For as much as I love hip-hop, I'm pretty damn specific about what I like. Maybe someday I'll write a post trying to pin down the sounds and rhymes that make an artist appeal to me, but that time isn't now. Moral of the story is, XV is killing it for me, and I wish I had discovered him sooner.
XV – SmallVille (Produced by J. Cole)
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I try to make a point of not doing exactly what I'm about to do. I just listened to the new Hezekiah Jones album for the first time, and it kind of destroyed me. I'm sitting here pretty sick in a freezing basement and it hit every right note an album could possibly hit. So I'm going against my Blogger Code and writing about music I've only listened to one time.
Hezekiah Jones – Mind Malaise
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I realize this is about 1,245 years old in blog years, but I don't care. I'm just starting to get into Toro Y Moi's chill electro-pop (I refuse to use the word "chill-wave". Oh shit, I just did), and the video for "Low Shoulder" is appropriately weird and campy for my odd aesthetic sensibilities.
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The maestro Reid Anderson is a jazz bassist and composer. He may be best know for his work with the trio, The Bad Plus, however, his solo work is nothing short of inspired and refreshing.
His 1997 quartet release, Dirty Showtunes, is one of my favorite contemporary jazz records and is a breath of fresh air. Upon hearing this album I felt that same way I did when I heard Thelonious Monk play for the first time. The style was immediately defined and it took no longer than a minute to know that I could spend my life with this music and never grow tired of its sound.
Reid Anderson: Not Sentimental
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Another day, another installment of Scenes & Songs. This feature is intended to examine movies that involve significant musical subject content and/or distinct soundtracks, or maybe even just an excellent song for a specific scene.
Today's pick is one the best films of 2010, The Social Network, and the music of its opening scene, "Ball and Biscuit" by the White Stripes.
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The Steelwells are a band that I was recently introduced to with pop sensibility, visual interest, and an intangible nostalgic vibe that I am really enjoying right now.
Read on and check out their electronic press kit as well as the music video for their tune, Of Our Fabled Little Rabbits.
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Today we are presenting Scenes & Songs, a feature at Those Who Dig that looks at the intersection of music and film. Although we have already begun sharing our love of great music videos with you, this feature takes that further. It is intended to examine movies that involve significant musical subject content and/or distinct soundtracks, or maybe even just an excellent song for a specific scene.
Today's pick is the 1988 classic Beetlejuice alongside the music of Harry Belafonte.
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Left Boy clearly knows the way to my heart. He was already fast becoming one of my favorite new MC/producers, and then he sent me "NIGHT". Dude samples Buena Vista Social Club. Swag!
Left Boy – NIGHT
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The Steelwells are a band that I was recently hipped to by means of a publicist email directed at TWD. Initially it was their inventive music videos that got me paying attention, but the music held me there.
Read on and check out the refreshing video for The Steelwells song, El Capitan.
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Lubec is a band from Richmond, Virginia. Their brand new EP Nothing is Enough! is an exciting debut, though perhaps indeed not enough for those who dig catchy pop melodies mixed with loud fuzzy rock.
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