June 27, 2020
Electric Adolescence Hall of Fame

Definitive Artist Retrospective Mixes – by Electric Adolescence

While I would never downplay the appeal of listening to a great album, I’m not sure there is anything more compelling than hearing the best output from the greatest artists distilled into a single session.
September 25, 2020
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Sault: Continuum of Activist Black Music

Racial activism within music isn’t a modern phenomenon, it has been there since the artform’s inception. In the late 1800s, marginalized African-American communities invented the Blues largely as an expression of their subjugation.
May 4, 2021

DJ Shadow: Endtroducing – 25th Anniversary Sample Mix

Cited as one of the best records of the nineties by most major music publications and included in Time Magazine’s list of greatest albums of all time, one of the keys to the resounding impact of DJ Shadow’s Entroducing can be found in the title of one of its less substantial cuts, a 43-second interlude entitled “Why Hip Hop Sucks in ‘96”. It kind of did.
June 13, 2021

Record Weasels: A Novel of Addiction

Record Weasels by Richard Blackburn is a savvy, hardboiled noir-thriller piled high with double-crossing 45 collectors, violent RICO-era mobsters, and failing relationships wrapped in greasy wax paper with a side of sexual tension, drug addiction and death all served cold to an early ‘60s Rockabilly soundtrack.