I’m going to spare you a long introduction because I don’t want to create any innuendos that suggests I didn’t scribble half this list in my little red journal while riding the train yesterday afternoon, and the other half by racking my brain over the last year for albums that I remember playing over and over as my three week obsessions. With that said, I don’t have many three week album obsessions, so this list, to me– is special.

I did go back and listen to all of these albums through again to make sure this list is authentic for the bands and anyone who values my opinion. So, I love you all. Let’s get to it: Continue reading →

Junior Kimbrough is the poor loner’s answer to B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. Kimbrough, born in 1930 in Hudsonville, Mississippi, was a very laid back romance-centric southern composer who had a knack for writing simple, underground make out blues ballads. There’s nothing showy about Kimbrough. His love songs like Meet Me In the City are made up of upbeat rockabilly-folk guitar riffs and enchantingly endearing lyrics.

If you want authenticity and to hear a simple man play music with his heart on his sleeve, Junior is an artist to explore. Continue reading →

Kris Kidd is a 20-year-old author who is celebrating the upcoming release of his new collection of essays entitled, I Can’t Feel My Face. We’ve been totally enamored with his essays and brief exclamations and iterations of his eerily pristine and wise words. Kris’ disturbingly perceptive take on his own life and today’s youth culture at large, makes him a prime candidate to become a fresh new voice for the latter end of Generation Y.

P/P decided to pick his brain about this literary journey, since he’s been afforded the opportunity of being published, which is a gift many writers will never obtain after a lifetime of attempts. Here is a brief Q&A that skims a few layers off of Kris Kidd’s process and lays them on the table for you to partake in:

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Far Fetched Future is a young, insidiously accomplished NYC based photographer whose crisp, sterilely poignant photographs are the complete opposite of the haunting and foggy photos most of us moody, generation y’ers usually go for. Future’s work reveals a clarity of the truth of every moment and frame he captures. There is nothing left to the imagination as you can see very line, glare in the eye and tattoo on all of his subjects. His work is diggable and intimidatingly professional. At barely 23 years old, Lucas Farrar’s career makes most media professional’s portfolios look like high school collage projects.

He’s one of of Hip Hop’s premiere photographers, as his work as been featured in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Black Book Magazine and so on. But enough with the words. Let’s check the images: Continue reading →

After a short stint as the bassist of the disbanded Brooklyn based thrash punk band, Ritz Riot, Xe Davis is finding her own sonic style with her music project, Gun/Her. She now resides in Los Angeles and performs with her all male band as they create a sultry and sensually lazy beach sound that is intriguing, haunting and sensibly electro acoustic. We like to see musicians emerge from the depths of the boiling, sticky DIY underground, and Xe is definitely an artist to watch. Check out her single, Chained and follow her journey through her riot grrrl Universe of beach babe weirdness and realized/stylized punkabilly soul.

Some things are short and sweet, and some things are long and arduous. Some things in life are simplistic, and others move you to the brink of a breakdown. There are times when people have a perception of life that pigeon holds others from completely being themselves. We are complex and multifaceted human beings, so when someone comes along who has a vision of how you should fit into their box of “awesomeness”, and you can send them this mixtape:

Your Dream /  Not My Scene Mixtape #2.02

Be the best freak you can be.

The Flaming Lips released an album that was patched together over 2011 and 2012 with recordings of their collaborations with some of contemporary music’s most influential artists. The album is called Heady Fwends, and was relatively ignored until the band released a music video a version of Roberta Flack’s First Time I Ever Saw Your Face that featured Erykah Badu. Continue reading →

Erykah Badu goes back to her original southern fried R&B pop style after years of experimenting with synthesizers and slightly watered down experiential expressions in regards to her lyrics and hooks. Her signature laid back, open mic-esque rambling flow has reemerged, and one can only guess its because of the potent neo soul- roots instrumental soundscapes and the sensual, equally beautiful vocals of R.C. and the Gritz. It is slightly unfortunate that Badu steals the thunder from such an organically talented and listenable band, but the is track strong, and kind of addictive.

“Don’t take me for graaaannted…”

Word.

Look out for a Publik / Private exclusive interview w/ Disappears when they return from their European tour. Until then, eat this.