Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
M.I.A.'s Matangi
M.I.A. has once again delivered an engrossing platter of ear candy with her latest effort Matangi. From the opening of “Karmageddon” through the closing track “Sexodus,” M.I.A. brings the listener along as she dominates the sonic scene; rapping over house, dubstep, and Middle Eastern beats. The sound is loud and abrasive as melody takes a backseat to fierce bass and drum. Even the reggae-influence “Double Bubble Trouble” is overwhelmed by the electronic break.
M.I.A. speaks out on a wide array of topics, including her detractors, her infamous Super Bowl appearance with Madonna, karma, reincarnation and greed. Her cadence is diffident and seemingly made to call the attention of the masses to what she is proclaiming. Being raw is also part of the scene.
In “Lights,” over a hypnotic backbeat M.I.A. declares that she “used to be a bad girl, now I’m even better,” and in “Know It Ain’t Right,” she states that although she knows the difference between right and wrong she has no qualms with either one.
Matangi is a logical progression to the work already produced by this experimental-pop artist. M.I.A. has created an East-meets-West, urban electronic landscape that is disturbing but beautiful.
- Album: Matangi
- Artist: M.I.A.
- Label: Interscope Records
- Songs: (1) Karmageddon (2) Matangi (3) Only 1 U (4) Warriors (5) Come Walk With me (6) Attention (7) Exodus (8) Bad Girls (9) Boom (skit) (10) Double Bubble Trouble (11) Y.A.L.A. (12) Bring the Noize (13) Lights (14) Know It Ain't Right (15) Sexodus
Here's something you might be interested in.
M.I.A.'s Matangi
M.I.A.'s Matangi
M.I.A. has once again delivered an engrossing platter of ear candy with her latest effort Matangi. From the opening of “Karmageddon” through the closing track “Sexodus,” M.I.A. brings the listener along as she dominates the sonic scene; rapping over house, dubstep, and Middle Eastern beats. The sound is loud and abrasive as melody takes a backseat to fierce bass and drum. Even the reggae-influence “Double Bubble Trouble” is overwhelmed by the electronic break.
M.I.A. speaks out on a wide array of topics, including her detractors, her infamous Super Bowl appearance with Madonna, karma, reincarnation and greed. Her cadence is diffident and seemingly made to call the attention of the masses to what she is proclaiming. Being raw is also part of the scene.
In “Lights,” over a hypnotic backbeat M.I.A. declares that she “used to be a bad girl, now I’m even better,” and in “Know It Ain’t Right,” she states that although she knows the difference between right and wrong she has no qualms with either one.
Matangi is a logical progression to the work already produced by this experimental-pop artist. M.I.A. has created an East-meets-West, urban electronic landscape that is disturbing but beautiful.
- Album: Matangi
- Artist: M.I.A.
- Label: Interscope Records
- Songs: (1) Karmageddon (2) Matangi (3) Only 1 U (4) Warriors (5) Come Walk With me (6) Attention (7) Exodus (8) Bad Girls (9) Boom (skit) (10) Double Bubble Trouble (11) Y.A.L.A. (12) Bring the Noize (13) Lights (14) Know It Ain't Right (15) Sexodus