Andrew Warner

Read one here.

Just as a reminder, everyone get out to your favorite, locally owned music store today and pick up the new Nas and Mos Def albums. Keep real hip-hop alive by voting for it with your dollars.

I will put up the title track/video, "Hip-hop is dead," from Nas' new album right here. Review it in the comments if you want – classic rock fans might recognize the beat.



**Update** The Mos Def album has been pushed back, again. It's new release date is January 9th... That ruins my day.

Labels: Hip-Hop, Music

Posted by Andrew Warner at 10:30 AM | Permalink | Comments

More than once in the blogosphere, some bitter commenter has glanced at my Blogger profile and defeated any argument I have (no matter how awesome it is) by pointing out Blink 182 is one of my favorite bands.

People lose intellectual respect for me when they realize I like a band that rose to fame with dirty jokes about boobs and semi-reflective songs about heartbreak. As I was 13 at the time, it was right up my alley. When I started listening to them, the band was probably an average of 22 and just finding prominence by landing a track on Can't Hardly Wait soundtrack – "Damn it," a song about the difficulties of breaking up and growing up.

Now they are all in there 30s and broken up. They are squirting out babies and spending more time with their wives instead of chasing girls and having their hearts shattered. Though their latest album, self-titled, took several steps forward and showed the inevitable maturation that comes with ten years, they still called it quits suddenly after its release – a nasty goodbye that resulted in the canceling of half a tour and the severing of all ties.

Rumor has it, Tom Delonge, the somewhat pompous front-man, has not spoken to the other two members of the band since they went their separate ways.

However, the members have their own projects now and one of them is in town tonight. Call it nostalgia if you must, but I'll be there tonight at the Madison theater to see part of the band (Tom Delonge as a member of Angels and Airwaves) that grew up alongside me.

Maybe I'll see you there.

Labels: bars, Cincinnati, Music

Posted by Andrew Warner at 2:17 PM | Permalink | Comments