Your Mom’s Favorite DJ

Turntablism is a weird thing to get into. It can be easily described as “instrumental hip-hop,” but that’s not quite accurate, at least not for this album and for pioneers of the genre like DJ Shadow and Rjd2. Although many turntablists and DJs produce for an MC to...

Painkiller Hotel

What can I say about this album?  It isn’t new.  It is neither refreshing nor surprising.  It isn’t mind-blowing, face-melting, genre-bending or other cliches. It is simply commercial-grade, homogenized pop rock; white guys performing vanilla rock on coral...