San Francisco outfit Sonny & the Sunsets sound like they’re from San Francisco. But like their Frisco contemporaries, Girls, their music doesn’t feel like it’s located in any particular time at all. Some songs are hazy surf-pop, and others border on doo-wop. Almost all of them are tinged with a kind of worldly sadness, and [...]
I know what you’re thinking. This is some bubblegum, radio-friendly, autotune bullshit. Can’t really argue with you there. But fuck, this is catchy. “Your Love” wasn’t really doing it for me, but if Nicki is trying to make looping up ’80s shit a trademark, “Video Killed the Radio Star” is a good place to start. [...]
A symbol is a funny thing. Especially when that symbol is a human being. From everything I know, JFK meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Iconic imagery can transform a group of people into a concept or an idea, or a president and his family into rockstars. If you’ve [...]
This song is a movement in itself already. I swear I’ve seen like thirty folks throw it up on Facebook in ten days or so it’s been out. It’s funny though. When songs like this drop, I tend to feel like it’s poetic justice. Cee-Lo is one of those cats that’s written a few dozen [...]
First off, I gotta thank Alan for putting me up on The Hood Internet. I was snoozing pretty hard, but luckily Alan had folks juiced off the Drizzy/Miike Snow mashup this weekend, so I got my first proper introduction. Also known as DJs Aaron Brink and Steve Reidell, The Hood Internet specializes in the art [...]
“They say this is the place stars are born They say this is the place legends are made They say this is the place where angels come again They say that this is the place where it all can happen for you…” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download: Mos Def – “California”
When we look back on our era in American history, I think most of us will say we lived in a pretty strange time. I’m not one to judge, and I know these drugs help some people, but damn. With all the luxuries we enjoy, and the advances of modern society, people still just don’t [...]
For the kids like myself that grew up in ’90s, I think most of us remember an era when MTV was the purveyor of all things cool. Beavis & Butthead and Daria aired daily, The Real World wasn’t scripted yet and alternative, electronica, and hip-hop music inspired some of the dopest music videos of all [...]
First off, can we just take a minute to consider the fucking lineup on this track? Yeezy, Hov, Rozay and Nicki would be crazy already. But guest vocals from Bon Iver and Uncle Charlie? Fresh off the news that he and Jay are set to drop a five-track album soon, Ye dropped off the first [...]
Good songs come from a lot of different places. I remember last month at the Foreign Exchange show at Yoshi’s SF, Phonte spoke on the all-too-common, and frankly unnecessary debate between “mainstream” and “indie” fans. The Foreign Exchange proceeded to hit us with the musically inclined, neo-soul versions of “Turn My Swag On” and “Stanky [...]
Bill Murray is one of those few people in show business that seem to have achieved the impossible. Instead of letting the fame and the Hollywood scene get the best of him, Murray has remained reclusive and, from what we can tell, almost completely unfazed by the craziness that inevitably comes along with the lifestyle. [...]
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
We all need those jams to celebrate to. As celebratory anthems go, “Sometimes” held it down tough. And then there was the video. Pretty safe to say they hit a home run on that one. So what better way to follow up an infectious retro synth slap, than by doing it again. “Holidays” is the [...]
By Richard ‘Skip’ Bronson About 3.5 million US residents (about 1% of the population), including 1.35 million children, have been homeless for a significant period of time. Over 37,000 homeless individuals (including 16,000 children) stay in shelters in New York every night. This information was gathered by the Urban Institute, but actual numbers might be [...]
