Wow, I haven't posted here in a bit. Well, let's do some catch up.I have added another site to the places I write for. It's called Blinded by Sound and it's an awesome music site run by Josh Hathaway. You can find a link to my profile in th…
Wow, I haven't posted here in a bit. Well, let's do some catch up.I have added another site to the places I write for. It's called Blinded by Sound and it's an awesome music site run by Josh Hathaway. You can find a link to my profile in th…
The next things on my writing agenda are reviews of the first season of The Middle and Royksopp's new album Senior. These two things will definitely happen because they are assigned to me. Everything else I mention below is not guaranteed.
It's been a while since I've posted here. I haven't quite had the urge to do so but that doesn't mean I haven't done at least a little writing. So, here's the stuff I've done since the last post...The first review is that of the re-issue of…
In December 2009, Snoop Dogg released the full-length album Malice N Wonderland. It was a solid effort from the rapper spawning hits such as "I Wanna Rock," and "Gangsta Luv" featuring The Dream. Just a few months after releasing this album…
Three years after taking a detour into pop/rock with The Third Hand, artist/producer RJD2 returns with his new album The Colossus. The first album released through RJD2's own record label, The Colossus is his first major album to feature hi…
Another year has ended which means it's time for my annual Favorite Albums list. These are the albums that never stayed too far away from my ears in 2009. Of the twelve albums on my list, three of them are debut albums, three of them are “s…
It's time for another installment of the Yoko Kanno Reviews, where I review the music of one of my favorite composers. This time around, it's for the Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society OST. The Solid State Society OS…
Yoko Kanno and Maaya Sakamoto have worked together on numerous occasions. Kanno has produced songs on Sakamoto's albums. Sakamoto has contributed vocals on several of Kanno's anime soundtracks including those for Arjuna, Wolf's Rain, and Es…
Kamikaze Girls is a live-action Japanese film that I must say that I know little about. I've heard nothing but good things about it and I've been interested in seeing it even before finding out that Yoko Kanno had something to do with it. A…
The last Yoko Kanno review I did was of the soundtrack to a live action movie that hasn't even been released in America yet. Now, I continue to dive into the obscure with the NHK China Special Chuugoku soundtrack.As the name suggests, this
As many of you reading have probably heard, rapper Proof of the group D12 was shot and killed early Tuesday morning. This is the second major loss to Detroit's hip-hop scene after the passing of Jay Dee (aka J Dilla) earlier this year. Acco…