Grandma's Basement

2006-04-30T13:35:00.000-05:00

I never really post on here but this needs mega rainbow bazooka posting. This is totally insane. The balls hooked onto this man may not be in there tomorrow morning once the CIA gets their hands on him, but last night, Colbert riffed on America in full punk rock glory. Watch the man in action.

Colbert Roasts Bush 1
Colbert Roasts Bush 2
Colbert Roasts Bush 3

I am one to declare openly that I, among everybody else not in that room last night, to have a huge mancrush on him. God bless America!

2006-04-29T17:08:00.000-05:00

I just don't know what to do with myself, da da. I just don't know what to do with myself, da da. I really don't. This whole blogging thing is getting boring to me. I need something to keep me motivated. I'm just bored of it. Everyday I just post links. There aren't too many blogs that are highly creative (There are some really good blogs though). I simply don't have any motivation to go on. Plus, my dad just got employed with a corporate company ($122,000 base salary, and big bonus) so the whole Grandma's Basement has lost it's edge. I would be more than happy to be writing with another blog, but I don't think my writing can hold up a blog. Blogs need to be updated alot. I'd prefer to let things breathe. So I'm most likely going to hang up the jersey. But maybe Tom will still keep the train going. Thank you to my small following and bests to all. Remember the name Joe Lazar. Sienara.

P.S.-If you'd like me to help you out at your blog, please email me, because I'd love to.

2006-04-29T11:19:00.000-05:00

The Nintendo Revolution has changed the official name to the Nintendo Wii. 1up has now posted an in-depth feature on Wii. I'll just point out some key points.

-I've talked to some of my friends at school, and they say that they would like a feature of a regular controller, instead of only using the insanely brilliant Wii controller (Pictured above). Nintendo has said that two controllers are going to be compatible. "Nunchuck" and "Shell". Shell being the Gamecube styled one. You can also use Gamecube controllers and memory cards if you want.

-It will be the cheapest system coming out of the Next-Gen systems. Possibly being as low as $150.

-You'll be able to download old-school Nintendo games from every system, with possible graphic enhancements for them.

-It will most likely feature online play. Yes, Yes, Yes.

-It will be released hopefully by Holiday Season '06.

-There is still a final secret that will smash our faces in even more than this thing already has.

Take a few minutes to read the full 5 page feature. Just to let people know, I'm going to be standing in line with a tent waiting for this.

Nas was right: life's a bitch, than you die.

2006-04-28T15:50:00.000-05:00

Busta Rhymes-The Big Bang (Exclusive New Song)

MF Grimm-Watch Out (New Song)

Information on Christina Aguilera's upcoming album, Back To Basics. I love my pop princesses, especially when DJ Premier produces half the album.

Some hip-hop shows were announced. But since those are in NY, and I live in Chicago, I'm going to try to go to this.

I've had Firefox for a long time, and it's majors above Internet Explorer. Firefox feels like the Revolution, and IE feels like N64. Now Google is getting in on the idea of a Firefox populated internet. Explorer Destroyer. Firefox is so good, if you refer someone to it, you get money. Get Firefox already.

I had a few spare bucks, so I got two Powerades. Man, Powerade is so fantastic. Now all I'll accept going down my throat is Powerade, Water, Propel, and Gatorade.

2006-04-27T16:08:00.000-05:00

Snoop is released without any charges.

Quentin Tarantino is making a Jimi Hendrix movie set for 2007.

People who talk on forums, here's a good avatar to have. It's Cam'ron spitting on a little girl.

White Sox fans, if yod didn't know already, Hawk and DJ have a blog now.

Seems like the hip-hop world has been boring of late. Nothing too creative to talk about. Just links and links and links.

2006-04-26T18:57:00.000-05:00

Since I now reside with my grandparents, my Grandpa (We call him Papa) is always hanging around. He is 80 years old, and needs an oxygen tank, so he usually is reading the paper, watching TV, and sitting at his old faithful chair. Well as I was going to the library, I noticed something about him. He wears hip-hop clothes. He was wearing bright white Reeboks, almost identical to Jam Master Jay's. He had super baggy shorts on, with high socks, so you couldn't see any of his skin. Then he just had a generic T-shirt on, looking like he just didn't care much about the top. Just because everything wasn't fresh (Except for maybe his kicks), or he wasn't wearing a jersey, or he didn't have Paul Wall made grillz, doesn't mean he wasn't hip-hop. Papa is a wise, wise man. He is also a former Priest. He's got soul, much like your local Reverend. He was also formerly in the Navy, so he might of took some lives, possibly like your's, mine, and our's favorite rapper. Catching on. Keep the soul Papa.

Tonight at dinner, we had a cheesecake sampler. Which is a variety of different kinds of slices. I took a minute to find out which piece I wanted. Then Papa told me this story. He said that an old farmer hired a man to help him around the house. He told the man to cut all the trees down. In a half hour, the trees were cut. Then he said to chop them into logs, and make them into piles. In a half hour, the job was done. The old man thought he'd let the man have an easy job since he had done all this hard work. He told the man to organize his potatoes. The good ones went in this basket, the bad ones went in this basket, and the ones you weren't sure of go in this basket. The old man came back after a half hour, and the man was passed out. The old man splashed water on the man. "What happened, you cut all the trees, made logs, and put them in piles." The man replied. "It's all these damn decisions!"

I thought that story was true. Decisions are more hard then labor. Think about it. When you go to Best Buy, and have two albums in your hand. It's impossible to pick the right one, since you might have enough money for just one. Labor, you'll complain, but it's never that hard. You just don't want to do it.

-I found a horrifying thing. Open up Microsoft Word. Type in capital letters, Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first plane that hit the Twin Towers. Highlight the Q33 NY. Change the font size to 48. Change the font type to Windings. Crazy isnt it?

-Looks like the NFL basically invited the whole Def Jam roster to this party.

-By the way, Lupe Fiasco's album is still set for June 27

-Where has George gone? It's now almost a whole month.

2006-04-25T12:00:00.000-05:00

"Now the fellas... Na-Na-NaNaNa" How many times does Paul have to play "Hey Jude". Well the answer is every concert. I was thinking about how acts like McCartney, Stones, etc. just play greatest hits concerts. I mean when you are still coming out to "Jumping Jack Flash" in 2006, it's about time you should come up with some relavant music. And both Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones had good albums in 2005 (McCartney's being great actually). Yet McCartney only played two songs off of Chaos and Creation In The Backyard. Old timer bands always make the setlist completely predictable, consisting of two-three dreadful new songs, and 15 or so 'remember this one' sort of tunes. I just think it's about time for those bands to give it up if they are just going to play "Start Me Up", "Tumbling Dice", and "You Can't Always Get What You Want". Or at least play some of the rarely played greatest hits if you're gonna stick to the formula. They always say they are giving the fans what they want. The fanboys will say you are, but deep down inside they want to hear something off of Bigger Bang. Hell, I bet they'd kill to see some Flaming Pie action. It's time to mix it up especially when you have a good album. I thought of this because I was watching an AC/DC DVD. They came out to "Thunderstruck", then after that Brian Johnson said "We got some Back In Black for ya!" I was just laughing so hard. Now I'm sure if I was at a concert I'd be singing "Hey Jude" with the 45 year old business man on my right and the 43 year old mom to the left. So I'll give some awareness to my possible hypocracy. But this is starting to hurt some bands. Take U2 for example. On their Live From Chicago DVD, the whole crowd is business men, the teenagers are non-existent (Although the UK shows do have people below 35). The show is pretty bad from a U2 standpoint too. The worst parts being the greatest hits time when the show was totally out of sync just to get "New Years Day" in there. I just think old timers should at least put some effort into making the setlist. Just no more "Hey Jude" Paul.

I actually listened to the radio for the first time in ages this past weekend. I'm going to give you a little report on the radio.

*Rihanna's new single "SOS" is amazing.
*Bubba Sparxxx' single "Ms New Booty" is horrible.
*Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" is pretty boring.
*I learned that I love all of Ciara's singles, especially "Goodies".
*The Ying Yang Twins singles are really catchy. By the way their last album is highly underrated.
*Power 92 is having a Spring concert with T.I., Paul Wall, and Juel Santana.

-Did you know that Michael Jackson didn't write "Thriller". Rod Temperton did.

As John Kruk said, the White Sox got their swagger back this past week and a half.

2006-04-22T09:52:00.000-05:00

Well if some of my readers don't know why the blog is called Grandma's Basement, let me explain. Well my family and I got evicted from our original house, so now we live in my grandma's basement. When we moved into my grandma's basement, our pet dog CoCo couldn't stay with us, because Mama and Poppa have cats, so this couldn't work out. We had to give CoCo to my sister's best friend's parent's house. They are animal lovers, so we agreed to the terms. CoCo is aging. I believe she is around 15 or 16 right now. She was beginning to have a limp in her stride. She has now reached the point where she might just be ready to throw in the towel. I mean she just got back from the hospital, and now she can't walk at all. I feel bad, because we had to strand her to live some place, but we still love her to death, and always talk about her, but she probably thinks that we were a bunch of jerks who dropped her off, and abandoned her. She is hurt too, because she was abandoned before and given to a shelter, where we picked her up, and kept her for around all of her 15 or so years. So twice in her life she has been dropped off, and left in the dust. I'm going to drive over to her current space, and see her for maybe the last time ever. This is tough man. I'm almost crying now, and will most definitely cry when I see her. CoCo was one hell of a dog. It's too bad her hours are coming to a close.

