It’s been a while. I don’t have any excuses on this one, other than motivation has been waning on anything that is not work related and not sports related. Each passing year feels like I have less and less time for me and more time for “everyone else” instead. So its a new year, 2023. I’ve made it another year. I keep telling myself I need to watch the film “This is 40”.. Read More
This weekend was surprisingly interesting for being such a non-event. Let’s run through it. Warning: this post will go all sorts of directions as I try to work out everything going on my life. Last weekend I was out of pocket for a family reunion primarily on my Mom’s side although I did spend much quality time on my Dad’s side as well. This was the first reunion after my Mom passed away.. Read More
Back in the late 90s when I was in high school, I recall one of my classmates introduced me to a website called “undergroundhiphop.com” (or UGHH) with some interesting musicians. He was particularly taken with horrorcore artists Necro and Cage. Personally, I came to enjoy more artists from the Rawkus Records roster. “Underground hip-hop” is a type of umbrella term that encompasses hip-hop music that has not quite found the mainstream media and.. Read More
It’s early December and Spotify is detailing my listening preferences with their “wrapped” summary for year 2020. It’s one of the reasons I actually prefer Spotify over Apple Music–these types of annual statistical summaries as well as what I believe to be superior playlist curation. So this year my most listened to artist was Tom Misch. I was not surprised, given his latest album What Kinda Music (2020) definitely grew on me this.. Read More
Jamiroquai is a British funk music act lead by Jay Kay, born Jason Luís Cheetham, a supremely charismatic lead with a powerful singing voice. This collective maintains quite a rank on my list of all-time favorite musical acts, and although their tour together may be on the trailing end, I expect them to maintain a seat there indefinitely. This band, formed in 1992, came to find international success with their record “Virtual Insanity.”.. Read More
It’s 1995 in Orlando, FL and a group of talented adolescents came together and formed a boy band, an entertainment collective common at the time riding the coat tails of already popular groups such as New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys (who were also collected by Lou Pearlman in Orlando). This new band would be called *NSYNC. I recall early in high school hearing their early singles (likely on MTV via.. Read More
I like to relive music as I write about it. Hybrid is a British breakbeat effort that I discovered during my freshman year of college back in 2001. This was my first year where I could spread my wings and have some level of independence. I had just moved out of the house into a dormitory a significant distance away from home. I had a computer, a college campus, and a gym just.. Read More
The City’s Beautiful in the Early Morning Air I took the featured sunrise photo at the end of last year, 2019, during a weekend excursion. I find the beach therapeutic. The waves washing against the shore in a regular rhythm. The soft ocean breeze wafting and the resulting goosebumps all over my skin. Couple this with some jazz or other calming music so I can clear my head and all of my problems.. Read More
A bonobo is a species of monkey similar to the chimpanzee. It is also the pseudonym for Simon Green, a British-born electronic musician who I have followed for the better part of 20 years. I have consistently held him within the top 5 (personally ranked) musicians that I have enjoyed over the years, and he holds a place up there even today. I struggle to find exactly how I was introduced to Bonobo,.. Read More
I’ve been wanting to talk about Gabriel for a while now. The primary purpose of this post is to review his newest album Agüita, released quite recently on October 2 of this year, but I wanted to give some background to this review as well. I’ve been following him since I discovered him, like many, from Drake’s gratuitous sample in his track “Jungle” back in 2015. The track sampled, called “6 8” (likely.. Read More