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The Month In: Reggae / Dancehall
We wish a goodbye and good luck and say thanks to our longtime Jamaican music correspondent Dave Stelfox as he prepares to take a job on a newspaper in the Middle East. Plus: The birthday bash for Bunny "Striker" Lee that helped him bid farewell to London.
Darker My Love: 2
With 2, a slightly louder, more expansive re-imagining of their 2006 debut, L.A.'s Darker My Love continue pushing slick, devil-may-care psych rock, meticulously modeled after like-minded Californians who've either exhausted their dangling-cigarette cool (B.R.M.C.), pissed away their potential (Brian Jonestown Massacre), or simply never had much hope in the first place (the Warlocks).
Laura Marling: Alas, I Cannot Swim
Promising Brit-folk singer/songwriter finally has her Mercury Prize-nominated Alas, I Cannot Swim-- recorded when she was just 17-- issued in the U.S.
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: Angles
Fucking hell.
Beans: Thorns
MC, Antipop Consortium member, and self-described "Ornette Coleman of this rap shit" returns with an album of bushy, crooked beats with rhymes that are both confessional and evasive. Holy Fuck and Dabrye contribute production.
Eight Great Back-to-School iPhone Apps [Back To School]
If you're headed back to school this semester with an iPhone or iPod touch in your pocket, you're in luck: The iTunes App Store is filled with applications to make your life easier as a student and...
Battle of the Must-Have Firefox Extensions [Lifehacker Faceoff]
Mozilla Labs crowned their picks of best new and updated Firefox 3 extensions in a recent contest, but what about best extensions of all time? Last year we ran down our must-have Firefox extensions,...
HashTab Verifies the Integrity of Your Downloads [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: If you download a lot of applications from the internet, chances are you've seen an MD5 hash next to the download link. This unique hash is used to verify the integrity of your...
UNetbootin Creates USB-Bootable Linux the Easy Way [Featured Download]
Windows and Linux only: Free bootable image creator UNetbootin automates the downloading, imaging, and installing of Linux distributions onto USB thumb drives, creating a persistent, boot-anywhere...
Hive Five Winner for Best FTP Client: FileZilla [Hive Five Followup]
Open-source FTP client FileZilla takes home the top spot in last week's Hive Five Best FTP Clients poll with an overwhelming 52% of the vote. The rest of the field was split up relatively evenly...
Ghetto Palms: Silent River / Self Defense / Kartel vs Mavado / It’s Happening Again
Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago.
A lot done transpired in the world of GHETTO PALMS since the last installment. For one thing, Jamaicans have been cleaning up in the Beijing Olympics, at least the sprinting parts. That’s not really super relevant here except for the fact that it’s inspired a whole flood of 45s dedicated to Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Shelly Ann Fraser (from Elephant Man, Mavado, Cocoa Tea and Hopeton Lindo, to name a few) not to mention a much-needed swelling of Jamaican national pride. On the domestic front Daddy Yankee single-handedly ruined the genre of reggaeton for me by endorsing John McCain but at least (?) he is showing some kind of rudimentary political awareness. So for this edition I figured I would set aside all that heady, conscious stuff and focus on clashing. I’m sorry.
Silent River Riddim Blend:
Busy Signal, “Whine Like That”
Serani, “Do You Good”
Demarco, “God Nuh Sleep”
Chris Martin, “Style and Swagger”
Elephant Man, “That You Fi Run”
Munga, “When Me Waan To”
Mavado, “Dem A Pree”
Vybz Kartel, “Rise Di K”
Busy Signal, “Money We Seh”
Download: Silent River Riddim Blend
Self Defense Riddim Blend:
Vybz Kartel, “Send A Hell”
Mavado, “Dem A Fag”
Bugle, “What A Way”
Download: Self Defense Riddim Blend
Maybe the reason I’m so fixated with this is that I just invested a lot of time and energy putting together a FADER magazine cover story on