Recent Posts from 3hive

3hive — My problem with a lot of so-called "avant-hop" music, even some of that released on our beloved Anticon label, is that it's just not funky enough. To quote that great skit from De La Soul Is Dead: "Maybe if you flipped it on 45, so I could dance t... read more »

3hive — Cap'n Jazz were such a short-lived band that their entire musical catalog fits on a double album. But what a double album it is - a sloppy, cryptic, energetic, engaging masterpiece - and it's being reissued by their erstwhile label, Jade Tree, as... read more »

3hive — Now this is my cup of tea, or more appropriate, my cup of soup. An album named after food. Ya-ka-may is a type of New Orlean's street food: a noodle soup typically made with shrimp, chicken, roast beef, and almost always a hard boiled egg. Galacti... read more »

3hive — Today is my youngest son's 6th birthday. Happy Birthday Jasper! What more can a six year old ever want on his birthday than a review on 3hive dedicated to him? Maybe he'll appreciate it more in ten years. When he wakes up he's gonna be appreciatin... read more »

3hive — So one of the band members of Earth Program, I won't identify her specifically, has been pestering me for this post for some time. I think she didn't really realize that I had quietly retired from 3hive as a way to maintain sanity. Seriously, how... read more »

3hive — Inlets' first full-length album has been over three years in the making, and now fans can finally hear why it took so long. Sebastian Krueger is back with a lush slice of pastoral pop called "Bright Orange Air", a teaser from the forthcoming Inter... read more »

3hive — The name suggests a one-person show, a jazzist of the Jaga persuasion, whatever that might be, but in fact, this is a nine piece band from Norway formed 15 years ago by a then 14-year old, Lars Horntveth. The name also implies perhaps a certain mu... read more »

3hive — Sebastian Fors, Sweden's answer to Jeff Tweedy, used to roll with a revolving cast of characters called The Ones That Got Away. He now leads a group called Let's Say We Did. Fors' groggy vocals and lovelorn lyrics cast a nice shadow against the ba... read more »

3hive — It's been almost four years since Bonobo (aka Simon Green) dropped a full-length on our ears, so pardon me if I get all giddy on you with this post. Bonobo gets heavy rotation in my mixes and iPod for their timeless, jazzy goodness. Like the right... read more »

3hive — Sorry for the hiatus. Life got a bit hectic the last couple weeks, and since I'm pretty much navigating this ship solo (alas!) it doesn't take much for it to veer off course. Queue The Royal Chains. I pulled this out of the latest stack of mail at... read more »

3hive — On my radio show, Quantic (aka Will Holland) is my go-to guy, so when I realized we had not given him the proper props on these pages I did some music mining. Lo and behold, Holland himself provides a minor motherlode on his Quantic site. I use hi... read more »

3hive — Alisa and I read differently. She reads for plot. I for sentences. Sleepingfish publishes writers whose first concern is the sound of their sentences. Music without notes. Just tone and rhythm. Rhythm and mood. Consider this sentence from this iss... read more »

3hive — I don't remember where I had been camping. I was thirteen years old. A Boy Scout. One of my best friends at the time, Greg Angel, was having a birthday party and because of a scout trip I wouldn't be there. There was a Plimsouls show at Perkins Pa... read more »

3hive — Phantogram sets the bar high for new music in 2010. Obvious comparisons to Portishead aside, this young duo easily hold their own. It's a fine distinction, but Phantogram is more space-hop than trip-hop and "When I'm Small" throws down a groove of... read more »

3hive — Tycho's latest single evokes the tranquil mood that accompanied my recent sunset chase here in Huntington Beach. A few years back my father pointed out that late in the year, and from the vantage point of the H.B. pier, the sun settles into the is... read more »

3hive — I don't listen to David Bazan as much as I should. The reason why is pathetic. And definitely one a musician never wants to hear—that you love one album, or maybe just one song, so much that anything else from that artist pales in comparison, acco... read more »

3hive — We just included Pocket's Top 9 of 2009 in our on-going Best of 2009 lists from friends of the 'hive. Be sure to take a gander that way for his take on art, apps and laughs along with his cover of New Order's "Sub-Culture" for next year's tribute ... read more »

3hive — R.I.P. I flew around a little room once. A line from Supernatural. He was just that. He possessed an unearthly energy and yet was humanistic with the common man in mind. He was entirely present and entirely somewhere else. A mystical somewher... read more »

3hive — Compared to the bands I'm about to use to describe them, Total Babe could be named Just Babes. Still in their teens, this Minnesota quartet just performed their EP release party in their hometown and one of their mother's baked brownies for the ev... read more »

3hive — What does it take to to wake me from a 3hive coma? One simple tweet: "@diplo: i wish atlas sound would ask me to make them a mixtape." Which got me thinking, How friggin sweet would that be? Which got me thinking, Wait, none of us have posted Atla... read more »