Slaine Interview on KarmaLoop TV
Posted on January 22, 2010 by Martín Caballero - Filed Under Boston Hip-Hop, Interviews, Video | 1 Comment
FOUND: Sleezy Trees
Posted on January 21, 2010 by Martín Caballero - Filed Under Interviews | 3 Comments
As some people may have noticed, but mostly probably not, Sleezy Trees‘ drunken rants about socialism and America have been missing from JTTS for a few weeks now. We caught up with him over a breakfast of toothpaste and almonds in the dark heart of Boston in January.
A lot of people are wondering if your [...]
New People Under The Stairs Exclusive: Thes One Clowns Pharrell
Posted on January 13, 2010 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Interviews, Rap Beef | 3 Comments
Matt Groening tapped PUTS — along with Phish, Moby, and the Harlem Gospel Choir — to tweak The Simpsons theme song for this past Sunday’s 20th-anniversary episode. That said, not everyone’s a fan. Last year, the hacktacular Pharrell Williams blasted Thes after the latter’s beat bumped a Neptunes cut as the title track for the [...]
Semi-Exclusive Mayer Hawthorne Interviews For The Soul
Posted on December 22, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Boston Hip-Hop, Hip Hop, Interviews | Leave a Comment
A few months ago Mayer Hawthorne and Buff 1 made their way through Boston (and a bunch of other locales, I suppose), where they encountered this city’s most obnoxious interviewer, Van Stylez. Now they probably won’t come back.
Whether you’re a fan or not, there’s no doubt that Mayer was one of the most remarkable music [...]
Richard Lewis: The Interview
Posted on December 18, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Interviews | 2 Comments
I’ve always wanted to play personal psychologist for Richard Lewis. Although it’s been obvious for decades that his self-doubting paranoia act is not an act, I was curious as to whether he truly tortures himself through every waking moment. Turns out he does — despite such cathartic efforts as his 2001 memoir, The Other Great [...]
EXCLUSIVE Bill Maher Feature from Yellow Rat Bastard
Posted on December 3, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Interviews | 1 Comment
“It’s an embarrassment of riches when you’re picking from the barrel marked ‘America,’” says the firebrand comic and host of HBO’s Real Time. “I think F. Scott Fitzgerald said that the mark of a good mind is being able to retain in your head two disparate thoughts. That’s what stupid people can’t do. With me [...]
The Most Original Brother Ali Article Ever? Hey – I Tried.
Posted on November 5, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Interviews | 1 Comment
The only thing less common than Brother Ali–caliber MCs are profiles that don’t credit dude as “blind” and “albino” in the first graf. Despite the Minnesota-based rapper’s decade-long presence on the boom-bap atlas, the media (including me, it seems) remain overwhelmed by his unconventional background and pigmentation. That’s just the way things work in the [...]
The Warren G Interview
Posted on October 30, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Interviews | Leave a Comment
Humble and nonchalant as ever, Warren G is cooler than Miles Davis smoking an Alaskan cucumber. Like his stepbrother Dr. Dre, he’s a godfather of G-funk — a reclined complement to the harder West Coast gangsta styles designed by N.W.A — and his production hustle is as smooth and lasting as his buttery braggadocio. Aside [...]
My Interview with Bill Maher
Posted on October 17, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Interviews | 3 Comments
Although Bill Maher is a comic by trade, a quick survey of political pundits would reveal that he’s one of the most serious analysts in the business. Like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin before him, Maher barks with no muzzle every time he mounts his soapbox; unlike those First Amendment flag wavers, however, he tackles [...]
The Most In-Depth 88-Keys Interview Ever
Posted on September 26, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Hip Hop, Hipster Rap, Interviews | 1 Comment
Here we have the marriage of two relatively recent developments that excite me – Hearty magazine and 88-Keys. The former is one of the Web’s rare well-executed mag sites, and the latter – I suspect – is the real genius behind Kanye West (I suspect he was too busy to help with the last album). [...]
Exclusive Mayer Hawthorne Interview and Feature
Posted on September 24, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Interviews | 3 Comments
Although unlikely, Hawthorne’s rise wasn’t quite as unbelievable as some on-line rumor mills have suggested — he wasn’t an obscure shut-in making laptop rock in his Underoos. As DJ Haircut — before he donned a cardigan and dropped the universally adored single “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out” — the vinyl-minded turntablist/producer racked up props and [...]
Knife Wanted Me To Post This Interview with Glenn Howerton from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Posted on September 13, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Interviews | 3 Comments
In its first four seasons on FX, the instant cult classic It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has touched everything from racism to children. The comedy — which follows four thirtysomething bar-owning vagrants (and one comparably degenerate role model played by Danny DeVito) in their sinful adventures — can be described as Seinfeld with no condom, [...]
Boston Phoenix Dispatch Update: Willy Wonka and Hip-Hop from New Zealand and Senegal
Posted on September 10, 2009 by Chris Faraone - Filed Under Interviews, Media | 1 Comment
In the past week I’ve…
Had a great interview with Gokh-Bi System
Intercepted an IM Conversation between Two College Freshmen who were are the Mos Def and Talib Kweli Show at the House of Blues
Watched Willy Wonka in Smellovision
And reviewed the new David Dallas disc
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