Time Jumpers

Several of hip hop’s currently most talked about (relatively) underground rappers are being questioned, whether maliciously or genuinely, by fans and critics alike on their authenticity.¹

Finals Talk

My friend Anthony and I have a tradition of texting each other all throughout football and basketball games that we're watching at the same time. The games are inevitably 10% less enjoyable when this doesn't happen.
That is, unless Hubie Brown is commentating. This is the conversation we had that started in the closing minutes of game 4 of the NBA finals. As you might imagine, some of the stats quoted may be slightly off.

"Heaven"

The consensus is that Heaven, the new album from The Walkmen, is about “grown- up-hood”. In fact they’ve eliminated any ambiguity by using photos of themselves with their wives and children in the album’s artwork and for promotional purposes. I was lucky enough (and simultaneously unlucky – I’ll explain later) to have gotten my copy of the record early by pre-ordering but still, the feeling I believe Heaven was meant to convey didn’t really hit home for me until I saw The Walkmen play their Bowery Ballroom homecoming show the way an “old man” would – at home alone on my 13 inch laptop with the lights out and a Coors tall boy.