2006-04-20T10:30:00.000-05:00

Yesterday I heard what might be the two best records of the year: Spankrock-Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo and Rhymefest-Blue Collar. I slipped on both records to hear what they were like, actually intending just to burn a record (no hate, I'm poor!) and stumbled on these two. I had heard that Rhymefest was a substitute teacher who made "Jesus Walks" and destroyed Eminem in a freestyle and decided to check him out. I'm still looking for my testicles; I believe they've been kicked somewhere up in the bellybutton region, but I can't be sure because I don't even know if they exist anymore after listening to that record. I want to describe in full galactic detail the album but I must resist simply because I want the listener to hear for the first time with complete virgin ears, not expecting anything but the lower region of your body to be smashed into stardust and to enjoy it. It comes out officially June 11th so make sure you have the neccessary funds. Please support Rhymefest!

Rhymefest ft Kanye West- Brand New
Rhymefest vs Seez Mics
Rhymefest vs Swann (Swann actually might have won this one)

Spankrock is certainly much crazier; listening to it reminded me of Prefuse 73 in terms of jumping from one ultimate craziness to the next. It's pretty boss and more than definitely worth checking out. In fact, I believe you can go buy it right now for $15.99 or so, or $9.99 off of iTunes. Do what you have to get this record. The bank will understand.

Let me tell you something: these albums are fucking amazing, with both the words fucking and amazing not coming within the ballgame of wordpower needed to fully showcase how great they are. Check the clips out and please purchase these records!

P.S. Ghostface is still purchasable as well. Think about it: how many copies do you have of Fishscale? One? Not nearly enough. You need one for each room. Each room you've ever been in.

2006-04-19T09:59:00.000-05:00

Dudley Perkin's new album Expressions has crept into my early favorites. If you can compare him to something, it's the psychedelic (Thank you Google spell check), weird, and '60s side of John Legend. Madlib produced the entire album, so it was put into dependable hands. I recommend it to all.

Funky Dudley (MP3)

^That's not a sign of the whole album, it's the only legal download I could give you guys. The album is all funky like that, but still a top tune.

I've picked up a new indie hipster craze album, Spank Rock's YoYoYoYoYoYo. It's supposed to be a crazy album, so I'll keep you update with how it goes.

While I'm on the subject of top albums, I'll give you my early top five of the year.

1. Ghostface-Fishscale
2. J Dilla Jay Dee-Donuts
3. Dirty Pretty Things-Waterloo To Anywhere
4. Dudley Perkins-Expressions
5. The Strokes-First Impressions Of Earth

Some good Rakim stuff

AllHipHop's take on the leak of Lupe Fiasco

Lupe Speaks on the leak

Keep voting for "Kick, Push" on TRL!! And add 106 & Park to the campaign.

Interesting fact: 106 & Park is more watched than TRL

2006-04-18T11:57:00.000-05:00

Since Food & Liquor leaked, Lupe has said that he "doubts" the album will come out now. He said that he has been working on it for around 5 years now, and he hates to see all this work get let out like this. Well I haven't downloaded it yet, and I'm not plannning on doing it, and this was one of my most anticipated albums of the year. So I need this to come out. Well I thought I got to do something to try to turn his mind (Although I do think it will come out no matter what). I've made an account at MTV, so I could vote for "Kick, Push" on TRL. It just got premiered so yes, you can vote for it. Just go to this link, once you are logged in. Click "Kick, Push", then hit submit at the bottom. Vote!!

Remember Jack White was supposed to make a Coca-Cola song? Well it seemed like it was never going to happen, but today I tripped across the commercial. It's easily the coolest and most oddest Coke commercial ever. The song is pretty good, but the actual ad is really weird.

Gnarls Barkley review by Bol

On the newest Sound Opinions, Jim and Greg discuss Fishscale. You have to skip to about the last 3/4 of the episode to get to that part.

I passed on The Go! Team's debut last year. Boy was I wrong. It's easily my third favorite album of last year behind Kanye and M.I.A.

Ladyflash (Video)

My dad was one of those people who didn't like hip-hop, although he never really heard it. Well I showed him Biggie, Kanye, and Jay-Z. He likes it now. It goes along with my previous post about people whom if they actually listened to "Can I Live" they'd like it. My experiment proves that as a fact.

2006-04-16T10:33:00.000-05:00

Stand up East London, Rascal!! Dizzee Rascal is supposedly having a new album titled Maths and English coming out in May. People who have heard Dizzee, must be very happy at the moment. This was such a nice surprise for me. I didn't think anything coming out relatively close could knock out Fishscale, but now Ghost might get some (very little) dust when Maths and English is dropped.

Plus, who needs gmail when you can get your own Dizzee Rascal email address. Let the movement begin.

You can watch around 10-15 mins. of his performance he did at Irvnig Plaza in NYC last year on his site. He raps the verses of "Dream" over the beat of "Juicy" at the end. It looks like it was a blast to be at.

He's touring with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Europe, so all you lads go and see him.

Dizzee makes some of the best videos around nowadays. I mean, watch these.

Fix Up Look Sharp
Dream
I Luv U

Another thing brightened up this cloudy Easter Day. On a calendar of hip-hop albums being released this year, Kanye West's next installement titled Graduation is locked and loaded for an autumn release. Man, I love hip-hop.

2006-04-14T19:21:00.000-05:00

I was searching around for an interview Jack White did with Rolling Stone back in the Elephant days in which he talked about how he wasn't that big of a fan of hip-hop outside of Wu-Tang and Outkast (he also thinks Missy Elliot is completely amazing((Double Parenthesis: the real reason I was looking for this interview was because I wanted to see the sentence again where Jack White said he liked Wu-Tang.)

Anyways, I found the little bit on hiphopmusic.com. After the little paragraph in which Lord Jack discussed his tastebuds inching away from hip-hop, the author of this blog oldie, jsmooth995, discusses just what it is that he loves about hip-hop:

"For 6 years I was a teacher/counselor for "emotionally disturbed" teens at a group home upstate. One day we went on a field trip and walked by a construction site, and the sound of drilling rattled our bones. As we went by one of my favorite students, Kelly Miles, turned to me and said "That sound is dope! Somebody needs to sample that and make a beat with it." I knew exactly what she meant, and what made that drilling sound so dope had nothing to do with rhythm, melody, or storytelling. It was the noise itself that had an irresistibly visceral quality to it. As Public Enemy so wisely observed, that's one of the most important qualities found in any good hip-hop- you have to bring the noise."

Link To Article

Excellent couple of paragraphs that completely and galactically sums up any hip-hop lover's ear evolution. The last week I've been able to sleep next to an open window at night. The wind breezes it's eerie breathes across the screen, bugs send out rhythmic hellos, goodbyes and everything in between, a train sends out its colossal doomsday screech while chugging across a steel trail. And my brain computes every one of these sounds into a song. I don't mean that in some arrogant Look, I'm Mozart way but rather the effect hip-hop has had on me. With other musical genres, such as rock for example, 95% of people working the gears think only within what the guitar can do. And when I say guitar I mean Keith Richards rhythm guitar strumming-the basic guitar sound. The ones who stick within this temple only stick along with this line; they don't think how they can make that train sound with guitar, how they make their appregoes sound like grasshoppers, how to create the push of wind. They only think within a very tight, restricted box, witch has created some of the most brilliant music on the planet, and will continue do as evident by the ultimateness known as the White Stripes. But the majority of these crowds are not nearly within the inventive range of Just Blaze, Pharrell, Dre, Kanye, RZA, MF Doom, or any of the other scientists sitting in a lab in their basement, trying to emulate the sound of scissors hitting a brick in a thunderstorm, about to blow our minds.

2006-04-13T17:20:00.000-05:00

God bless Jim Thome. The Sox have won their 4th consecutive game, along with Thome extending his home run streak to 4 games as well. Now 6 HR on the year, technicially he is headed for 97 HR on the year. This lefty's swing is just beautiful. Everytime he swings the bat, it feels good. He is just so intimidating in the box to pitchers now. I get the same vibe when I watch Thome, as I do when Sheffield steps up to the plate. Just pure terror of something destructive. Thome's OBP is now .561, making him 2nd in the AL. He gets walked every game. Go ahead think I'm crazy, but I see the white version of Bonds right now. Lefty, powerful, intimidating, force, experienced veteran, and one hell of an OBP. Garland definitely was a scare today though. Two straight outings, where Jon has just got shelled. You still got time to spare, but don't keep us waiting much longer, we need you Garland. McCarthy has now allowed his first runs of the season, giving up 2 ER in 3 innings of work. But still a spectacular ERA of 2.00. With Paulie looking like he's locked in now, the Sox above .500, and this year's MVP known as Jim Thome, the Sox are heading to Chicago with some steam going.

Kanye has a DVD coming out really soon

Kanye in the studio

Stream Cory Gunz' mixtapes at his website.

Listen to Black Milk

My sister made my whole family some chocolate chip pancakes, and they were amazing. I can't let this go, without some recgoniztion. So here's a variety of different pancake recipes for you to enjoy.

2006-04-12T16:25:00.000-05:00

As we know, Proof from D12 has been shot to death. This is another tragic loss for hip-hop, caused by violence.

