DJ News, Soccer, and Estupido
The last installment of ‘Summer Tease/The Good Life‘ pool party at the Standard in Downtown L.A. was a great success! Much love to Transworld Surf, Surfaid International, The Standard, those that made it possible, and all that made it out. Video of the get down below, check it out.. The next unique surf rock inspiered [...]
Ran into Rick Rubin and Amanda Santos at a recent reception at Ohwow. Congratulated him on the Album of The Year Grammy for 21 (Adele). His work at Def Jam, American Recordings, and now Columbia are among the finest recordings ever made.
Stopped by Kid Millionaire’s ‘Wonderland’ release party last night. It went down in true Hollywood fashion..money literally raining from the roof, movie stars and all the glitz and glam that comes with the territory. The new album hosts a full roster of collaborations and guest appearances..from Kid Cudi to members of The Exploited to Lovefoxxx [...]
While driving around, running errands today, I heard a Les Baxter track that stopped me dead in my tracks. Originally by the virtuoso Sergei Rachmaninoff, “Prelude in C# minor” has the kind of hook that makes a movie score legendary. In the hands of Les, you’ve now got a backing funk break matched with a [...]
Justin Miller of DFA gives us a breakdown of his “As Kind As Summer” mix that he put together for New York’s Unis clothing store. Ned Doheny – Give It Up For Love I got into this record via Jonathan Galkin at DFA. He had been reading a lot of books on the singer-songwriter scene [...]
To go along with our Good Records feature we got Jonny from Good to give us a Record Check of his own. Some unusual and unexpected picks… Herbie Hancock – Stars In Your Eyes – Columbia Herbie’s electric period is dominated by the clumsy scratches of “Rockit”, the frog-belch bassline of “Chameleon”, and the [...]
I was just perusing the record check archive and it got me inspired to put one together. Kinda surprising how different the digging game is these days. Looking back on those old posts it seems it was all rare breaks and reggae 7″s mixed in with dirty south singles. You’re not going to find much [...]
Former NY Store manager, DJ Sabo pulled a Ricky Williams / Roctakon and is off pursuing a life of DJing, production, skating, and booty caressing. He took an hour off to do this Record Check of twelves that never leave his bag. Also check out Sabo’s digital chart, link at the bottom of post. Basic [...]
We quietly dropped Eli’s new Escobar Edits on site last week (a couple weeks early at the shops). Here’s the official release announcement with Eli dropping a Record Check for the occasion. Look for the record to be dropping at other fine record shops in the coming weeks. Also check out Eli’s digital chart, link [...]
the blog is lookin really good these days – lots of eye catching content. for shits and giggles i wanted to continue the fun that was Boy Genius’ Record Check during his takeover. sorry though, i can’t top the “40 Bars.” here’s a rundown of some joints that you can afford and possibly find with [...]
