Rhymefest doesn’t wanna talk about Kanye West (his childhood friend and co-producer on Kanye’s Grammy winning single, “Jesus Walks”). He doesn’t wanna talk about Mark Ronson (who signed him to Allido Records in 2005), and he doesn’t wanna talk about Eminem (who he famously defeated in a Scribble Jam battle back in 1997).  “The past [...]

On a trip to Paris, France in 2005 (which I’m still paying for, no thanks to my credit cards), I spent a good portion of the trip sampling albums at the listening stations in different record stores. After hearing them many times over the loudspeakers, I ended up with the debut from a band I [...]

For a time, I used to work at a record store. We would dig through crates and throw on anything that looked interesting. We’d throw anything good onto one of the 3 main spools of CD’s…or, if it was really good, it would become a permanent fixture on the 5 disc CD changer. The Dears’ [...]

Tabloid magazines are made in hell. Luckily, music blogs are not. Well…some of them anyway.
I recently had the pleasure of getting some interview questions to electronic indie dance punks, The Faint. The Omaha, Nebraska band recently released their fifth full length record, Fasciinatiion (spelled with four i’s, fyi) on their own new label, blank.wav. They [...]