Something that gets me mad, is that this isn't being coveraged through out the news on TV. It's obviously gotten its way through the hip-hop crowd, but not the average human knows this. I mean come on, this should be broadcasted for everyone's eyes. People need to understand what is happening to people, specificly young black males. You have young black men getting their heads blown off all the time, but yet the news only finds time to show you the best way for you to step your golf game up. When they do find time to discuss matters having to do with violence, there is never coverage on blacks. I'm not saying I don't want people to know about what's happening in Iraq, but let's have a variety at least, to show what's happening to young black men. I don't want people to feist their eyes violence all the time, but you have to come to a point and agree that obvious things aren't being covered.

I'm worried that this will go into the eyes of people as hip-hop being violent and bad for people to listen to. We all know that MC's are trying to explain the opposite to us. Not many MC's encourage violence and sniffing cocaine. Listen to Reasonable Doubt. Jay-Z doesn't tell us he wanted to hustle, but he had to do this. He explains that we should never get involved with it.

Hip-hop is so true to us, that people can't handle it. Here in hip-hop, people don't sugar coat anything. They tell us straight up what's happening. But what average white parent will actually give Reasonable Doubt a chance? They look at the titles, and see that they had to sensor a title, so this surely must be bad for my kid. Some people don't give hip-hop a chance. I can't prove this, but I'm sure some, probably little, people would change their minds, if they actually listened to "Can't Knock The Hustle", "Can I Live", and "Regrets". Let's jump to right now America, fuck isn't a weapon, it's just a word.

Proof wasn't the greatest, most underappreciated MC ever, like some are now claiming. He was just a young black male hanging out in America.

R.I.P. Proof

2006-04-11T10:39:00.000-05:00

I am a rabid fan of the internet, like fanboy #1. But one thing that makes me unbelievably sad about the proliferation of the internet is listener apathy. It seems that less and less people are sitting down and soaking in albums or even just songs. There's so much on the internet to get your hands, so many songs on so many blogs, that it proves irresistible to keep surfing the net. It's as if just saying you've heard the song is good enough nowadays, that actually letting it grind into your life and affect you is becoming more and more dangerously something of the past and it makes me incredibly sad. By no means whatsoever is getting glued to an album or song or artist as old as Civil War but it just seems as if we're losing that magical connection with it.

The ironic twist of the sword is just how much we are enshroud in music all around us. Blogs, websites, P2P services, Torrents, IPods, ITunes, TV, malls, stores, movies, videogames-just absolutely everywhere you go there is a jingle to accompany it. But the emotional chord is thinning for a lot of people. The trend isn't permanent by any means or the end of the magic-people said the same thing about FM radio, records, tapes, and CD's, and, tada, we're still loving it. So no, the internet isn't the end but rather the beginning of something new and exciting, people just have to find the grip on the handle so they sit down and enjoy every ounce of the new Ghostface record, Fishscale, which you can find at your local record store and electronic store retail or ITunes under Ghostface Killah. It's cheap, come on, go buy it!

2006-04-10T15:40:00.000-05:00

Reported by MTV, Rakim and Nas are going to do buisness together. Not just passing the bills, passing the mic. This is great news for any person who knows moderately about hip-hop. Possibly, the two best MC's ever together, spinning our heads around like a kid in Toys 'R' Us. Since Nas is with Def Jam now, you know this project will be supplied with the right producers. I'm talkin Just Blaze, DJ Premier, 9th Wonder, Kanye West, possibly the Dr. will step by and give us our desire. Imagine that. Not only the two best MC's ever, but the best producer ever in Dr. Dre.

911's A Joke

The Sox have now picked up two wins in a row, after a near escape from nonother than the Royals. On Sundays finale in KC, Thome literally hit the ball out of the park. This is not scientificially proven, but look at this video. No one seems to know whats going on. Plus, you never see the ball land. Then today, we spoil Detroit's home opener, with a score of 5-3. Thome going long again, his fourth on the year. Garcia pitched well, with 6 innings of work, and 3 ER. Hopefully we at least get another victory out of this roadstand, to head back to Chitown on a good note.

What's going on with the Cubs? They are doing good, I mean they swept the Cards. (Note: Chicago you can now head over to your local ticket dealer to pick up your 2006 World Series Tickets.)

Former Roc-a-Fella Exectutive, Kenny Burns, has started up a new label. His spotlight artist is the nations capital's very own Wale. Burns says he is the next Jay-Z.

Ice Cube-Why We Thugs (Video)
I didn't like this song at first, but I'm starting to like it more. Although I just get a weird vibe when I see Ice Cube now. I just think of Are We There Yet?. By the way, look at that horrible album cover. It looks like a bad mixtape.

2006-04-07T18:00:00.000-05:00

We've all heard of the collaboration between best MC alive, Ghostface and super producer, MF Doom. The only thing that has reached sound waves so far has been a track, Angeles, that will most likely feature on their collabo EP, Swift and Changeable. I really like the song. It reminds me of a song that would be in Chinatown. As does many of Doom's cuts. By the way, the thing I mentioned about a GhostDOOM mixtape I found. Well it was phoney, so I'm sorry for getting your hopes up.

Thank you, Karl Malone.

A nice preview schedule of key hip-hop releases for the whole year.

Cuban Linx 2 info from RZA.

Check out Austin, over at What We All Want.

Google Going iTunes?

It looks like the Indians are going to be a tough contender in the Chisox way this year. The Indians picked up another victory against the Twins, in an 11-6 blowout. Sox are taking on KC, so hopefully we'll bounce back after a disappointing opening homestand.

Have you noticed when someone like Roger Clemens pitches inside, and hits someone, he is just playing the game right and teaching the hitter a lesson. But when Pedro throws inside and hits someone, he is being a dirty player.

Just Might Be Okay- Lupe Fiasco
This is the B-side to Kick, Push.

If anyone wants Papoose mixtapes, post below.

2006-04-06T14:27:00.000-05:00

Lately I've been listening to the Silent Hill soundtrack (for the videogame, and it's really more of a mixtape of all the series' music/sounds). The Silent Hills have always been brilliant maestroes, using sounds and music in more ways than one that have actually surpassed a lot of what has rolled out of Hollywood. Anyways, the other record I've been listening to a lot is still Ghostface. I was scavaging around the booklet, looking up where the samples were from and clicked: why the hell aren't more rappers turning to videogame soundtracks for inspiration? Videogame soundtracks have never been taken seriously as works of outstanding art as they should be, more like novelty tunes you hum when your friends are around to make them laugh, but some of them are absolutely amazing. Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy, Diablo; the list can absolutely go on forever. But would these match up with rappers? Brilliantly yes. Videogame soundtracks are used for atmosphere, not just jingleness. Silent Hill, for example, has mixes of slight rud-da-du-dum drumming, white noise, thin mandolin peels, and shoe steps; it's an audio collage but also has an eerie beauty to it. Feces will comfortably slide down to your socks, yes, but still, it's amazing. The emphasis on atmosphere undeniably suits hip-hop's storytelling ways, almost more like classical piece, really. The combination of Ghostface rapping over a siren and white noise (with no drums-that would be awesome) would create pretty blurry line between if that brown stuff by your butt was from ear-awesomeness of terror-come-anal-leakage.

Anyways, this sounds like it could at least be interesting so I'm going to see what I can make of it. Toodles

2006-04-04T16:58:00.000-05:00

The newest leak to the growing Gnarls Barkley collection, 'Just A Thought', is the best yet. It has splashing symbols, and tinkling spanish guitars. Cee-Lo's voice really standsout on it, more so than anyother Cee-Lo song to date. He doesn't nessecarily belt out notes and such, but he gives a candid performance, and a very calm, relaxing voice. Yet it still feels like a storm is arising inside him. Dangermouse has his moment, when he makes the song float around in wonderful music at the last minute.

Just A Thought

St. Elsewhere Tracklisting:

1. Go-Go Gadget Gospel
2. Crazy
3. St. Elsewhere
4. Gone Daddy Gone
5. Smiley Faces
6. The Boogie Monster
7. Feng Shui
8. Just A Thought
9. Transformer
10. Who Cares?
11. On-Line
12. Necromancer
13. Storm Coming
14. The Last Time

Also, Cee-Lo made a fresh track with Jack Splash of Plantlife, under the name Lovestink. It's another homerun for Cee-Lo.

Gangsta Boogie

I have found a mixtape with MF Doom and Ghostface. Stay Tuned...

2006-04-04T16:09:00.000-05:00

How many people can you screw over? Suge Knight has filed for bankruptcy after the highly possible chance of Death Row. You all know the story by now, Suge didn't pay money to someone who declares he just as much made Death Row as much as Suge did (financially speaking).

Suge Knight has put people under the bus before, literally and methaporhicly speaking. A more notable one was with Dick Griffey who is the former chairman of Solar Records. Griffey was close with Suge, even considered a father figure, claimed that there was a written agreement with Knight, in which Griffey deserved a large amount of the gross revenue Death Row was making. Griffey then was just about set to release a $125 million breach-of-partnership on Knight, but Knight and Griffey met, and cleared up the incident.

I don't know if Suge is going to try to clear this one up. I mean Michael Harris isn't exactly a father figure to our knowledge. It doesn't look like they are ready to discuss the matters, especially privately, since Harris is currently serving time.

This incident will affect some, but the music industry and music customers are clearly not hungry for anymore Death Row records anytime soon. What was the last decent Death Row album? About 10 years ago. Death Row only makes money from the newest Snoop Dogg greatest hits compilation, and for people who feel the need to buy The Chronic for the 6th time, just to make sure, if any of the albums burn out (which makes sense, safety first).

I have a question. The songs of Death Row would be handed over to the court. Does this mean that the original artists would own their own songs? That would be tremendous for an artist to finally have the rights to the masterpieces they've made.

