R.I.P Adam Yauch

I'm sorry that this is late but I've ben swamped. As you all surely know by now on May 4 of this year Adam Yauch, more famously known as MCA, died in the city of New York at the age of 47 after a near three year battle with cancer. I would like to send out my condolences to Adam Yauch's family, friends, and band mates. Adam was a legend that truly changed the world for the better, as one of the co-founders of the legendary Beastie Boys he helped change the music world forever. Adam also was the creator of many charities around the world. So I would like to take this moment to say thank you to Adam Yauch for everything you did for music and for this planet. You will be greatly missed and will be forever in our hearts.
R.I.P Adam Yauch

-Evan

Music I Really Liked In The Time I Was Gone!!

This video is older than the Explosions review, notice, I have new glasses in the Explosions review.

Explosions In The Sky (w/Zammuto) Live Review

Here is my review of Explosions in the Sky's live performance with opening band Zammuto. Sorry I haven't posted this in the past while, it's been on youtube for to long not to be on the blog.

Nas - The Don (Single) Review

The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2 Review

Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (also known as Odd Future or OF) is a rap group based out of LA. Established in 2007 by producer/rapper Tyler, The Creator, the group consists of rappers Mike G, Earl Sweatshirt, Domo Genesis and Hodgy Beats as well as producers Left Brain, Syd tha Kyd, and Matt Martians and singer Frankie Ocean. Other members include Jasper The Motherfucking Dolphin (Jasper Dolphin), L-boy, and Taco. The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2 is their fourth release under the label Odd Future Records.


For this album, I felt that they should have spent more time on each individual track writing more lyrical rhymes and producing higher quality beats like in Oldie, and less time trying to make a super long (18 track, 1h3m) album. OF also seemed to have a hard time finding a unique style and sticking with it. Styles ranged from R&B (Analog 2) to hardcore underground (crunk?) shit (50). The majority of the tracks seemed underproduced and cluttered, much different than the dope style of past tracks like Yonkers. Two key tracks were Oldie and White. Oldie had a fresh and beautifly simple beat as well as very solid raps from Earl and Tyler and a clever verse from Jasper Dolphin. White featured crisp vocals and thoughtful lyrics from Frank Ocean over top of an elegant chord progression played on a Fender Rhodes.


Overall, I listened to this album with hopes of hearing dope beats and witty lyrics. I guess I overestimated OF a little because I was disappointed with the lack of effort on many levels throughout the album.


4/10

Daily Squeeze: 4/1/12

Hello people of the internet, today's squeeze is the band Coyote Fever, which are friends of ours over at the random squeeze. Over the past few weeks I had the great joy of seeing them live. What I can tell you about them is that they are a group that if I had to explain it (which I am now) sounds like Explosions in the Sky with lyrics, shorter songs and a much more prominent indie rock bass line. Like I said they're friends of ours and they are definitely going to make it, check them out as soon as possible, go on to their facebook, listen and download their demo.

facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coyote-Fever/201661007312?sk=app_178091127385

Peaces,
 Evan

Kiran Leonard- Bowler Hat Soup Album Review

  To start off this album was my first introduction to Kiran Leonard. I had heard the name but had never listened to the music until a few weeks ago while searching on bandcamp for new music I stumbled upon an album that had cover art that I just couldn't ignore. Then I started to listen and started to fall in love with Kiran Leonard's style. This album utilizes an indie rock sound that is just plain old fun to listen to. To start out with the pros of this album I would like to say I love the voice of Kiran Leonard, his voice fits the instrumentals he is given on every track. Another thing that I enjoyed on this album was the use of Kiran's influences in music. For example on the the tracks Port- Ainé he uses the same keyboard sounds that Daniel Johnston used on many of his more famous tracks. In fact when listening to Port- Ainé I had to quickly check my screen to make sure that I wasn't listening to Big Business Monkey. But moving on I like his use of these influences but also maybe he could try to maybe break away from such obvious influences. Going back to the rest of the album another thing I like Is the catchiness of this album. It seems that every now and then I find myself humming or singing he tracks. Overall I'm really liking this album, but haven't really found myself loving it. It is a catchy and fun album to listen to, but albums like that tend to fade away for me after awhile. 7.5/10

-Evan