Sensitive Poptronica duo The Boys and Girls Club, a collaborative effort between producer Scott Thorough and singer/songwriter Michael McGuire, happens to be one of my favorite Nuk Fam affiliated acts.Their super-slept-on 'A Simple Night of Dancing With...' EP was one of the best and boldest debuts in recent memory, and was one of the most memorable standouts released during the 2007 calendar y...
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Co-ed Franco-Los Angeleno quartet Casxio are one of the many virtually unknown acts me and Emeyesi championed on our Urban Alternatives radio program during its eventful seven year run on 90.7 FM WTCC.Over a year later, the lite-Funk-fusion outfit is finally preparing to release their debut EP, and have even filmed a melodramatic and idiosyncratically bloody Fresh Kill Productions-produced vide...
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Co-ed Franco-Los Angeleno quartet Casxio are one of the many virtually unknown acts me and Emeyesi championed on our Urban Alternatives radio program during its eventful seven year run. The lite-Funk outfit is preparing to release their debut EP, and have even filmed a melodramatic and idiosyncratically bloody Fresh Kill Productions-produced video for the tune "Boiling Point." While the ban...
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‘Difficult Fun,’ the debut full-length album from eclectic Swiss Poptronica duo Larytta, was one of a handful of Hot Chip-esque records that dropped last year.It was a fun and funky romp that found the pair doing a whole lot more with the de rigueur Electropop tropes than a lot of the other artist who tried their hand at the sound.Their label, Switzerland's Creaked Records, is releasing a 5th
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Rockstar Games' ‘The Ballad of Gay Tony’ looks like yet another spectacularly cinematic entry in the ‘Grand Theft Auto’ video game series which I won't get to play because I don't have an Xbox 360. Like the previous biker-centric ‘GTA IV’ expansion episode ‘The Lost and the Damned,’ ‘The Ballad of Gay Tony’ will be released as an exclusive download for Microsoft's f
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Experimental emcee turned Indie-Rock trio WHY? and avant-garde Hip-Hop duo Themselves, stalwarts of the Bay Area's anticon. alt-Rap collective, get their Voltron by way of Animal Collective on on their collabo “Canada.”Themselves and WHY? “Canada” (.MP3)The tropically percolating tune, with its Coke-bottle percussion, glockenspiels and warm Rhodes tones, features input from all the members
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UK club-music veterans Basement Jaxx freak a flamboyant, almost Hi-NRG-style House beat, with some help from Electro-Soul crooner Sam Sparro (of “Cottonmouth” fame) on their new single “Feelings Gone.”As if a song that makes you want to tie your shirt in a knot and wave your arms in the air with abandon wasn't fun enough, the video clip utilizes some strikingly off-kilter computer animatio
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Camden, New Jersey-based emcee Al Mighty and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based emcee/beatmaker DistantStarr, two members of the Rap Pack crew which also counts 5 O‘Clock Shadowboxers frontman Zilla Rocca as a member, call themselves MAGr (pronounced “major”) when making records together.The duo’s debut download ‘No News is Good News’ finds the pair flexing both rugged and abstract late-
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Viral video for another ‘Cloverfield’ film? Fan made nonsense? Either way I really want to see the original ‘Cloverfield’ right now...and a sequel in the near future.
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Viral video for another Cloverfield film? Fan made nonsense? Either way I really want to see the original Cloverfield right now...and a sequel in the near future.
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‘Mystery Team’ is the debut feature-length film from internet sketch comedy troupe Derrick Comedy.The trailer makes me laugh, really hard.The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year.It's currently in limited release around the country, but will open nationwide some time in October.
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DJ and producer CX KiDTRONiK and emcee TchaKa DiallO of Krak Attack join forces with director Ethan Blum, Thu Tran of IFC's ‘Food Party’ and one of the illest Michael Jackson songs ever for the pussy assaulting “Beat it Up.”The pair is reportedly working on a follow-up to the 2006 ‘Krak Attack’ LP for Stones Throw Records which is said to feature appearances from DOOM, Saul Williams, f
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Syllabically dexterous Bay Area emcee Gift of Gab-one half of groundbreaking underground Hip-Hop duo Blackalicious and a founding member of the visionary Quannum Projects collective-is preparing to strike out on his own for the first time since his 2004 solo debut ‘4th Dimensional Rocket Ships Going Up.’His sophomore disc ‘Escape 2 Mars’-which features contributions from DNAEBEATS, Hednodi
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Syllabically dexterous Bay Area emcee Gift of Gabone half of groundbreaking underground Hip-Hop duo Blackalicious and a founding member of the visionary Quannum Projects collectiveis preparing to strike out on his own for the first time since his 2004 solo debut '4th Dimensional Rocket Ships Going Up.' His sophomore disc 'Escape 2 Mars'which features contributions from DNAEBEATS, Hednodic, B...
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Paving the way for his forthcoming major-label debut and a host of other projects, Los Angeles-based emcee and producer Blu drops a late-Summer-ready instrumental beat-tape titled ‘NoSleepForADay.’The seven track, eight-and-a-half-minute ‘NoSleepForADay’ finds Blu getting his Ummah on, with a suite of Dilla-inspired coffeeshop Jazz beats all built around a distinctive kit of Rhodes tones a
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Brooklyn, New York-based emcees and beatmakers August and Ugly Orwell make really dope Hip-Hop music together under the Bi-Polar Bear moniker.Besides having one of the awesomest group names I‘ve ever heard, they’re both extremely talented, both on the microphone and the production apparatus.No, I mean it, their big, dramatic beats, ear for eclectic samples, emotionally painstaking lyricism and
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I‘ve made no secret about my hatred for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight.’ One of my main beefs is that Nolan just doesn't seem capable of choreographing, framing or shooting action. The brand new trailer for his next film ‘Inception’ makes it clear that's only the case when he's shooting action featuring Batman apparently.Nolan wrote and directed the film which stars Leonardo Di
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