everyday is a gunshot…

Like everyone else, I remember 9/11 all too well. I had just flown from New York to Los Angeles the night before — getting home at about 3am — only to be awoken a few hours later to see the towers fall. As you all know, it was terrifying and unbelievable. I sat fixated on the news for as long as I could stand it, which must have been three or four hours if not more. At some point there was only so much I could watch, but what else could we do? Nothing felt right. We couldn’t go out. …

winston riley’s techniques!

Winston Riley had been churning out the hits since the ’60s before someone took his life recently. He is probably most known for Tenor Saw’s ‘Ring The Alarm’, but also recorded 40 year’s worth of other jams.

tenor saw mix…

If I had to pick a favorite Jamaican musician, I’d have to go with Tenor Saw. When I went to college in Colorado for my freshman year, it was a Tenor Saw tape given to me by a stoner reggae dude that really got me hooked forever on Jamaican music.

eek-a-mouse mix..

Or.. eek-a-mix. If you don’t know the mouse, you should. And if you do, you know why he gets his own mix. In my car I have this ipod car stereo that has to be the worst thing ever designed. The “select” button actually changes depending where in the menu tree you are, how confusing is that? Someone just wants you to crash using this thing. So I just leave the ipod on shuffle and skip songs. You really get to know your music when you run that style for a few months. I learn stuff like, I have a …