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• February 6, 2016

  Songs of The Year-Pretentious by Elijah Blake produced by Tec Beatz

    Songs of The Year-Pretentious by Elijah Blake produced by Tec Beatz by Dan-O This song is a really well-crafted dagger in the heart of the kind of asshats I share classrooms with every semester (I am the second oldest person in every class). I love the refrain “La di di la di dey look…
• January 30, 2016

  Mixtape Review-The Owners Manual by Curren$y

  Mixtape Review-The Owners Manual by Curren$y by Dan-O It has not been easy to review mixtapes lately. While a lot of people are pleased as punch to see the upcoming on datpiff become available a lot of it sounds the same. Putting together daily playlists of new mixtapes I have more often than ever had…
• January 23, 2016

  #ThemostBandcampGold​-Sinister Vibes by Afraid

  #ThemostBandcampGold-Sinister Vibes by Afraid by Dan-O I have specifically not reviewed a lot of music that I loved just because I didn’t feel like my words were good enough to capture its flavor. Sometimes I really regret it, couldn’t let that happen with Sinister Vibes. I’ve been making a concerted effort to highlight more of…
• January 16, 2016

  #Bandcampgold-Bubblegum Graveyard by Apache Dropout

  

    #Bandcampgold-Bubblegum Graveyard by Apache Dropout   by Dan-O So I had no idea who Apache Dropout was until a few weeks ago; while scouring the internet for stuff to listen to I found a series that Paste Magazine had done years ago trying to find the best bands in each state, http://www.pastemagazine.com/tag/50_states_project. By the time…
• January 14, 2016

  #BandcampGold-Interrobang by Jargon Party

  #BandcampGold-Interrobang by Jargon Party by Dan-O You could pour what I know about the Emo music movement into a thimble and have room left. What I do know and enjoy is surf rock from The Ventures to Surfer Blood. The new EP from Jargon Party, Interrobang, is Emo taken to the beach and lightyears different…
• January 10, 2016

  #Bandcampgold-Chalk It Up To Bad Luck by The Caught Flies

  #Bandcampgold-Chalk It Up To Bad Luck by The Caught Flies by Dan-O I don’t hang out with the right people to have this debate but….I’ll take Motorhead over Metallica at their best. Motorhead at their best?  No. Motorhead really at any phase of existence. Metallica was always trying so hard that I was never convinced,…
• January 7, 2016

  Song of the New Year-See You Down by King Chip

  Song of the New Year-See You Down by King Chip by Dan-O I would like to present King Chip with The Pretty Tony award for hidden gems. Pretty Tony is easily the second best solo album Ghostface Killah ever produced (I love me some Fishscale guys I’m just saying), the problem was he produced it…
• December 31, 2015

  #BandcampgoldTHROWBACKWEDNESDAY-ShaShaSha

  #BandcampgoldTHROWBACKWEDNESDAY-ShaShaSha by Dan-O I have never met Dominic Lavoie of Dominic & The Lucid but I imagine him as the nicest man you’d ever meet. He produces all kinds of cool albums for cool people, he jumps in and sings back up here or there. Everyone loves him. It only makes sense that he is…
• December 25, 2015

  Mixtape Review-White Christmas 3 by Troy Ave

  Mixtape Review-White Christmas 3 by Troy Ave by Dan-O Troy Ave put out his Major Without A Deal album to the lowest sales numbers anyone could imagine. The result was classic ugly internet foolishness; the critics told everyone they knew he didn’t matter the whole time, the twitter comedians were cutting together the funniest meme’s…
• December 19, 2015

  Mixtape Review-The Kanan Tape by 50 Cent

  Mixtape Review-The Kanan Tape by 50 Cent by Dan-O One song on 50 Cent’s new Kanan Tape (free release mixtape) flawlessly represents the conundrum of 50. The song is called Body Bags and it starts with 50 telling a story about gambling one night, when a gunman barges in, shouting for everyone to go face down…