Scissorkick.com was born within the second wave of music blogs in the late 1990s and is guided by a soundtrack to one mode of contemporary living here in NYC. It is proudly genre-agnostic and on a continuous search for new independent rock and electronic music.
I don’t think most bloggers realize how fucking lucky they are. They get free music, access to shows, dedicated readers, ad revenue, and other assorted benefits that come from nary a pinch of the pocket. It’s all the result of posting music (often illegally) and confirming to a worldwide audience that they are the rarified dweeb-combo of both music nerds and technology geeks. I of…
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Okay, because of my usual slacker ways, I’ve missed the window to recount my excellent Touch & Go adventures and need to get back to the new music because there is just too much good shit in the queue right now. Today’s post is at first an odd pairing. The Same Channel teams two unlikely foes in a fight against the impending demise of hip-hop…
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Got back from DC and was happy to return to the Ratatat record sitting in the mailbox. Not only did the good people at XL send over the CD, they also sent over the first vinyl single from the record, “Wildcat, ” which includes a sick E*Vax remix on the A-side. What can be said about Ratatat that hasn’t already been said? The record has…
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