Posts tagged "Jimi Hendrix"
Spin Cycle: Gary Clark Jr., Blak N Blu

Spin Cycle: Gary Clark Jr., Blak N Blu

Does Gary Clark Jr.’s major label debut live up to the hype? We take a listen to the blues and soul musician’s “Blak N Blu.”

The Blerd & Gonzo Cover Convo: "Hey Joe"

The Blerd & Gonzo Cover Convo: “Hey Joe”

While I’m sure you’re all familiar with Jimi Hendrix’s version of “Hey Joe,” you haven’t LIVED until you’ve heard Eddie Murphy’s take. That and more in the latest Cover Convo.

Blerd Radio Episode 8: MTV in Middle Age

Welcome to yet another episode of Blerd Radio! In this episode, your hosts Mike & Jesse pay tribute to a cultural phenomenon by acknowledging the thirtieth (!) anniversary of MTV. Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that the advent of Music Television changed the industry as well as pop culture. Over the course of this episode, we discuss our favorite classic videos, shout out some iconic VJs, and bemoan the constant “16 & Pregnant” marathon the […]

New Release Report 11/16/10: The Reissue Theory

It’s mid-November, just a week and change until Thanksgiving, so of course there are a ton of albums coming out today. Most of them, however, are either compilations or repackagings. Some of them are worth it. Some of them, not so much. Anyway, here’s a sampling of the new old stuff you’re gonna see in stores and online this week. Easily, the biggest news is a massive reissue of Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town”. The Boss’s fourth […]

Chartstalker 3/17/10: It's Ludacris!

(now say that in a Mike Tyson voice. That’s what I was going for.) This week’s Billboard album chart is led by a pair of new entries. Atlanta rapper Ludacris bows on top with his latest album, “Battle of the Sexes”. Bolstered by the hits “How Low” and “My Chick Bad”, Luda scans 137,000 units in his opening salvo.  If that number sounds a little low, well, it is. Luda’s last album, “Theater of the Mind” opened with 213,000 units […]

Danger Mouse + James Mercer=Musical Heaven?

Where Brian Burton goes, I will follow. He successfully mashed up two of my favorite artists on “The Grey Album”. He produced one of the best albums in Beck Hansen’s career full of great albums. He joined forces with Cee-Lo to create Gnarls Barkley, the most commercially successful project in the career of the artist who set the black weirdo blueprint for Andre Benjamin. Let’s not forget about Dangerdoom. Now, the man more commonly known as Danger Mouse has teamed […]