100 Essential Male Performances

Also, I almost forgot. Make sure you check out the 100 Essential Male Performances feature at PopMatters. Some fantastic stuff and I've also got a few entries.

A Host of Fun Crap

I've got a bunch of new stuff to check out. First and foremost, this is going to be hot:


Popmatters celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Warp



There's one here on the new greatest hits of Blur



The Soul Jazz compilation Fly Girls cover females in hip-hop.



Alva Noto's second in the Xerrox series



Sumsumu Yokota's latest album sounds like 4AD circa 1986 (not necessarilly a bad thing)

RIP Walter Cronkite

Disco All But Demolished

Over at PopMatters, I've got a brief entry on one of the blogs celebrating disco's vitality 30 years post Chicago's disco demolition night. I tried to stick to things that would mostly fit a technical definition of Disco (or House, as it is now known) rather than splintering off into the myriad deviations that have grown outward from disco.

Some great music there and it wouldn't be hard to add a ton more. Oh Hell, here's a few:

Obits, Ambivalence, mnmlsm, and Warehouses

After a long couple weeks of publishing silence, I've got a couple articles up at PopMatters. They're all things I was unsure about after I finished them, but it turns out they're all pretty good. Check them out


The Fawn in the Burning Forest: Our Beloved Monster
My encapsulation of the whole Michael Jackson affair, which appears as part of PopMatter's week long infatuation with his death.



A review of Bibio's Ambivalence Avenue, which is quite a departure.


A review of Studio 1 by Studio 1 (aka Wolfgang Voigt), which reads more like a treatise on hyper-minimalism.


And a more substantial form of minimalism, in the form of Claro Intelecto's Warehouse Sessions

Toyota Scion Presents...

Is dubstep now officially dead?

Also, MSTRKRFT is dubstep?

RIP

Robert McNamara

RiP! A Remix Manifesto

A review of the new DVD Rip! A Remix Manifesto and a discussion of remix/free culture.