I wonder how many FREE SUGE signs there will be this time around?

2006-04-02T16:12:00.000-05:00

This is the time of the year when I take off the headphones and put on ESPN all day. Due to the opening of the 2006 Baseball season, my number of posts, will now be lower. I usually watch every White Sox game of the year, and spend hours on the White Sox message boards instead of music message boards. It will be more of a couple times a week sort of blog now. This will also allow me to put together more focused essays hopefully for the blog, instead of just posting MP3 after MP3. I will still post artists that won't get noticed just to help them out a bit.

My predictions for each division are the following:

AL West: Oakland A's
AL Central: Chicago White Sox
AL East: NY Yankees

NL West: LA Dodgers
NL Central: St. Louis Cardinals
NL East: NY Mets

The NL looks so weak this year. White Sox will repeat this year.

2006-04-01T13:17:00.000-06:00

Busta Rhymes is officialy reaching John Rocker status. Sure the guy can make innoative music, but he is a first class moron. He recently smashed a glass bottle over Source magazine founder David Mays. This caused 50 stitches in the head for Mays. It was attempted possibly because the connection with Source disrespecting 50 Cent and Eminem, who Busta shares a record label with, and obviously must be pretty close for him to put 50 stitches in someone's head.

Busta then was chilling at 11th Street Diner in Miami. It's located right next to a gay club called Twist. At 11th Street, there were numerous drag queens, gay men, and transvestites. One gay fan approached him, and tapped him on the shoulder harmlessly, not in any gay manner, and congratulated Busta on his recent work. Busta must care enough about gay people, just as much as the current red, white, and blue leader, because Busta then hollered at the fan for his approachment. Then Busta's bodyguards pushed the fan away. The worst part is next. Busta whispered to the bodyguards that he "hates fuckin faggots." What's going on man? I can't imagine what would happen if there was an openly gay rapper in hip-hop today.

2006-03-30T16:29:00.000-06:00

Hip-hop has, since it's explosive arrival, been an amazing documentary source. From Wu-Tang to Jay-Z to Lauryn Hill, hip-hop has never even come close to loosening it's grips on lyrical prowess to any other music art form, arguably any other art form period. I haven't seen a movie or read a book that can as closely detail the horror of NYC's crack wars in the '80s than Liquid Swords. No movie, book, or news report has come within an afro pick of a distance to the intensity of being looked down upon and past in a world of violence, corruption, angst, and rage than Strait Outta Compton. It is amazing at detailing the world around us. In fact, one of the charging reasons why the information of what exactly is going on out "there" (meaning our own backyards, right past the multi-million dollar downtown lofts) is because of hip-hop. Everyone knows the deal of what's happening; drive down the highway and people can point out the ghettos. Businesswomen and men reclining back in the chairs for a moment can spot the "no fly zones" just right beyond. Anybody can easily recreate a gang shootout or looting or a bum getting beaten within an inch of his life. Than why the hell isn't anything being done about it?

There is something chilling about the fact that we can identify a ghetto and laugh about it. And I don't mean laugh about it in the sense of staring it down, overcoming it, but in a "Aw shucks" way, as if it's an everyday thing much like crammed traffic or waiting for a burrito to fully cook. What isn't hip-hop doing to fully grasp people and scream, "Wake up!" Take a look at the record I'm listening to right now, Fishscale by Ghostface. The album is brimming with dark tales from the hood that blow up into terrifyingly violent eruptions. It makes for an amazing song, but fucking disgusting reality. Ghostface's content may or may not be ficticious but the reality of the situation is balls on tight. Is it a good thing that people are getting shot over crack? Of course not. Than why aren't we taking these songs as seriously as we should be, beyond just being good party starters (or stoppers for the matter) or whatever?

Maybe it's the fact that serves itself mostly as a documentary source. A lot of the times it falls the ideals of what a lot of artists think- art serves as mirror for the times around us and clear pool to see ourselves in. But that is not all art can be. It can be a mirror ball for not just the way it is but the way it can be. My all time favorite music has been composed by U2. Listen to something like Where the Streets Have No Name; it doesn't just document the time, that feeling, but the hint of the possibilities of what can be, not just what is.

Now, of course, hip-hop raises it's voice a lot; it's not some politician on the hill pointing fingers with one hand, stuffing it's mouth with caviar with the other. But no one has fully risen to the point standing up like Atticus Finch and put up a real fight for what can be done. It will happen, maybe already has and I haven't heard it (or have and didn't read the scribes deep enough). Either way, it can't come soon enough.

2006-03-30T16:10:00.000-06:00

Ever since Tuesday, approximately at 4:37 in the late afternoon, the only record to challenge the ongoing musical assault that is Prince on my ears (Q: Will it ever end? A: No. And I'm giddy over that) is Ghostface's newest masterpiece, Fishscale. It's an unbelievably gorgeous album swimming deep in psychedelic, Just Blaze-ness, urban soul, and gritty drug-slinger noir. Songs cover topics as diverse as drug deals gone bad to how kids today are being brought up to be a bunch of Veruca Salts (with hilarious interlude skit before this). Fucking hell, the 1 minute or so skits/interludes are better than pretty much anything else you've heard all year, probably for the rest of the year. The lyrical complexity behind the songs is un-fucking-believable, the almost Jack Kerouac style of writing spitting out intense, nail biting, goosebumping, gut busting tales from the "clean" streets of Staten Island like Tarantino flicks smacked down into a 4 minute window. It's an outstanding accomplishment for music as a whole, not just the lyrical side. MF Doom, J Dilla, Just Blaze, and others contribute musical landscapes that perfectly synch up Ghostface's taste for, well, anything and everything. Genius that just keeps getting tastier.

2006-03-30T11:07:00.000-06:00

This MC I'm showing you is kind of mysterious. I can't find a picture of him. He doesn't say which specific hood he grew up in NYC. I'll try to give you what I can. He is Little Vic and was bred somewhere in NYC. He gets regualar play by DJ Whoo Kid on Hot 97. He is working on his debut album which will be released on Flood Industries. He's had tracks produced by high profile producers forsay DJ Premier and Red Spyda. His debut album will be released in the first quarter of 2006, so it must be released soon. I think Vic has lots of talent, and if he keeps getting makers like Premier, then he'll have a great album in store for us. What if you put this guy on a Just Blaze track?

Soundclick (Listen to Exorcist)
Myspace

Here's a Just Blaze article from the Village Voice.

This Chicago rock band Tenki emailed me their music. I must say they are pretty good. It's not too weird, but it's weird enough to grab your attention. Plus it's poppy enough to keep you interested. Because some indie bands are weird, but it can be boring.

Fishscale is a 5 mic album in my opinion. Everytime I listen to it, I hear new stuff, and enjoy it more. I love how there isn't many choruses. Just Ghostface rapping and doing it better than anyone in the game right now. His lyrics are tremendous on this album. 'Shakey Dog' is a whole story, with enough details that I could make my own short picture book on it. 'Big Girl' is about a girl who's addicted to cocaine, but Ghost is trying to tell her that she's got to get off of it to succeed. Even on his boast tracks, the lyrics are far superior then any thing. Listen to the first verse on 'Be Easy'. I don't think anybody is going to lay a beef on Ghostface. He'll just lay a smackdown on them. The MF Doom tracks are so weird and amazing. 'Underwater' has the perfect music for the lyric content. The lyrics seem to be about a dream. The music is haunting with the oooo's, and the flute makes it real dreamy. 'Jellyfish' sounds like a Beatles track from Magical Mystery Tour. Just Blaze once again doesn't fail, with the monster track 'The Champ'. Even the Wu-Tang reunion cut rocks. At first I thought, a Wu-Tang cut? I thought it was going to be sort of cheesy. Was I wrong or what? It's incredible, with once again Doom supplying a killer beat. All hail Ghostface Killah!

Bad news. Although King is great, Fishscale is better. But King is selling its share of copies...

2006-03-29T10:31:00.000-06:00

Toure took some time off his hands and did an interview with us.

Download Interview

Prince #1!!!!!!!

2006-03-28T10:50:00.000-06:00

The most intimidating and coolest guy in hip-hop keeps getting cooler. Ja Rule has signed up to do P.Diddy's new celebrity gauntlet, Cooking Showdown. His competition includes Tom Arnold and Ashley Parker Angel. I can't imagine how many 'Goddamn's were gonna hear. Tom Arnold will be on his A-Game with jokes like "It's hot!" and imitating black people. Don't watch this, because Food Network just started an Apprentice like show where a number of people try to become Fodd Network's next star. It's on Thurday's at 9 or 10 ET. Keep it real Ja.

Everyone buy Toure's new book Never Drank The Kool-Aid. It's a compilation of articles he wrote for NY Times, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, etc. There are some of the bets hip-hop articles I've ever read in here. I'm interviewing Toure today, so I'll post the interview tomorrow hopefully.

Off to buy Fishscale...

2006-03-27T13:33:00.000-06:00

Ghostface comes out tomorrow (Everyone buy it, I mean its only $6.99 at Best Buy)! I've only read XXL and Rolling Stone's reviews of it, and they both gave it a 4/5 (XL=4/5). I haven't heard the album yet, I'm holding out til tomorrow, and I'm already mad that it hasn't gotten straight 5's. It seems like the indie sites have reviewed the new Yeah Yeah Yeah's today, so Ghostface can get the spotlight tomorrow. Most hyped up release of the year for me so far. Ghostface is going to be on BET's Rap City tonight at 5 ET. Make sure you check that out. By the way does anybody know if 'Back Like That' has been getting any video or radio play?

