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The Best 70 Albums of 2010 < PopMatters

December 13, 2010 / Leave a Comment

The Best 70 Albums of 2010 < PopMatters. I covered No. 20, Das Racist’s Sit Down, Man.

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Posted in: Freelance Work Tagged: Best 70 Albums of 2010, Das Racist, music, PopMatters

Free the Music: Das Racist

April 13, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Free the Music is a guide to new albums, EPs and songs that are available for free online. Today’s drop is: Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude. In today’s everyones-a-blogger, link economy online community, many an Internet scribe would be content with where Brooklyn’s Das Racist was at the end of 2009. A “year as … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Billy Joel, Brooklyn, Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, Das Racist, Himanshu Suri, hip-hop, meme, rap, UPS, Victor Vazquez, Who's That? Brooown!

The Music of The Super Bowl

February 7, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Justin Timberlake ruined the Super Bowl halftime show. And I’m not just referring to the infamous Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show – that being the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” incident. That half-second of “indecent exposure” has resulted in a slew of kinda bland halftime shows that pander to the baby boomer generation and hardly reflect the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Boost Mobile, Bud Light, CBS, Charles Barkley, Chicago Bears, Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, Das Racist, Grizzly Bear, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Lombardi trophy, New Orleans Saints, NFL, Pete Townshend, Stevie Wonder, Super Bowl, Super Bowl halftime show, Super Bowl Shuffle, T-Pain, Taco Bell, The Arcade Fire, The Who, Tracy Morgan, Two Weeks, Wake Up, wardrobe malfunction

The (Most) Memorable Singles of 2009

November 17, 2009 / Leave a Comment

I started writing here at True/Slant with a little piece that questioned the nature and purpose of year-end-lists. Who’s an authority on anything? Isn’t it all arbitrary? True, but, as I mentioned, it’s a bit fun to do. So, though we’re not even into December, I present a list of five memorable singles from the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Animal Collective, Christian Bale, Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, Danger! High Voltage, Das Racist, Electric Six, Future Of The Left, Grizzly Bear, Hey Ya!, I Kissed A Girl, Merriweather Post Pavillion, music, My Girls, Pitchfork, Pop music, R U Professional? (4 Xtian), The Hope That House Built, The Mae Shi, Travels With Myself And Another, Two Weeks, Veckatimest, Wallpaper, year end lists

The role of music journalism, or why does everyone want to kill hip-hop?

November 2, 2009 / Leave a Comment

The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones recently caught flack for a piece titled “Wrapping Up.” Frere-Jones began the joint review of Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 and Freddie Gibbs’ Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik with a pretty heady assertion: That hip-hop – gasp – is dead! If I had to pick a year for hip-hop’s demise, though, I would choose 2009, … [Read more…]

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