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The Best Albums of 2009

December 14, 2009 / Leave a Comment

The new year is almost here, and with it comes a maelstrom of “End of the Year Lists.” Here on Ex-Spectator, I’ll be rolling out a few “End of the Year”/”End of the Decade” lists. Today’s list: The Best Albums of 2009. As I’ve mentioned previously, there are a lot of pitfalls for “best of” … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Animal Collective, Attention Deficit, best albums of 2009, Bitte Orca, Brand New, Brandeis University, Bromst, Chums, Curse Your Branches, Daisy, Dan Deacon, Dananananaykroyd, David Bazan, Deastro, Dirty Projectors, electronica, emo, Family, Fuck Buttons, Future Of The Left, Grizzly Bear, Harlem Shakes, Hey Everyone, hip-hop, Hospice, indie, Japandroids, Jeremy Enigk, Jewellery, Merriweather Post Pavillion, Micachu & The Shapes, Mika Miko, Moondagger, music, Never Better, New Leaves, OK Bear, Owen, P.O.S., Phoenix, Post-Nothing, punk, R&B, rock, Say Anything, See Mystery Lights, Tarot Sport, Technicolor Health, The Antlers, The xx, These Four Walls, Think About Life, Travels With Myself And Another, Veckatimest, Wale, We Be Xuxa, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, YACHT

Wale, Black Star and the Zunguzung Meme

November 10, 2009 / Leave a Comment

There’s something so familiar about Wale’s “TV in the Radio” that it didn’t strike me until just now, late in the evening when I should be fast asleep. Yes, the song is catchy as all else, but seems so grounded in a historical sense of hip-hop. Something fresh, yet something experienced. It hit me after … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Attention Deficit, Black Star, Definition, hip-hop, MIT, music, reggae, TV in the Radio, Wale, Wayne Marshall, Wayne&Wax, Yellowman, Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

Wale – "TV in the Radio"

November 9, 2009 / Leave a Comment

I mentioned Wale as a saving grace in hip-hop when I critiqued the “death” of hip-hop. Well, tomorrow the D.C.-Metro area rapper will drop his official debut album, Attention Deficit. So, what’s the word on the album? The New York Times‘s Jon Pareles gave the album a pretty good once over, but closed out with … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Attention Deficit, Back to the Feature, Clipse, D.C., David Sitek, hip-hop, Jon Pareles, music, The Mixtape About Nothing, The New York Times, TV in the Radio, TV On The Radio, Wale

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