Sound Opinion did a podcast with Jeff Chang on hip-hop. It's a little bit old (March 11th), but here it is.

'ATL' the movie has to have extreme security!?!? How often to white people have to have extreme security in a movie theatre?

Artifakt is a Brooklyn rapper that I like enough that I'd post him on Grandma's Basement. Listen to him.

Showin Love
I'm Coming (Introduction)

I've started to listen to E-40's new album, and I'm enjoying myself. It reminds me of the Ying Yang Twins last record. Just off the wall beats, with some unique flows brought to the table.

My current judgement on T.I.'s King is currently a 4 mic album. Bordering 4.5 mics. It's the best thing I've heard all year so far. But, let's not get ahead of ourselves, a certain Fishscale comes out tomorrow.

The Black Eyed Peas have a good song! That was thought to never come out of not just my mouth, but out of anybody's mouth. It's called 'They Don't Want Music'. It features James Brown, produced by Pete Rock, and will feature on their upcoming remix EP, Renegotiations: The Remixes.

2006-03-25T18:16:00.000-06:00

I just wanted to remind everybody that on Sunday the 26th of March, Toure is going to interview Dave Chapelle on BET. It's going to air at 12 ET time. By the way, I'm interviewing Toure very soon, and will post the recording on the blog when its ready. I'll talk to everybody on Monday again. Keep it ice cold.

To keep everybody happy, here's some Prince videos.

Brit Awards 2006
Prince Acoustic (Musicology Tour on MTV)
George Harrison Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame Induction

2006-03-24T16:29:00.000-06:00

Romey is the chosen one I was speaking of yesterday. I'm so excited for a proper release from this guy. This is one of the more hyped up rappers of late for myself. He grew up as a boy from the City Of Wind. Then moved around the globe for a bit, due to issues. He is a staggering and intimitating 6'7". He will literally lay a smackdown on you. His flow is an utmost gift from God. He reflects inspiration from Hova. He does that swaggering asshole laugh after he owns the mic just like Jay. There is a track where he lets his fellow Get Rich Record employees jump on the mic with him. The other MC's do their share, but when Romey takes the mic towards the end, you just feel something. Put some beats behind him, and drop a record ASAP.

Myspace (Listen to Get Rich All Stars and Go Crazy freestyle over and over and over again.)

2006-03-23T16:29:00.000-06:00

Wise Mecca is a female MC/Singer. She will obviously bring comparisons to the likes of Lauryn Hill, but she still has a refreshing voice with still a griddy and homemade feel to the production. Her song "Ghetto Gospel" is on high play of late, and her debut album titled Supreme Mathamatics is in the making.

Ghetto Gospel
Myspace

The Myspace of the day is DJ Bazz. He is a producer who made a song that reminds me of the Ghost Dog soundtrack, but if Dr. Dre made a beat for it.

All Hip-Hop interview with Vakill. Vakill's newest release, Worst Fear Confirmed, is early contender for album of the year without a doubt.

T.I.'s new album, King, is on The Leak on MTV for those of you who havent heard it yet. The first nine tracks are phenomenal, but then the second half falls off the map. The tracklisting is also pretty horrible.

Tune in tomorrow for a new upcoming MC who'll most likely blow your face off.

2006-03-21T17:53:00.000-06:00

I try not to do multiple posts per day, but Gnarls Barkley has a myspace now, with four songs off of St. Elsewhere! This album is going to disrupt the orbit of the Earth.

Myspace

2006-03-21T15:50:00.000-06:00

Obsidian Blue is a tremendous producer. He is grew up in North Carolina, but then moved to Oklahoma due to his work in the Air Force. He claims A Tribe Called Quest's Jazz album changed his life. He was huge into school bands his whole childhood and teens. To show the extent of his skills, he earned the title of Corps Commander in the Air Force, which is a drum major. He is still loves to watch cartoons, like Looney Tunes and stuff, as long as it isn't too 'punkified'. He will also kick your ass in Tekken.

Major Influences: Herbie Hancock, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, Art of Noise, and the late J-Dilla.

Myspace
Soundclick

Solo Flight

Also, Government Names just did a post on DK. He is a rapper from Baltimore whom you should check out. There is a free MP3 on GN (Which is another hip-hop blog to bookmark).

To bring back memories, here's Jordan's Top 10 Dunks.

2006-03-20T15:53:00.000-06:00

A-Guttah is from Chitown. Growing up in the streets of Englewood. He travels around with his boys, Baddest Niggaz In Chicago (B.N.I.C.). Their newest track, BNIC Run This, is just a stomp. It'll boost your swagger, and it will bob your head around.

Myspace
Soundclick

The Soundclick of the day is Ology's. He is a producer, whom makes smooth beats with video game elements to some of the beats.

Check out the blog, Beautiful Hustle. It's a good hip-hop blog worth your time and the time of you bookmarking it.

Q&A With Tobias Froberg

2006-03-18T11:06:00.000-06:00

Tobias Froberg iPod broke, so he was nice enough to answer some questions for yours truly.

Grandma's Basement: What sounds are going through your ears, and what albums are you looking forward to this?
Tobias Froberg: My friends laugh at me sometimes because I'm not aware of what is happening in the scene today. I listen to Paul Simon, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Beach Boys (don't miss their Sunflower album, its amazing), Neil Young, Nina Simone. Well as you probably can imagine I'm not the best person to answer such a question. But, there are a couple of bands and artists that I know and sometimes work with. And I really love their music. I'm talking about Ane Brun, Teitur, Jose Gonzalez. There's a Swedish trio called The Tiny, and their new album is great.

GB: Sweden is producing tons of great artists at the moment, how does this make you feel that your own country is succeeding so well?
Tobias: Because of Internet, because of the fact that the music scene is so international today, you are always one click away from your favorite artist or band. I don't really think of Swedish music as "Swedish music". But I understand what you mean. The water is cooking here in Sweden, things are happening. There's a lot of good music, but there's also a lot of bad music as well. I don't want to say I'm proud of Swedish music in general, because I'm not. I just think it's fun when things are going well for people I know. That makes me proud.

GB: Are there any artists or bands from Sweden that we don't know about yet that we should know about?
Tobias: There's a band called Antennas, they are very good. Another great pop band is PeterBjornandJohn. And, as I mentioned before, The Tiny. They are amazing.

GB: What inspired you to become the musician you are today?
Tobias: It's difficult to say. I have played in bands, and I have tried different kinds of music. I guess that everything that happens to you in some way inspired you in your music. Fucking hell, that was a boring answer. My iPod broke down the other week, and suddenly my focus for writing new songs were gone. I think I need to listen to music. Good music inspires me. My friends inspire me. Ane, Teitur, Jose.

GB: Are you planning on touring the USA for Somewhere In The City? Please say you're playing Chicago.
Tobias: As we are talking, my manager is closing a US deal for the new album. I don't know where and when things will happen. But I'd love to play in Chicago.

GB: How do you like touring?
Tobias: I love it. That is one of the reasons I record albums. I like traveling and put that together with playing music. Well, then you have everything you want.

GB: How often do you get noticed in Sweden?
Tobias: Not very often, not that I know of anyway. Sweden is a small country, people who are interested in music perhaps know me. But you know, that is nothing I think of really.

GB: Do you want to become huge or do you prefer being just another artist?
Tobias: Difficult question. I want people to like my music. I want to be able to record albums, tour, and make a good living out of it. That's the only answer I can ou you. I'm certainly not interested in being on celeb photos in a tabloid. That is not the reason I play music.

GB: Is there any artist you would dream to collaborate with?
Tobias: Teitur and I are writing songs together when we get the time. And me, Teitur, and Ane Brun are hoping to do a tour together. We have done concerts before and that is so cool. If you're thinking of huge stars, I think I would be terrified if I was to play together with Paul Simon, Neil Young, Levon Helm from the Band or anyone else. I don't want to ruin a good thing, you know.

GB: Explain to us why Somewhere In The City is different from For Elisabeth Wherever She Is.
Tobias: Elisabeth was recorded by me and my good friends Linus Larsson (known for producing or working with Anna Ternheim, Nicolai Dunger & Mercury Rev, The Concretes, Ed Harcourt, and others) in a short period of time. We recorded the songs and that was it. This time, I started recording some of the songs on my own in my apartment, under my bed actually. I knew what I wanted from these new songs and I was certainly not looking for perfection, but I really wanted to get the right feeling. For some songs, I think I did like 80-90 takes. It sounds awful, but I learned a lot. When I was ready, I brought it all to Linus' studio and we began with the overdubbings. But then again, some of the songs were recorded in that old Linus and Tobias kind of way. Press record and play! We are very satisfied with the result. I think it's a great album and I'm very proud of it. I really love Elisabeth as well, but you know how it is. Artists tend to prefer their latest work.

Thanks to Tobias for doing this for us. Check back at a previous post for some more info and MP3's.

The Red Campaign: What You Can Do Without Your Wallet

2006-03-16T11:04:00.000-06:00

The Red Campaign, the economic activism program that Bono started alongside with supporters Converse, Gap, Amarni, and American Express, that donates 1% of certain "red"-endorsed products to the fight against illnesses that disrupt, in firebombing fashion, progress in Africa. Now, giving only 1% of certain products surely does not seem all that spectacular, but it does add up considerably if you tall up the fact that a pair of kicks costs roughly $50, so take 1% of that and you get $5 going to straight to charity (no tackle on fees to subtract from it, so far) and brand new pair of kicks. American Express works with 1% of every purchase you make so that adds up even higher, and Armani and the Gap's products are pricey enough to throw weight behind endorsing the product.

