Our look at the closing lines of the biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Everything Is Borrowed, the new album from the newly contemplative UK MC Mike Skinner’s proejct The Streets:
This video for the Streets’ new single, “The Escapist,” was, according to uploader “The Beats” (a.k.a. Mike Skinner a.k.a. the Streets himself), made “under the radar of the label and done totally for us by us on a shoe string. More »
Extremely British MC Mike Skinner, a.k.a. The Streets, walked from Dover, England to the south coast of France/paid homage to Michael Palin for the video for “The Escapist.” Couldn’t he have just shown up to a courtroom as a sassy Cardinal Richelieu impersonator or something? More »
Extremely British MC Mike Skinner, a.k.a. The Streets, walked from Dover, England to the south coast of France/paid homage to Michael Palin for the video for “The Escapist.” Couldn’t he have just shown up to a courtroom as a sassy Cardinal Richelieu impersonator or something? More »
Because he sounds like a Cockney head trauma victim haltingly reading the lyrics off a teleprompter as he struggles to force his tissue-thin vocal range through a tuneless, pitch-fucked, dare-you-to-get-through-it version of Elton John’s “Your Song” that’s streaming on his MySpace page and was… More »