Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol Records 2011) The Beastie Boys have been around for nearly 30 years. When they started out in 1982, most of the country had never heard of three Jewish teenagers playing hardcore punk. That changed in 1986 with their first album, License to Ill. Since then, Ad Rock, Mike D., and MCA have given us hardcore punk, jazz, funk, … [Read more...] about Hot Sauce Committee Part Two By The Beastie Boys
Maui Music Scene
SLAM Featuring David Choy and Clay Mortensen
SLAM, BAM, Thank You Man Six-piece smooth jazz ensemble hits all the right romantic notes All of a sudden somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets IT--everybody looks up and knows; they listen; he picks it up and carries. Time stops. He’s filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old … [Read more...] about SLAM Featuring David Choy and Clay Mortensen
Album of the Week
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Domino; 2006) Rated 8 of 10 This album takes us to a gritty and dreary world of inhabited by alienated and violent people. It’s a fast-paced romp into the dregs of northern English nightclubs. Ironically, it’s the furthest thing from dance music. It rocks. Guitars combine clean and trembling riffs with heavily … [Read more...] about Album of the Week
The Strokes
In 2006, the Strokes went on a hiatus. It took them five years to give us this album. The Strokes have been credited for defining their generation with early hits like “Last Night” or “Reptilia.” But Angles is ample proof that the Strokes would rather mimic past rock acts from the ‘70s and ‘80s. That mimicry is so prevalent in Angles that The Strokes could easily be mistaken as … [Read more...] about The Strokes
The English Beat
In 1978, amidst economic downturn and subsequent social upheaval, The Beat was born in the British borough of Birmingham. Wrought with massive industrial decline and caught in the middle of the Cold War, the sociopolitical landscape indelibly informed the group’s style, forging a composite of lyrical realism-meets-positivism set to infectious, genre-bending dance music. “We … [Read more...] about The English Beat