I think the general complaint among people is that corporations run America, that people have no foothold or say in what happens on the hill. I got news for you bub- we control corporations. Corporations flat out cannot exist without our wallets springing opening and dumping on their counters while they dance around the maypole. This is exactly where we can make a difference. What we need to do is make it cool to help people. People set the news flavors cool to be put out, corporations just put them in the wrappers. So what needs to be done? For starters, contact the companies below asking them to put in their support for the Red Campaign. In your phone call or email simply ask them to throw their support into the campaign by donating certain products to be put under the Red Campaign and to put money behind advertising them with a link attached to the Red Campaign website. Simple as that. Its only 1% of the revenue of certain products- trust me, they can afford it. There are a bajillion companies that would be outstanding to get help from, but these companies are just a few that have a pulse on culture as a large. If you have any companies, small or big (in fact, a lot of smaller companies would be a lot more effective than a few big ones), contact us at Grandma's Basement or respond to this post and we can further the campaign. So once again, get a hold of these guys and spread the word to do so among everybody you know.

Abercrombie 1
Abercrombie 2
Apple
Apple 2
American Eagle
Reebok
Playstation
Nintendo
PacSun

On top of that I wish for everybody here to email the Red Campaign and persuade them to donate more than 1% of selected products. The percentage could certainly be higher and the amount of goods offered could be as well. But, keep in mind, for these changes to made the campaign needs to take off, so it is more important to both buy the goods as well as persuade other companies to pin the tail on the donkey with them. I would really want to get all the media outlets, from MTV to Wired to Urb to Vanity Fair to Teen Vogue, to get behind this as much as possible, but we'll start here for now. This is only the first post on the matter but we're going to be getting much more detailed and involved in our tactics on how to get these programs flying so stay tuned for sure on how to help.

Red Campaign

Remember to read up on the Red Campaign before you start committing to it.
Au Revoir!

Okay, Wake Up

2006-03-16T10:19:00.000-06:00

I am going to make this very clear- this government is completely fucked up. You know it, I know it. If Helen Keller was locked in a room with not a scratch of communication or brail in sight she would probably pick up on the vibes, too. From domestic spying (not "terrorist surveliance", domestic spying), ridicilous ports deals, with hypocritical reasons for doing so in tow, to a complete piss down followed by a people's elbow to any form of human rights abroad, I can't imagine what else it would take for the powers that be to at least say, "Listen, umm, I think that taking a dos-er on the constitution, and the minority holding on to it with dear life, might not be the best idea in the book." But, of course, politicians ring their hands and talk with complete asshole objectivity- "On one hand, yeah, electrocuting an innocent man who has never been given a chance to go on trial or knows where the fuck he is, how the fuck he got there, and why he can't feel his genetalia, that kind of stinks. On the other hand, I mean, it makes sense." What!?!?! Does anybody else find it completely sad and depressing that we have things like microwaves, DVDs, XBoxes, and Ferraris, but we still do something as completely prehistoric as war?

What anybody who reads this has to do is follow this link to the senator home page and either call (which is more recommended for at least that sends a clear message that if they can't pick up the phone because it's so fucking jammed, maybe people don't like the idea of the goverment knowing everything anybody has ever searched for on Google) or send an email, preferrably both, and tell everyone you know to do the same. Listen, this needs to be done because if we allow these Banana Splits to run around turning the world into Mad Max (I hope you've stocked up machine guns and Tina Turner wigs), then we're just flat out saying the hell with it, do whatever the fuck you want. Stop complaining about how "Bush is the devil" or whatever and act. Again here is the link. Go get 'em.

Once more, le link.

Lollapalooza Is Coming!

2006-03-15T16:27:00.000-06:00

Lollapalooza lineup will be announced tomorrow, Thursday the 16th of March! The Chicago music festival although was said to be mediocre last year, made a mammoth profit. If you're the head of a music festival, and you have lots of money, what would you do with the cash? How about get amazing acts. The New Pornographers, Iron & Wine, Sonic Youth, Thievery Corporation, and Blackalicious are confirmed acts from non-festival sources.The Red Hot Chili Peppers are also already confiremed from a non-festival source to headline multiple nights. Go ahead and take a pee before you read the rumored acts, because you'll surely pee your pants. The rumored acts are the following:

The Smashing Pumpkins
David Bowie
Wilco
The Dave Matthews Band
Uncle Tupelo
Pearl Jam
My Bloody Valentine
Sigur Ros
The Flaming Lips
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Explosions In The Sky
The Strokes
Tool
Morrisey
Radiohead
Hole
Sleater-Kinney
RJD2
The Crystal Method
The White Stripes
Wolf Parade
Andrew Bird
Nada Surf
Sage Francis
Blue Merle
DJ Peretz
and.....
The frickin Arcade Fire

I said goddamn. I mean sure Coachella was supposed to have some of these artists, but it makes more sense for some of the bands to play Chicago instead. Smashing Pumpkins are from Chicago. Wilco are from Chicago. Radiohead was rumored to be roaming around Chicago at this time. Tickets go on sale tomorrow as well. Let's keep our fingers crossed for this lineup (add more hip-hop. Common, Lupe, Kanye). Put the Pitchfork Music Festival on top of this and Chicago will be the happiest place on earth.

Q&A With El Chavo

2006-03-15T15:40:00.000-06:00

If you remember I recently did a post on El Chavo. Scroll down a few and its there. He took some time out to do a brief e-interview with us.

Grandma's Basement:What does El Chavo translate to, and how does this describe you?
El Chavo: El Chavo means "the kid" in Mexican. It was a hilarious T.V. show I watched some time ago.

GB: You are from Barcelona, which is a brand new spot for hip-hop to come out of. How did you come across hip-hop, and which specific album made you think to yourself, "This is what I want to do."?
El: I used to be more into Ska, reggae, but then i got a copy of Beastie Boys' Check Your Head, I started investigating about hip hop, then came De La Soul ATCQ, J5...

GB: How long have you been making beats, more specifically worthwhile beats?
El: Not more than 2 years.

GB: What MC would you die for to rhyme over you beats?
El: EDAN

GB: What kind of mechanisim do you use to get MC's to rap for you? Do you be polite and let them breathe, or are you a bulldog that doesn't give up until you get an answer?
El: Luckily I'm a friend of some rappers already (Cyne, The Botanica del Jibaro Crew, Psyche Origami....), I just tell them about my new beats and they decide if they wanna rap. The other collabs I got them from justing posting a new track on Myspace.

GB: When an MC spits for you, do you write the lyrics for them, or do they put the pen to the paper?
El: They have 100% freedom.

GB: Have you ever been involved with ghostwriting?
El: Nope

GB: If you could knock any artist from the mainstream off the map, who would it be and why?
El: Just the ones I started to listening hip-hop with.

GB: Hip-hop from foreign countries is starting to slitther around in America. You have the grime scene in the U.K., you have M.I.A., and then of course you have huge artists like Sean Paul from Jamaica. Why do you think it took the US a while to get hooked on this?
El: I think it's cultural, in the States most of the bands do it for money, in Europe and other places hip-hop is still a form of expressing your thoughts, fighting the system...

GB: Will we ever see you put on the headphones and start rappping?
El: No!

GB: Do you have an album in the works for us?
El: Yes yes, I'll keep you posted.

The April Skies

2006-03-14T17:55:00.000-06:00

The April Skies are a Norweigian band. They play 80's rock and 90's alternative rock. Lots of Brit-Pop elements are active as well. Some songs they are trying to be like The Stone Roses or The Clash (Three Minute Singles) while others they'll sneakily take a melody for their chorus from AC/DC (Rise and Rise Again). Definitely a band to dance to at 11 at night in your pajamas to.

Three Minute Singles
Rise and Rise Again

Japanese Steel!

2006-03-14T13:53:00.000-06:00

One more little tid bit about Japanese ultimate power for you in sunshine of land of power beat you with skill, Yasunori Mitsuda is going to be part of the PLAY! concert series in Chicago on May 27th. For anybody not in the know, Yasunori is the composer of such AMAZING soundtracks as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and the Xenogears. Here's a link to check out the Chrono Cross soundtrack and a link to his personal site. Ae revoir!

Najubes- The Japanese Hip-Hop Obsession Continues!

2006-03-14T13:13:00.001-06:00

Why are Japanese people so freaking cool? Just like love and music, I'm sure a scientist could put out the proper genetic code for exactly why but, just like love and music, it just makes it more mysterious and wonderful than ever before (note: this is coming from a young padawan otaku so naturally anything neon and indecipherable I will obsess over).

So if you combine my love of all things Japanese plus my love of all things hip-hop plus Anime tunes plus jazz music, what do you get? Najubes, a Japanese hip-hop producer who is the head force of the Samurai Champloo soundtrack. If you are a fan of anything Wu-Tang, produced by Rza or not, you will adore this guy. If you are a fan of God and really want to hear what it sounds like when he enters the room, this your chance. If you're an aetheist, this might prove your point; no way anything could be bigger or better than this. His music is fantastically hip and hynotic, invigorating and relaxing, and completely brilliant. The soundtrack to Champloo must be heard (follow the links on this blog), either on their own or alongside with the show, which can be seen on weekdays (tonight! Pinto now with me!) at 1 A.M, so make sure you check out the latest adventures of Fuu, Jin, and Mugen.

