The Roots, What They Do, 1996

Rick Roll and Nirvana, check it.

We are pleased to present our 12th installment of Sound Advice featuring Justin Van Hoy.  Justin is a Los Angeles based designer. He is an east coast transplant along with his wife Holly and lives in Highland Park with their two cats, the Garcia Brothers. He designs books and draws things to make rent and has a pistol in case anything gets weird on “the avenues”.

Sound Advice 12 – Justin Van Hoy

01 Dishes – Pulp
02 Uptown – Primal Scream
03 Sketch for Summer (Remastered) – The Durutti Column
04 Black Sheep Blues – Tommy Guerrero
05 I Wonder – Rodriguez
06 Herstory of Glory  -  Do Make Say Think
07 That’s the Punch Line – The Walkmen
08 Life’s a Gas – T.Rex
09 Heart of the Country – Paul McCartney
10 Prarie Rose  -  Roxy Music
11 Age of Consent  – New Order
12 The London Radar – Cornershop
13 I Wanna Live – The Ramones
14 Children of the Grave – Black Sabbath
15 I Remember You – The Ramones
16 Twenty Four Hours – Joy Division
17 Lost in the Supermarket – The Clash
18 Cyndi – Yardwork (NC)
19 Harness & Wheel – Kingsbury Manx
20 Picasso’s Last Words – Paul McCartney & Wings

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Souls of Mischief, That’s When Ya Lost, 1993

Acid Symphony Orchestra – Diamonds Of The Night from Jori Hulkkonen on Vimeo.

via, BoingBoing

Following up on the discovery RZA’s new book, here is a video of him playing chess against a 16-year old chess prodigy.

The Roots, Next Movement, 1999

The Rza’s got a book coming out this fall.

Pre-order it here

Directed by Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric.  Seriously amazing

via, theDW

Run-D.M.C., It’s Like That, 1983

via, NYMag

This documentary is showing tonight at 8:30pm Tribeca Cinemas as part of the Brazilian Film Festival.  We suggest you get tickets.

“For 20 years, a subculture has emerged under society’s radar. Favela On Blast tells the stories of sex, love, poverty and pride for Rio’s marginalized people. They have their own language, style and heros. It’s a music that’s fast, heavy and violent like the city itself. This film is a flash of a few lives of charismatic people that relate to the funk music and a retelling of the subculture itself.”

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Jay-Z covering the Beastie Boys at All Points West Friday night

Sunday is going to be great.

We are happy to present our 11th installment of Sound Advice featuring Caleb Neelon.  Caleb is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based professional teenager.

Sound Advice 11 – Caleb Neelon

01 Dalai Llama – Caddyshack
02 Susie Q – Dale Hawkins
03 Don’t Care – Circle Jerks
04 I’m a Little Mixed Up – Betty James
05 River Euphrates – Pixies
06 Sweet Musille – The Corporation
07 E.V.A. – Jean-Jaques Perrey
08 The Funky Technician – Lord Finesse
09 Mona Bone Jakon – Cat Stevens
10 Sound System – Operating Ivy
11 Wop Do Wop – Electronicat
12 Ring of Fire -  Ray Charles
13 Get Out Of My Life Woman – Allen Toussaint
14 I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone – Johnny Nash
15 Chairman Of The Board – Bongo Herman, Les & Bunny
16 I Against I – Bad Brains
17 You Can’t Blame The Youth – Bob Marley & The Wailers
18 Electra Loo – Fred Weinberg
19 Nite Safarie – The Black Star Sound
20 Dora – Motia
21 Can I Be Your Squeeze – Chuck Carbo
22 I Don’t Want to Grow Up – The Ramones

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LL Cool J, Around The Way Girl, 1990

Lord Finesse, Hip 2 Da Game, 1996

Hatebeak is a death metal band whose frontman is a 19 year old  African Grey Parrot named Waldo.  Their music has been described as “a jackhammer being ground into a compactor.”  I’m into it.  Music after the jump.

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