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VIII - 11.10.08

Welcome to the latest edition of the VIII, where I’ll be featuring eight different performers, currently on the move, whom I have enjoyed in the past, with a few recent discoveries as well.

MGF Reviews The Black Keys - Attack and Release

The Black Keys - Attack and Release
Nonesuch Records (4/1/08)
Blues-rock
The story goes like this: Danger Mouse, über-producer for the ’00s, was working on an album with rhythm & blues & spousal-abuse legend Ike Turner, and tapped the modern stripped-down psychedelic-blues duo The Black Keys for a few tracks. Once ol’ Ike shit the bed, the project [...]

More Reasons Why Being Deaf Sucks/Rocks - Resolution: Week 51

Sometimes albums just fall though the cracks. That’s certainly the case with this week’s selection, Styles P’s Time Is Money. This was an album that I was really looking forward to, but by the time it finally came out, it had been bumped down on my priority listening list—which got it placed on [...]

A Moment’s All I Ask - 3.26.08

This week, American Idol showed us that one thing’s for sure—Simon’s really not all that impressed with the contestants, especially vis-à-vis taking the judges’ suggestions seriously. This was another strange night, with only a few standouts in the bunch. And there was no doubt that Chikezie just had to go.
Ramiele Malubay, in a [...]

MGF Reviews Spirits in the Material World: A Reggae Tribute to The Police

Spirits in the Material World: A Reggae Tribute to The Police
Shanachie (2/19/08)
Reggae / Dub / Ska
Tribute albums can go either way. On one end of the spectrum, you have releases like The Electro Industrial Tribute to Korn and the countless Cleopatra Records tribute albums, including ’80s Metal Tribute to Van Halen (a fustercluck featuring [...]

Red Bull Presents The Human Guinea Pig #2

So, Jalen has been sick all week, culminating in an all-day Saturday sick-fest, keeping me anchored to the computer, while I hide out from his germs. Just f*ckin’ around, reading the bootleg for the 12th time, when I found your Fast Food column. Man, I was dyin’ just trying to get thru w/o [...]

Kentucky Fried Chicken Presents The Human Guinea Pig #1

Welcome to The Human Guinea Pig, my newest brainchild in a series of side projects from my usual music fare. Remember Standards and Practices? Me neither…
In this column, my main goal is to put my body on the line and act as a human guinea pig so that you, the reader won’t have [...]

The Weekly Music Pulse: The Saturday Swindle Sheet #100

I love this job more than I love taffy, and I’m a man who enjoys his taffy…
Welcome to The Saturday Swindle Sheet. This week’s column is brought to you by Kentucky Fried Chicken, which, as announced a few months back, will be gradually bringing back its original name in the next year, after changing [...]

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