Alright, people, let’s say it together: SA-RA (pronounced sah rah). If you haven’t been under a rock for the past few months, you’ve probably heard the buzz about the NY/LA threesome, whose debut album, Set-Ups and Justifications, will soon drop, courtesy of Kanye West’s label, G.O.O.D Music. If you have been under a [...]
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Ilhan Ersahin is the man at the center of an ever-growing circle of musicians centered around his Nublu nightclub in New York. Brazilian Girls, Kudu, Love Trio, and others have all spent time incubating in front of audiences at Nublu. Our Theory is Ilhan’s latest creative endeavour.
Born of a chance meeting with French [...]
Teddy Douglas and Jay Steinhour have become famous as The Basement Boys. But since you’re nobody until you have a handful of aliases to your credit, the duo have conjured up a heavy-footed, 74-year-old drummer from Louisiana named Mudfoot Jones to put them on their way to multiple-alias fame and fortune.
The fictional back-story says [...]
Either I’ve been listening to obscure music for far too long or Nino Moschella will soon have a video getting 50 runs a day on MTV. I say that not to denigrate his music, but to laud the sheer charisma he exudes on The Fix.
Some records land on independents because they’re rejected by majors. [...]
A Dust Brother (Cheeba), a peripheral Beastie Boy (Money Mark), a Headhunter (Mike Clark), and a slew of other musicians join producer Aja West’s tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim. Throw in the fact that the album is mastered by Brian “Big Bass” Gardner, better known for his work with gangsta rap acts like N.W.A., [...]
Drugs and music have a lot in common. Both have their casual users who can take or leave their substance of choice. Both have fairly regular users who could probably go without, but would rather not. Finally, both have addicts, people who would forego food for just one more hit. Both [...]
A long-forgotten piece of the Bay area’s musical legacy, Daron “Darondo” Pulliam was thought by many to be dead. DJ after DJ, collector after collector, and historian after historian tried to find him for nearly a decade. Anyone with the name Pulliam had received a call. Even DJ Shadow got in on [...]
There are some old funk and soul records that are revered because they’re rare. Collectors have too often made the music secondary in their pursuit of the little known and obscure. All those same collectors have been chasing after Darondo for years now. The difference is that Darondo thoroughly deserves to be [...]
No one is going to mistake Breakestra for Sly Stone or Bootsy Collins, and that’s alright. The L.A.-based outfit is looking to create its own legacy with a contemporary take on funk music. First heard covering classic breaks and beats in 2001, when Peanut Butter Wolf’s Stones Throw label released The Live Mix Pt. 2, [...]
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