The Crate Kings site is a national treasure. Scratch that: it's an intergalactic treasure. Somebody (or a team of individuals perhaps) with a lot of time on his hands and the kind of obsessiveness I admire almost more than anything else in the world encoded to MP3 snippets of 300 breakbeats that form the foundation of hip-hop. Hello, Mr. Nobel? I would like to nominate the cat(s) behind this Herculean project for one of your medals. Please look into it.
Scrutinize the names here and you'll see
More than three decades after recording their debut record, Detroit garage/proto-punk trio Death is finally releasing their album.The band is/was(?) comprised of three brothers: guitarist David, bassist/singer Bobby and drummer Dannis Hackney. And yes, they are black, but by brothers I mean they share parents. The story according to their myspace page is that they got some money from Clive Davis to record 12 songs. But the music mogul wanted the threesome to change its name before issuing the al
