Just a little bit more than a week, and we’re headed back to 12-Turn-13 for our first loft party in almost a month. Here’s a little taste of what’s to come from our guest via a four-hour Theo Parrish mix. Unsurprisingly, the mix is being hosted by Bozman, whose site seems to be a compendium for every single Parrish mix ever leaked.
One of the great photographers of jazz, Herman Leonard, died last weekend. He was 87. Fred Kaplan offers up a lovely obit at Slate, describing Leonard’s seminal New York years and his late-in-life return from obscurity. Check out a slide show of some of Leonard’s best work, alongside classic shots by William Gottlieb and William Claxton.
We may live for the bassline, but we can get down with some otherworldly abstraction. For anyone else in New York who shares that sentiment, here’s a heads up: Don’t miss Miguel Frasconi and Denman Moroney at The Stone tonight.
These two gifted experimentalists will showcase their new collaborative album, Gleam, by creating strange sonic textures from shards of glass, ringing bells and the innards of a piano. The video above captures Frasconi coaxing beautiful sounds from what looks like an entire back bar. His parents must have had their hands full…
Despite album sales continuing to head the way of the dodo, 2010 is quietly shaping up to be a banner year for hip-hop. And though rap isn't something you often hear emanating from Mister Saturday Night's speaker stacks, we're still paying attention.
Thanks to the ever-growing community of internet rap nerds, unconventional MCs have been empowered like never before to bypass the major labels and direct their latest head-nodders straight to the people. We've rounded up a handful of our favorite Web-only mixtapes from the year so far, for your downloading pleasure. Continue reading “Our Favorite Rap Mixtapes of 2010, Pt. 1”
Back in February, when Floating Points came to play with us, he played this magical edit of Danny Hunt’s What’s Happening To Our Love Affair – sending us right over to the booth to find out what it was. Ever since, we’ve been wearing it out ourselves and falling in love with the everything else on the label, Truth Is Light.
Run by Jason Lev, a serious record collector based in Vancouver, BC, Truth Is Light digs up rare R&B and disco that is always surprising and always exactly what we want to hear. The label’s website is simple but useful: You can hear all their releases, order them directly from Lev, and you can download or stream a few great mixes – like this one. Check it!