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Best Music of 2011

2011 has been a remark­able year. It has seen vol­canic erup­tions dis­rupt global travel, polit­i­cal upris­ings in the Mid­dle East and North Africa, an offi­cial end to the US occu­pa­tion of Iraq, the emer­gence of a gen­uine polit­i­cal protest move­ment in Occupy Wall Street, incred­i­ble flood­ing in South Asia and South­east Asia, the end of […]

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Hip Hop is Read presents The Beat Tape, Volume #1

I am happy to announce that two of my beats have been selected for inclu­sion on The Beat Tape, Vol­ume #1. Big thanks to Ivan for putting the effort into solic­it­ing and com­pil­ing the mate­r­ial from his read­er­ship. And thanks, espe­cially, for pick­ing my stuff for vol­ume one. Con­grat­u­la­tion to all the other pro­duc­ers, too. More info […]

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Music faves from 2009

It seems that 2009 is the year when I shifted my atten­tion back to rock and pop music. Dub­step still holds my atten­tion but not to the extent that it did back in 2006 when it took over my brain. Here are the things I enjoyed most in 2009, in no par­tic­u­lar order. Best Albums The […]

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Found it!

I love when I find some­thing that I for­got that I was look­ing for… I used to search for this song at every record store I vis­ited from around 1996–2000. It was not a new song at the time, but I really wanted it on 7-inch. Amoeba Records in San Fran­cisco had a cor­ner filled with […]

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dj mumbler on-the-air

Start­ing this Sun­day, I will be host­ing a radio show on KANM — "the col­lege sta­tion of Col­lege Sta­tion." It is an AM sta­tion, as well as cable FM on Sud­den­link Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. There is a stream avail­able at http://kanm.tamu.edu, which seems like the most nor­mal way to access the show (what is cable FM?). The show […]

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