 2010
Many apologies devoted readers. I’ve been distracted this week with a post I’ll have to deliver next Wednesday. Instead, you’re going to have to deal with this wackjob cameo-stuffed Vampire Weekend video for the super-glossy “Giving Up The Gun”. A ringed-out RZA refs in Matrix-garb. A scruffy Jonas loses gracelessly. A drunk Jake Gyllenhaal threatens [...]
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My New Theme Song

By Black | Published: March 3, 2010
I’m 6′5″. Sometimes that’s neat. Other times it’s obnoxious. At the amusement park, for example, I can’t ride certain rides because I just can’t keep my limbs and head safely out of harm’s way and my spine isn’t short enough to sit comfortably in those harnesses that clamp down over your shoulders. And all those [...]
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Fore & Aft: Echoplex

By Black | Published: February 24, 2010
“Ella-ella-ella-ay-ay-ay”. Or so goes the biggest line of the biggest single of 2007. The deviously catchy delivery tactic of that echoing artifact sunk its hooks in so deeply that over the last few years, we’ve heard its success replicated far and wide by both the original songwriting team of The-Dream and Christopher “Tricky” Stewart and [...]
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Gentlemen’s Fisticuffs

By Black | Published: February 22, 2010
For Robert…
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Senseis Are Standing By

By Black | Published: February 17, 2010
I wasn’t as enamoured with The Ecstatic as everyone else appeared to be. First off, the mix sounded really strange to me, the same kind of strange that the Q-Tip album sounded. It had sloppy production on the beats end with flat sonics and not much frequency range, so the vocals sat on top of [...]
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Every Day The Fourteenth

By Black | Published: February 14, 2010
Happy/fuck that Valentine’s Day from your friends at The Cadillac Of Winter. Outkast – Happy Valentine’s Day [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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Songs That Explode: A Primer

By Black | Published: February 10, 2010
I particularly like songs that, you know, do stuff. Sequentially, the thing about doing stuff is that one goes from doing nothing to doing something. Causally, the tension of not doing stuff often propels one into doing stuff. But if we were talking about absolute opposites, doing nothing would just be nothing and doing something [...]
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Fore & Aft: Drinking Songs

By Black | Published: February 1, 2010
Fore & Aft is a new series dedicated to exploring the ways hit songs influence other hit songs, for better or for worse. In my household, one of the more polarizing songs from last year was the Jamie Foxx/T-Pain collabo “Blame It On The Alcohol”, a little ditty celebrating drunkenness as an excuse to do something [...]
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Warzone

By Black | Published: January 25, 2010
I’ve recently reunited with my record collection after three years living without it. On the one hand, the mass of vinyl has caused some difficulties in living space organization with all the other things I’m reclaiming from storage. But it’s pretty awesome having them back. I remember growing up with my Dad’s large home-made modular [...]
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Scott Walker

By Black | Published: January 20, 2010
If you haven’t heard of Scott Walker, he’s worth some research. I highly recommend all of his solo albums Scott I-IV. There’s also an excellent documentary with David Bowie executive producing (he was a big influence on Bowie throughout his career) called 30 Century Man I hunted down and watched today. It’s definitely worth a [...]
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