Recent content by Matos_W.K.

I love that Black Leotard Front song, the whole of DFA Comp 2 really, but that one's my favorite thing they've ever released, pretty much.

I must say, though, that considering how many litmus tests seem to be applied to this album on here, partly but not limited to the "if you aren't completely involved with a scene from the word go and aren't paying PROPAH homage to the folks who PROPAH-ly make it in its PROPAH setting, your...

I like that--I "ran the script." No, I heard a record, had no back knowledge about it, and came to a conclusion based entirely on what I was hearing. If that's lazy or non-committal, oh fucking well.

Mine are from a freestlye on (I think) a So So Def mixtape, by Ludacris: "2004, the world needs more lesbians/And more drunk drivers to hit drunk pedestrians."

Matt I will gladly pay you etc. etc. etc.

yeah, there's a Luaka Bop comp (I read about it on Jeff Chang's blog and had seen/heard one of the tracks off an MP3 blog, forget which one--not Jeff's he doesn't upload MP3s) as well as the Normal one; they're separate.

but what am I?

yes it is.

to me it sounds like a girl group record--as in "Iko Iko" not "Say My Name."

it is in fact on Luaka Bop but I've not seen it yet myself, no other info I know of :-( The Music in My Head/Etoile de Dakar thirded! LORD what great albums . . .

I like Kanye & Common's "Better Than Yours" and especially So So Def ft. Ludacris' "Freestyle" ("2004, the world needs more lesbians/And more drunk drivers to hit drunk pedestrians")

one of my seven or eight favorite singles this year, easily. who CARES whether she ripped someone off? [haha cue loads of more-indignant-than-thou replies]

I can't imagine it's all that different from writing a good or an indifferent review; this stuff's out there, here's how it is, don't bother or do. and it's not a matter of being "forced," it's a matter of whether there's something interesting to say about something--that's a best-case scenario...

this isn't true at all. criticism isn't a function of the marketplace; it goes deeper than that. when I or most everyone else here talks about records, sometimes for print but even just on here, we're not doing it in a predictive or money-led fashion. we do it because we care about this stuff...

That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people who aren't now and never will be hipster intellectuals, or hipsters, or intellectuals, which isn't to say they don't know what's happening around them or they're not intelligent. But (and I'm thinking of a couple friends in particular)...