Archive for January 21st, 2009
Redux Deluxe: Early 90s Hip-Hop Classics
From the Department of True Classics…
Big ups to @shappy, The Aesthetic Poetic, and James Chutter.
Keep it movin’, y’all.
Gang Starr – “Mass Appeal”
Lords of the Underground – “Chief Rocka”
Das EFX – “Real Hip-Hop”
Common – “Resurrection”
The East Flatbush Project – “Tried by 12″
Blahzay Blahzay – “Danger”
Crooklyn Dodgers – “Crooklyn”
Brand Nubian – “Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down”
Jeru – “Come Clean”
Ice Cube – “It Was A Good Day”
Raekwon – “Incarcerated Scarfaces”
Artifacts – “Wrong Side of the Tracks”
De La Soul – “Ego Trippin”
Digable Planets – “Blackitolism”
Boogiemonsters – “Recognized Thresholds Of Negative Stress”
Group Home – “Living Proof”
O.C. – “Time’s Up”
Outkast – “Benz or Beamer”
EPMD – “Da Joint”
Keith Murray – “The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World”
Smif-N-Wessun – “Bucktown”
Geto Boys – “Mind Playin’ Tricks on Me”
Notorious B.I.G. – “Juicy”
Casual – “That’s How It Is”
Craig Mack – “Flava in Ya Ear”
Dream Warriors – “California Dreamin’”
Method Man – “You’re All I Need” (ft. Mary J Blige)
Easy-E – “Real Muthaphuckin G’s”
MC Eiht – “Straight Up Menace”
L.O.N.S. – “Classic Material”
MC Lyte – “Poor Georgie”
Freestyle Fellowship – “Innercity Boundaries”
Black Sheep – “The Choice is Yours”
DJ Shadow – “In Flux”
2009 Oscar Nominations to be Announced Thursday
Nominations for the 2009 Oscars — officially known as the 81st Annual Academy Awards — will be announced on Thursday, January 22nd by Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker and Academy President Sid Ganis.
Will Slumdog Millionaire sweep the nominations? Will Benjamin Button make the cut? Will Mickey Rourke’s comeback continue with a nomination for The Wrestler? Coul Wall-E take another step closer to becoming the first animated featured to be named Best Picture of the Year?
NowPublic will be updating this post as the nominations are announced.
This year’s Academy Award ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 22nd in Hollywood, California at the Kodak Theatre and broadcast live on ABC.
The 81st Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar-winning actor and Academy member Forest Whitaker.
Ganis and Whitaker will unveil the nominations in 10 of the 24 award categories at a 5:30 a.m. news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world will be gathered. Nominations information for all categories will be distributed simultaneously to news media in attendance and via the Internet on the official Academy Awards Web site, www.oscar.com.
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Animal Collective Announce ‘Merriweather’ World Tour Dates
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Animal Collective are quickly establishing themselves as the de facto blog buzzband of 2009 with the release of their new much-hyped album Merriweather Post Pavilion.
The band have announced world tour dates that will include an appearance at the New York edition of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in September.
Animal Collective 2009 Tour Dates
1/20, New York, NY (Grand Ballroom)
1/21, New York, NY (Bowery Ballroom)
1/22, Chicago, IL (Metro)
1/23, Los Angeles, CA (Henry Fonda Theatre)
1/24, Los Angeles, CA (Troubadour)
5/11, Washington, DC (9:30 Club)
5/12, Philadelphia, PA (Electric Factory)
5/13, New York, NY (Terminal 5)
5/14, Boston, MA (House of Blues)
5/15, Montreal, Quebec (Metropolis)
5/16, Toronto, Ontario (Sound Academy)
5/18, Royal Oak, MI (Royal Oak Music Hall)
5/19, Milwaukee, WI (Turner Hall Ballroom)
5/20, Minneapolis, MN (First Avenue)
5/24, Vancouver, British Columbia (Commodore Ballroom)
5/25, Portland, OR (Roseland Theater)
5/26, Oakland, CA (Fox Theatre)
5/27, Big Sur, CA (Henry Miller Memorial Library)
5/29, Los Angeles, CA (Wiltern)
5/30, Las Vegas, NV (House of Blues)
5/31, Tucson, AZ (Rialto Theater)
6/1, Albuquerque, MN (Sunshine Theater)
6/2, Boulder, CO (Boulder Theatre)
6/4, Dallas, TX (House of Blues)
6/5, Austin, TX (Stubbs)
6/6, Oxford, MS (The Library)
6/8, St. Petersburg, FL (State Theatre)
6/9, Fort Lauderdale, FL (Culture Room)
6/10, Orlando, FL (Club Firestone)
9/12, Monticello, NY (All Tomorrow’s Parties)
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