It's been a while. Every so often I would be listening to something, saying to myself, "My, this is good stuff, I should post something about this" and then get distracted and not.
Will try to stop doing that.
Anyway, diablodeazucar has been digging the following in '08:
Invincible
The best female rapper since...well, since Lauryn Hill was a rapper. And definitely the best white rapper since Princess Superstar...(ah, Princess Superstar...) This track wins Best Hip-Hop Track Featuring a Flute 2008, one of the few tracks that would be well worth a listen either for the vocals or the instrumentals. Rest of the album is pretty good walking-down-the-street-head-bopping music too.
Invincible - "Sledgehammer!"
We Are Wolves
Damned if the sound doesn't have a wolf-like savagery to it at least. Apparently they're from Montreal - who knew? Just about as loud and noisy as you can get with a very tight groove, also on the borderline between "serious" and "just kidding". Great walking-down-the-street-liquored-up-and-looking-for-trouble music.
We Are Wolves - "Musique"
Stars of the Lid
On the other end of the spectrum - very ambient-y without getting to the point where you say "You know what? This is pretty ambient-y. I wish it were less so." Excellent falling-to-sleep music.
The National
Yeah, I think I might have posted on them before but I'm too lazy to check it out and this video will do you good anyway...
The National - "Apartment Story"
The Hot Toddies
I like the Hot Toddies. Never actually got to see them live even though they're from effing Oakland, something always came up. But they're good not-so-clean fun. Not their best performance, I imagine.
The Hot Toddies - "Seattle"
The Gza
They're actually kind of like a real old-school Shaw Brothers kung fu movie - kind of silly, but still good stuff, nothing to be ashamed of, but not really anything to be proud of either...
The Gza - "Alphabets"
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i like a lot of the stuff you listed here: i've seen shows of We are Wolves (being that they are local, they play out here more often) and was lucking enough to see Stars of the Lid play in a church (actually posted on this a while back). Invincible is great! i'll tell my rapper friends about her. but her video looks very Marky Mark-early 90s. is she still around? i'll investigate!
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