Tag: Classic Day

Classic Day – Chopped Not Slopped

It can be incredibly difficult to pinpoint exactly when hip-hop took over the mainstream through underground roots. While it may seem commonplace in 2019, remixing whole tracks by slowing them down, adding a new flair of glimmer and gloss was not such a simple… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Chopped Not Slopped”

New Music – Golden Age Dark Horses

“Don’t hunt what you can’t kill” describes a Macho Man Randy Savage impersonator, illustrating a relative sense to the hype of what would become CZARFACE Meets Ghostface. The album is a breath of old-head hip-hop that mixes with the sampling and producing power of… Continue Reading “New Music – Golden Age Dark Horses”

Classic Day – Load Up The Bus

Just a mere two years before the legendary Woodstock would breach the scene as one of the greatest innovations in musical events, The Beatles would step foot into a lengthy tour, movie, and adventurous deal. Magical Mystery Tour was something of legends, taking the… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Load Up The Bus”

Classic Day – Gold Records and Teeth

“I Dreamed that I was…hard” describes Andres “Dres” Vargas Titus on the first cut on A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. The 1991 record coming from Black Sheep, the duo from Dres and William “Mista Lawnge” McLean. A direct affiliate of the Native Tongues, where… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Gold Records and Teeth”

Classic Day – Kicking, Screaming, Burning

Raging from the city that spanned the White Panther Party resistance team and one of the biggest industries for backbones; Negative Approach has no comprehension of the word mercy. The group was a fast and loose punk band that achieved a national ranking for… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Kicking, Screaming, Burning”

Classic Day – Orchestrated Chaos

For the unknown and misunderstood workings of Joseph Jarman, the untrained ear might hear a slop of unorganized noise that transfers into freeform jazz. To the trained ear, it might just be the same thing as Jarman showcases through his 1991 release, Inheritance. A… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Orchestrated Chaos”

Classic Day – Out Of The Shadows

In one of the greatest ages of “sad boi” music comes Morrissey’s Viva Hate. Not only has this record helped more broken-hearted adolescents and early adults than crying into a well of tears, but the music behind the golden age of Morrissey helps heal… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Out Of The Shadows”

Classic Day – A Means To An End

As the hammer strikes down upon the steaming anvil, creating a blast of confusion for a moment; the industrial reigns take hold on the room engulfing everything in a blackened, crisp smoke. The smoke takes a similar stance to Nine Inch Nails on their… Continue Reading “Classic Day – A Means To An End”

Classic Day – Fingers In The Socket

With a recording process that seems to be formed in the deepest, yet most exhilarating moments of punk rock basements; Le Shok is an original. The group that formed under Long Beach, Californian nights and had a lo-fi sensibility before the wave and ages… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Fingers In The Socket”

Classic Day – Pages In Obscurity

Between the pages of comic book descriptions and black flags against societies common formalities; lies The Freeze. A Cape Cod punk/new-wave representative with a big mouth. While the band would never reach national recognition, their 1983 release simply titled Land Of The Lost would… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Pages In Obscurity”

Classic Day – Trip To The Congo

Without a doubt, Walter Wanderley has been placed within the hands of just about everyone who has ever rode in an elevator, watched Adult Swim on television, or ever ventured out into the great wide world of the internet. The iconic structure that Wanderley… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Trip To The Congo”

Classic Day – Beware Of Man

The age of especially long jazz-fusion hip-hop records were the thing in the early 2000’s. That was an era of man that decided that 25-total tracks was the best approach to engrain power to the ears. Jedi Mind Tricks with their second release, Violent… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Beware Of Man”

Classic Day – In Bloom and Out of Tune

Those four-count drum clicks that start off the overwhelming success of Nirvana’s In Utero, one of the many albums that will live in infamy for its working with one of the largest rock groups of modern history, but also the sound that it spawned.… Continue Reading “Classic Day – In Bloom and Out of Tune”

Classic Day – The Kids Will Will Have Their Say

Innovation at its peak always requires a change in the atmosphere. Music and art as a generalization is very similar to a pair of clothes, they cannot be the same day after day and must be changed. Through Minor Threat’s youthful title of Salad… Continue Reading “Classic Day – The Kids Will Will Have Their Say”

Classic Day – The Dueling Loves

“Wish I knew why I’m so in love with you” Nancy Wilson exclaims on the opening moments of her persuasive beauty split record with Cannonball Adderley. The two who were well known for creating their own illustrative and vivid styles behind the microphone and… Continue Reading “Classic Day – The Dueling Loves”

Classic Day – Disconnection

An absolute demon in her craft, Hiromi is a jazz pianist that manipulate the rules of sound to form along her own twisted, and dreamlike apparition within her 2004 release, Brain. While the sound is an experimental style and holds immaculate precision from her… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Disconnection”

Classic Day – Under The Rug

With a band as iconic as The Doors, instruments as 1970’s and stoner-washed as the style played by The Doors, and the immaculately experimental performances that changed music history coming from The Doors; the band was necessary. A component part in the manipulation of… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Under The Rug”

Classic Day – Living In The Aftermath

The 1980’s were a hair-raising, genre-blending smash of what would become a multi-layered cake of rock music. From the glam and hair rock genres that were starting to capture the mainstream, bands like Jerry’s Kids were taking the fight to the background with Is… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Living In The Aftermath”

Classic Day – Wake Up London

With the incoming wave of explosive and volatile music that was about to burst onto the scene in the late 1970’s, among them was Ian Dury. A cascading tank that would not let a simple, life-altering disease of Polio take him off the stage.… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Wake Up London”

Classic Day – Black Gold

With the influence of jazz music on the 1950’s, the influx of largely populated areas of immigrant and minority musicians came a new dissection of genre and quickly changed almost overnight. Dorothy Ashby was a part of that movement with a surprising instrument choice,… Continue Reading “Classic Day – Black Gold”