Once again, Overthinkingit hops into the saddle for Stacie Ponder’s Final Girl Film Club. This month’s pick: The Car. Can we all just take a minute to consider how stupid that title is, by the way? Sure, there’s a proud…
What Evil Drives
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Why the hell isn’t everyone listening to FUGU?!
Fugu is a pretty outstanding band, you guys! Although that might stretch the definition of the word band: Fugu is basically the French multi-instrumentalist Mehdi Zannad and an enormous rotating cast of studio musicians. Track and links after the jump.
Obama Rasta
Last week, I was sitting in a bar in the village of Ngare Ndare in northern Kenya, nursing a Krest Bitter Lemon, and listening to the radio. The radio was tuned to Metro FM, “Kenya’s House of Reggae.” Amidst the…
This is the sound of Phnom Penh, circa 1966
In the mid 1960s, Cambodian musicians began to combine the scales and instrumentation of traditional Khmer music with surf guitar, farfisa organ, rock beats and balls-out vocals, all drenched with echo and distortion. The result is quite simply the most…
Dey Know Yayo
I know this isn’t news: Anyone who really pays attention to hip-hop probably knows about the new Clipse mixtape already. But hey, we all have busy schedules. So just consider this a friendly reminder to download We Got It 4…
overlistening: I Missed The Bus (Kris Kross-1992)
I’ve always appreciated the honesty of this song. Rather than the posturing and posing that characterized much of 1990s hip-hop, I always believed Daddy Mac and Mac Daddy wrote about what they knew on this track- no gangsta posturing, no…