Here's a link to Najubes spot on Myspace. Enjoy and spread the news!

El Chavo

2006-03-13T17:17:00.000-06:00

(I couldn't find a good picture of El Chavo, sorry.) El Chavo is a hip-hop producer. He does instrumentals by himself and only includes vocals if a featuring guest is included. He is from Barcelona. He is hoping that MC's will hear his work and do collaborations with him. He is going to release his first 12" soon off of Break Bread Projects.

That Dope feat. Poesh Wonder MP3
Galaxy MP3

You can download his mixtape Rather Blind Than Deaf for free on his site. Click Here for it in MP3 format.

I Read The News Today, Oh Boy

2006-03-13T12:19:00.000-06:00

I'm Explaining A Few Things By Pueblo Neruda

You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs?
and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?
and the rain repeatedly spattering
its words and drilling them full
of apertures and birds?
I'll tell you all the news.

I lived in a suburb,
a suburb of Madrid, with bells,
and clocks, and trees.

From there you could look out
over Castille's dry face:
a leather ocean.
My house was called
the house of flowers, because in every cranny
geraniums burst: it was
a good-looking house
with its dogs and children.
Rememeber, Raul?
Eh, Rafel? Federico, do you remeber
from under the ground
my balconies on which
the light of June drowned flowers in your mouth?
Brother, my brother~
Everything
loud with big voices, the salt of merchandises,
pile-ups of palpitating bread,
the stalls of my suburb of Arguelles with its statue
like a drained inkwell in a swirl of hake:
oil flowed into spoons,
a deep baying
of feet and hands swelled in the streets,
metres, litres, the sharp
measure of life,
stacked-up fish,
the texture of roofs with a cold sun in which
the weather vane falters,
the fine, frenzies ivory of potatoes,
wave on wave of tomatoes rolling down the sea.

And one morning all that burning,
one morning the bonfires
leapt out of the earth
devouring human beings-
and from then on fire,
gunpowder from then on,
and from then on blood.
Bandits with planes and Moors,
bandits with finger-rings and duchesses,
bandits with black friars spattering blessings
came through the sky to kill children
and the blood of the children ran through the streets
without fuss, like children's blood.

Jackals that the jackals would despise,
stones that the dry thistle would bite on and spit out,
vipers that the vipers would abominate!

Face to face with you I have seen the blood
of Spain tower like a tide
to drown you in one wave
of pride and knives!

Treacherous generals:
see my dead house, look at broken Spain:
from every house burning metal flows instead of flowers,
from every socket of Spain, Spain emerges
and from every dead child a rifle with eyes,
and from every crime bullets are born which will one day find
the bull's eye of your hearts.

And you'll ask: why doesn't his poetry speak of dreams and leaves
and the great volcanoes of his native land?

Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood in the streets!- END

Congratulations to those who finished the poem! My post was deleted so I just put up a piece by one of my favorite poets, Pueblo Neruda. Here's the trophy to those who finished or zoomed straight to the bottom- "Failure to Launch" was the #1 movie in the country and over 90 people were killed in Iraq. The former was the main headline of the news, the latter was stuffed into "Other News", followed by the day's sports scores. I am patronizing right now but I hope to God you care enough to tell another human being. Peachy Mondays, music tomorrow!

The Like Young

2006-03-12T14:00:00.000-06:00

The Like Young are a married couple made of Amanda and Joe Ziemba. The band bred their music in Chicago. They make alternative pop fueled tunes. They're previous albums had loads of thumbs-up across the map. Their upcoming release, Last Secrets, will be released on May 9th, off of Polyvinyl Record Co. Snatch these tracks off Last Secrets.

Dead Eyes MP3
For Money Or Love MP3

Sabine & Me (Video) (This is off So Serious)

Also, you can download their previous albums in full for free on their site. Click here

And for anybody interested, tour dates:

3/25/06-Beat Kitchen
5/06/06-The Hideout

Samurai Champloo

2006-03-12T13:41:00.000-06:00

I've found a total of four Samurai Champloo soundtracks!! Also, while I stayed at my brothers dorm for the weekend, I discovered he had three katanas now in his possession. I was pretty much attached to each and everyone. So it was only fitting that I found these soundtracks. I would also like to say that Outkast downright stole the theme song of Samurai Champloo for their new song "Rats and Roaches".

Samurai Champloo Soundtracks

(Note: The files were uploaded on Rapidshare which has rules. The rule is that you can only download one album per hour basically. So it'll take you an afternoon to finish up.)

Lucky Soul

2006-03-11T12:55:00.000-06:00

Lucky Soul are based around five Greenwich musicians. The charming and lovable frontgirl, Ali Howard, has such an irrestible voice. To me at least, she sounds like Sandy from Grease. The main songwriter and lead guitarist and Glasgow based, Andrew Laidlaw, has the knack for writing a phenomenal pop mania song. These songs sound like such great 50's and 60's little pop capsules. When you listen to it, you can see John Travolta saying "Saannnndyyy!". Lucky Soul are a pop android not to be reckoned with.

Lips Are Unhappy MP3
Give Me Love MP3

The Strokes @ Radio 1

2006-03-09T19:34:00.000-06:00

The Strokes (Julian Casablancas) did a session with Zane Lowe with Radio 1 on Wednesday March 8th. I thought I'd post it for some people.

Setlist:

Interview Pt. 1
You Only Live Once (Alternate Version)
Interview Pt. 2
Heart In A Cage
Interview Pt. 3
Reptilia
Interview Pt. 4
Life's A Gas (Ramones Cover)

Download Session

On the upcoming "Heart In A Cage" single, there is a demo titled "I'll Try Anything Once". The alternate version of "You Only Live Once" in the Radio 1 session is just a the same song as the album version, but with different lyrics and vocal approaches. Julian said before in an interview that the first version of "You Only Live Once" was just him on piano with different lyrics, and when he explained some of the lyrics the phrase, I'll try anything once, was included. So I think the demo on "Heart In A Cage" will be cool. Also the "Life's A Gas" is the Ramones cover that they've been featuring in their live set. And the interviews are just Julian Casablancas, not any other members.

Naimi

2006-03-09T18:09:00.000-06:00

Yet another artist I know principally diddy-squat about. I know her alias is Naimi and she's another fantastic production from the land of chocolate. She has a new album coming out in March titled Det ar jag som bestammer inte du. In English it's translated to To Whom It May Concern. Very interesting music to listen to.

Miss You MP3
Pa latsas MP3

The Impossible Shapes

2006-03-09T17:20:00.000-06:00

I Guess I'm Floating beat me to the punch with this band. I was on my way to post about them, and so I'm finishing up my daily looks, and what do you know, they have already posted on The Impossible Shapes. So any readers of IGIF, sorry for the repeat of info, but I just really wanted to post about them. Well for any first-comers, The Impossible Shapes are a group of guys from Bloomington Indiana, which is only a few steps away from my current living space, Chesterton Indiana. They are one of many who are pulling and clawing the Bob Dylan-esque lo-fi folk style. They're music has a rather refreshing feeling to it. There latest album, Hums (released March 7th), is another addition to their trophey cabinet.

Our Love Lives MP3
Florida Silver Springs MP3

Also, the members of the Shapes have many side projects. One of them being The Coke Dares. I still can't tell if these songs are jokes or for real. Regardless, they are just rocking songs.

Rocking All The Time MP3

Track A Tiger

2006-03-07T17:29:00.000-06:00

Track A Tiger are a phenomenal Chicago band. They were started by Jim Vallet in 2003. It was origianlly meant to be a solo project. He started the poor man's way with 4-track recording, then upgraded to 16-track and began recording some sound. He had musicians back him up for recording. He then thought it was time to put the last chapter on the album and have the album be mixed. After the mixing process, Jim thought it just wasn't right. He kept working on it, by adding lyrics and adding different parts to songs. Basically just putting some icing on the cake. Then he had Pat Stolley mix and master the album. It was right this time around. The process ended up producing the 2006 released, Woke up early the day i died. Get this, on their website you can listen to the whole album for...let me finish...FREE. It's great by my standards. Since I live fashionably close to them, I'm going to see if they can hook us up with a interview.

Glad To Be Scattered MP3
Sound As Ever MP3

Prince: The Most Under-Spoken Of Fantastic-Ness?

2006-03-07T10:39:00.000-06:00

Prince is the real deal. This needs to be said as frequently and loudly as humanly possible by everyone on the planet. Don't believe me? Go to listen to Purple Rain, 1999, Sign O'The Times, or any of the other 5000 records Prince has made (don't forget about the Batman soundtrack!). For the most part everybody knows Prince's ruleness to be fact; the only people you'll find who don't like Prince are pretty easy to spot: they'll be using the words faggot and gay at a medium pace and with a consistency that levels with the words "the" and "and", have heavily gelled hair with a flip in front, and an outfit cordially designed by the good folks from Pac Sun, accessories consisting of either a silver or bead necklace ala quasi surfer wear. But anybody who listens to music (or has hormones) will tell you Prince is the man.

