The N. Period

Nice new video from Beck, this one for the song “Gamma Ray.” Beck can seemingly do no wrong, evidenced by the fantastic release Modern Guilt

We’re just giddy waiting for the release of Bill Cosby’s upcoming hip-hop album. What’s that you say? Everybody’s favorite poppa of the puddin’ pop is gonna drop some verses? Well, not exactly. While Cosby has said that he will not be rapping on the project— perhaps some spoken word-type stuff will be going on — he has divulged that the unifying theme of the album is aimed to counter the misogyny and negativity that are so prevalent in today’s popular rap.

I just heard Jason Kidd’s 1994 attempt at rapping — a sad song called “What the Kidd Didd” that features Digital Underground’s Money B. It can be said with no hesitation that Kidd and B. have recorded one of the sorriest songs in the world’s history. I have done my best to transcribe the lyrics here, but there were a few nonsensical parts that I could not comprehend. Jason Kidd, if you read this, please leave a comment and fill in the gaps. Enjoy!

Bay Area producer AmpLive has a remix album of Radiohead’s In Rainbows that’s recently became available. Includes tracks with verses from excellent Cali rappers Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, and Del the Funky Homo Sapien.

Yay! As of right now, this is the final scheduled North American stop before they hit the UK again for the summer.

Available for purchase here soon

RADIOHEAD NORTH AMERICAN TOUR :: MAY 2008

May 5 – Cruzan Amphitheatre – West Palm Beach, Florida
May 6 – Ford Amphitheatre – Tampa, Florida
May 8 – Lakewood Amphitheatre – Atlanta, Georgia
May 9 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre – Charlotte, North Carolina
May…

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Also available hi-res here.

This amazing video is the coolest use I’ve seen yet of the trend of light graffiti that has been in vogue over the past year or so.  The creators of this great video have published an amazing instructable of how they did it here, which they parlayed into a $15,000 laser engraver in a contest from the folks over at Instructables.…

It’s about damn time. The iPhone beginning to approach a capacity that is actually usable to serious iPodders.  Beginning today, the iPhone will now be available in a 16GB model, while the iPod Touch has increase its top capacity to 32GB.  I don’t think that I will get an iPhone until they are at least 30GB, so hurry up Apple!…

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Long-time Dallas DJ Fran Erck, who spun as DJ Frantic and was one-half of the Clever Monkeys collective, has passed away in an auto accident over the weekend. This guy was a tremendous talent and he will be sorely missed by the community. Condolences to his family. Here is a link to the NBC 5 story. Following…

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Full tour schedule after the jump. 

Caught these guys at the House of Blues Dallas Saturday night and I must say that they were amazing.  They played an eight-turntable set and each of them had a foot pedal for sampling.  And they played nothing but original 45s.  All of their activities were recorded with cameras…

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Radiohead, The N. Period’s selection for top album of 2007, just announced that Dallas will be on their ’08 tour, meaning that there will be just about a decade between their trips to the Big D.   This show should be worth the wait. Cities announced on the U.S. tour include:

Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Houston
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Miami
Montreal
New…