Why Do You Run a Music Blog?

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

I had a lot of fun last night playing with Boy Eats Drum Machine at the Wonder Ballroom, my first bass outing in a while. Dat’r, The Xploding Boys and Caves were the other bands on the bill reinterpreting classic songs from The Cure and Talking Heads. Dat’r re-imagining music from Talking Heads’ Remain In [...]

Bonde do Role, Gasolina feat The 87 Stick Up Kids and Micah James

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Bonde Do Role
My pal in L.A. the producer known as Troublemaker [surely in 2008 that should be TRBLMKR, no?] has dropped a new track in the Moose inbox. Brazilian outfit, Bonde Do Role originally produced by Diplo, have their song rapped over and remixed by The 87 Stick Up Kids and Micah James and then [...]

the roots new cd rising down is out now

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Along with the new Santogold album that was released yesterday, The Roots dropped ‘Rising Down’ and it is pretty awesome. Much harder, tighter and stripped down than previous albums ‘Rising Down’ has the band delivering some angry and scorching lyrics - everyone in this camp is pissed apparently…
Watch the Ric Cordero directed video of 75 [...]