Then why is Prince so hard to find on greatest ever lists? He'll definitely make appearances here and there, but not nearly as much as he should. Let me make this clear: Prince is at least for sure as good as Zeppelin and the Ramones, both in songs, guitar, and albums. Yet these two will ALWAYS beat out Prince on every list ever. I love me some Ramones and Zep (two of my favs ever) but COME ON! Don't think Prince is as good as guitarist as Page? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLdVkoKNToE&search=prince

Interesting. Now, my definition of a great guitarist is by no means technicality. A whole lot of wener-wener-reer! doesn't make you amazing. To me that's the same thing as special effects in a movie: wow for a little bit but then you get used to them, then bored, then they just get in the way, then ruin the movie. Same goes for music, only it takes me only about 30 seconds to know the deal. A great guitarist is someone who bleeds their heart into their instrument. Actually that's what a musician is. That's what makes Pete Townsend such a f'ing great guitarist, as well as the Edge, as well as Jimmy Page and Hendrix. And, dun dun da dah, Prince. He's one of the greats beyond greats, a belonger to the cathedral of amaziness that only so many get to.

Now, Prince is, like I said, given credit. He was inducted into the Rock N'Roll Hall of Fame, made Rolling Stones greatest Rock Stars list, and can found on several best of lists. But there just isn't enough of it. I hereby declare that all motel and hotel rooms be stocked with a copy of Purple Rain, conveniently placed next to the Bible (I actually would suggest putting it on top of. I'll tell you a secret: Purple Rain is the real Bible, and Prince is Jesus). The Pledge of Allegiance be changed to Pussy Control. Essays in school about Rasberry Beret. Forget those cyber silver leather space suits with the V across it we are all apparently going to wear in the future. I suggest all purple ass-less chaps. Pretty much what I'm saying is can someone get me tickets to the Prince tour this summer?

Beirut

2006-03-06T18:10:00.000-06:00

Beirut is based behind 19 year old NYC songwriter Zach Condron. The music is just pure with nice surroundings of horns and such. With Zach almost playing a folk based guitar style. His first proper LP, Gulag Orkestar, will be released in April by BA DA BING! Records. I learned of this band from Gorilla vs. Bear, so props to them.

Postcards From Italy MP3

Billie The Vision and The Dancers

2006-03-06T15:59:00.000-06:00

I'm sorry but I don't know much on Billie The Vision and The Dancers. All I know is that this track is pretty great.

I'm Pablo MP3

Prince!

2006-03-05T21:47:00.000-06:00

3121 has leaked and it's making me smile and air guitar and fist pump. It has some definite mega songs on here. Here's some show and proof.

Lolita MP3

Andre 3000

2006-03-05T18:44:00.000-06:00

Everyone's favorite vegan, Andre 3000, is still being a cool dude. He is now making an animation series with Cartoon Network titled Class Of 3000. It is going to be a cartoon with kids looking up to the almighty Sunny Bridges, who Dre supplies the voice for. Then aspects of his diversified community Dre grew up with will be involved. Andre is always just so cool. I find out he reads Harry Potter. I quickly fall in love with almost all of his music. Now he's reached the height of coolness, with his own cartoon. He says that guest apperances will hopefully be plentiful. I can see many people wanting to be on this show, as does Andre himself. This baby is going to be watched religiously. Now all he needs to do is release the soundtrack and movie for Idlewild.

Tobias Froberg

2006-03-04T12:12:00.000-06:00

Tobias Froberg is an amazing singer/songwriter bred from Sweden. He makes just fabulous warm acoustic music. His album For Elisabeth Wherever She Is was nominated for a 2005 Swedish Grammy award. His next release titled Somewhere In The City is going to have a spring 2006 release date. You can stream four new songs off the upcoming album off his myspace.

Grace MP3
So I MP3

The Tamborines

2006-03-04T11:27:00.000-06:00

The Tamborines are a band from West London. They are all originally from Brazil though. They just have demos out so far. They sound like the all of the 90's bands who you have ever heard. Blur, Foo Fighters, a little Oasis. They sound a lot like Jesus and The Mary Chain too. Overall some nice sounds.

The Great Division MP3
What Took You So Long MP3

Denizen Kane

2006-03-03T20:45:00.000-06:00

Denizen Kane is an Asian rapper from Chicago who now lives in Oakland. He might play guitar, but I'm not sure, but some of his tracks have guitars in them. But then there are pictures of a guy called Denizen Kane playing guitar but it only slightly looks like the rapper. But his music is pretty top-notch. He's part of the rap group, Typical Cats and also the rap group I Was Born With Two Tongues. He is a a lyrically based rapper with some fine music in the backround as his battery power. Some tracks he'll be mimicking the Strokes or sometimes he'll be a detective show theme song. His album Tree City Legends was released in 2002, and it's a magnificent album. He had a follow-up album titled Tree City Legends Vol.2: My Bootleg Life which was released in December 2005. I contacted his record label , Galapagos4 , and they could possibly set an interview up with him for us. So look out for it.

Only Sleeping MP3
Early Burn MP3

Black People Suck

2006-03-02T16:55:00.000-06:00

That's what seems to be going through the minds of the 'indie' band that no one knows about called the Hawthorne Heights. The Hawthorne Heights sent out a message to fans telling them to make sure they were on top of the Billboard 200 by the end of the week. Their main competitor, Ne-Yo, is considered you're worst nightmare. They call him an over the top mainstream media coverage freak. What?!!?! These guys are exclusively on TRL. They say they want ROCK music to prevail over urban music. Translator: Bust out the confederacy flags. They also state in the message that they want their independant record label, Victory Records, to destroy the major labels. They say this would change history and alter the minds of millions. No it wouldn't. People buying the Hawthorne Heights album are currently picking up their new shirt from Hot Topic. They call their statement a 'battle cry' for white republicans to officialy take down black people and their over the top culture.
Hawthorne Heights also sent another message. This time they have strategies. They are telling all of their fans to put all their albums in the front racks and take some and put them in sections of the store where it isn't located. They even told their fans to sneak into the overstock bin and take extra albums and put them all over the store. Then it gets better. They ordered their fans to take multiple Ne-Yo's albums and put them where people can't find them. (Note: Check the washers and dryers, and also one fan stupidly hid 18 copies behind the 65" Plasma.) Basically they are recruiting ninjas to 'accidently' round-house kick Ne-Yo fans in the face. What person in their right mind is thinking, "You know what, these guys are right." So everyone buy a copy of In My Own Words by Ne-Yo.

Here's the full text of the letters.

Sondre Lerche

2006-03-01T21:38:00.000-06:00

I'm busy. I'll do it later. C'monnnn! That seems to be my replies to doing stuff at the moment. I mean seriously, I have some new Sondre Lerche to listen to.

Everyone's Rooting For You MP3
You Sure Look Swell MP3

In "You Sure Look Swell" he sounds like Chris Martin at times. From first listen, it might be the album of the year so far.

You'll Be Screaming Like A White Girl

2006-03-01T19:17:00.000-06:00

Prince's new single "Black Sweat" is growing so stupidly fast. I can't stop listening to it. It only gets better and better each time. "When I count to three you'll be screaming like a white girl," is just pure ulimate. At first I didn't like the screeching synth, now it sounds perfect. I was watching BET and they played the video two or three times within an hour. Then the next day is going again. So that's good. I've never actually heard the first single, that was a spanish ballad. But I did watch the SNL performance, and he played another new track called "Fury" and it was pretty splendid. If you haven't seen the set yet, Prince was shredding like a mad-man. But someone on a Prince fan site said he was at a listening party for 3121 and the guitar was more a backround instrument in the studio version. Interesting. Well the point is "Black Sweat" is not a song anymore, but more of a hobby.

Black Sweat MP3

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2006-02-28T21:51:00.000-06:00

Show Your Bones has leaked about 92%. "The Sweets" goes about 15 sec. and then cuts off, but other than that, its there. I'm not going to listen to it, because of that little fault. I want to listen to the full thing, complete and perfect. So I picked some random track for MP3 purposes.

Phenomena MP3

For people who have listened to it, please tell me how it is.

The Knife

2006-02-28T19:25:00.000-06:00

The Knife's Silent Shout gets my honor as the album of February, and the whole year in that matter (so far). The lyrics don't make sense at times, but other times it's very political and quite amazing. For a sample of the lyricism, here's a chilling line from "Forest Families", "They said we had a communist in the family// I had to wear a mask." The album atmosphere is so dreamy and very hipnotic. Almost at times getting that Kid A vibe. There are actually tracks on here that strangely remind me of M.I.A. But if she messed with her vocal chords a bit and the beats were more electronic based (I can actually see M.I.A. making a similar album). The point is this album is amazing, and deserves that leftover Best Buy giftcard from Christmas (It actually doesn't have a release date ready for the States).

Forest Families MP3
The Captain MP3

HIGH FIVE!

2006-02-27T20:08:00.000-06:00

Do I need to say anything?

Crackspot MP3
The Champ MP3

Our boys at Spine hooked us up real good

Nagisa Yoko

2006-02-27T19:46:00.000-06:00

Nagisa Yoko is a japanese artist. She makes really odd electronic/pop songs. They seem obnoxious, but quickly grown on you and become extremely enjoyable. She does loads of cool stuff. For example, she threw a karokee party for homeless communities with her as the main guest. She has an entourage called the Erotic Trois. She is coming out with a new album,Hey You!, on March 22.

Zeni Zeni MP3

Steve Burns

2006-02-26T15:17:00.000-06:00

Steve Burns is the guy from Blues Clues. He went from Nick Jr. hero to now almost looking like Fab. The guy actually makes quality tunes. They have a little touch of secretary rock to them, but they still get the job done successfully.

Maintain MP3

Dudley Perkins

2006-02-26T14:41:00.000-06:00

Bring the funk my brother! He is on the magnificent Stones Throw records. His upcoming album Expressions is being produced by Madlib. This is guranteed ultimate-mega.

Funky Dudley MP3