I don’t post enough new music on here, I know but I really dig this. Don’t sleep.
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The folks at Cultures of Soul have a new CD/LP out – World’s Funkiest Covers – and obviously, this is of interest to moi! There’s some of my personal favorites on here, including Nostalgia 77′s wicked remake of “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes and, of course, Ray Barretto’s epic “Pastime Paradise” cover. You can peep some samples off the album below: (Purchase the comp here). Two things: 1) COS was nice enough to sponsor a CD giveaway for this new album. To enter, send us an email, subject [...] Continue reading “WORLD’S FUNKIEST COVERS” CD GIVEAWAY + UPCOMING GIG
I first “met” Sasha about 10 years back, through a now-defunct listserv (remember those?) for other music writer nerds. It was extremely gratifying to see him [...] Continue reading THE SIDEBAR #14: SASHA FRERE-JONES
Noz was actually one of the first people I interviewed for The Sidebar but I decided to hit reset on that OG convo and instead, try out an idea: an audiobiography, i.e. a discussion of music filtered [...] Continue reading SIDEBAR #11: NOZ OF COCAINE BLUNTS
I met Charlie Bethel aka Chuck Wild aka Captain Planet through his brother Wil (aka DJ Murphy’s Law), my old DJing partner at the Short Stop. At the time, Chuck was living out in Brooklyn, but last fall, he picked up and moved West, landing out here in L.A. As Captain Planet, he’s been responsible for three Afro-Latin flavored EPs on Bastard Jazz thus far: Gumbo Funk (2005), Speakin’ Nuyorican (2009) and the just-released Ningané. He’s also at work on his first full-length, Cookin’ Gumbo, due out later this fall, also on Bastard Jazz. Chuck also [...] Continue reading SIDEBAR #10: DJ CAPTAIN PLANET
I love the Summer Songs series but this year, I just had to take a [...] Continue reading MY SUMMER SOUNDTRACK (SO FAR)
Been waiting for this one to come out for months now – Quantic and company take on a few hip-hop classics and run it through the cumbia-treatment. Quantic first started this a couple of years back with his “Cumbia De Dilla” and then followed that last year with “Dre En Cumbia.” Here’s the entire tracklisting: Continue reading QUANTIC: HIP HOP EN CUMBIA EP |
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