The Best 70 Albums of 2010 < PopMatters. I covered No. 20, Das Racist’s Sit Down, Man.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Das Racist’
April 13th, 2010 - 1:28 am § in True/Slant
Free the Music: Das Racist
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[...]
November 17th, 2009 - 1:53 am § in True/Slant
The (Most) Memorable Singles of 2009
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 lis[...]
November 2nd, 2009 - 1:24 am § in True/Slant
The role of music journalism, or why does everyone want to kill hip-hop?
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[...]