I’m usually down to geek out over anything 2NE1 end up associated with – have you heard “Scream?” Doing a fist pump right now – but man this song they did with Japanese hip-hop outfit M-Flo seems like a real waste of talent. 2NE1 don’t do any of the things that make them such an…
It’s not uncalled for a musician to show why they are good, why they matter, via a remix. Most of the time, though, the remix serves a purely marketable function – it keeps the wheels of the hype machine rolling while allowing two artists to stay relevant in a media sphere prone to tossing acts…
The real hook with Heavenstamp’s “Decadence” has very little to do with the original song itself. The band, now down a bassist after last week, sound fine on this track from their forthcoming March release. “Decadence” doesn’t sniff last year’s excellent “Morning Glow,” the warmth of that song shuffled out in favor of something sorta…
I’ve been thinking a lot about Love And Hates recently, mostly whether I want to write a review of their debut album despite the fact it came out the first week of December. It certainly isn’t a timely album, but it’s one of the few Japanese releases in recent memory that really divides people, some…
Here’s a human interest story to round out the nightly news…Figaro The Kid operates out of South Carolina, likes cats a lot (see: above picture) and is “just a poor college kid.” So what brings him to our attention, besides the lovely cat in the above picture? Dude has done three remixes of HNC songs,…