Belpop.com http://miami.belpop.com Belgian bands, allover the place Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 LA: Go See Spoek Mathambo Live at Afro Funké http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4536 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4536#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:07 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4536 It’s our current cover-man Spoek Mathambo’s first time ever in the United States, and we couldn’t be more excited about his new album, Mshini Wam (for evidence, lightly scour this website). So we beseech our LA friends to go check him out this Thursday at Zanzibar’s Afro Funké night, not just because we want to [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4536 0 Nipsey Hussle, “Monster (Freestyle)” MP3 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4535 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4535#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4535 Nipsey Hussle’s THE MARATHON (all caps): for every 1000 Twitter followers he gains, Nipsey will drop a new song to the internet. It is the 2010 update to rappers leaking a song every day for a month, or the slightly less iCal’d version of Kanye’s weekly GOOD Fridays. Rap is viral people! Appropriately, this is [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4535 0 Suite903: Step Into the Soul Den http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4534 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4534#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4534 Dear Year 2000 and all ten following years, thanks for not disappointing in the evolution of mankind. As expected, technology has become our Achilles heel, allowing us to multitask while performing small miracles, such as Photoshopping another man on the moon between toilet breaks of a Bad Girls Club marathon. But here’s an even bigger [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4534 0 Tent Posts: Interview With Delorean http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4533 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4533#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4533 It feels like Delorean has been touring forever, and they’re so far away from their native country of Spain that we had to wonder how they possibly function on the road. After only three days on a festival diet of elephant ears, corndogs, and a case of heartburn so bad that we almost went to [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4533 0 Young Dro f. Rick Ross, Yung LA, Gucci Mane & TI, “Freeze Me (RMX)” MP3 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4532 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4532#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4532 This is the song that just keeps getting better. The original remix with Gucci and TI was pretty solid, but this new version from DJ Smallz’s I Got The Internet Goin Nuts! Vol. 2 mixtape is basically the Southern Twang All-Stars. While we practice rolling all our words into one, can we just all agree [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4532 0 Sex Beet, “Stay” MP3 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4531 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4531#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4531 A Sex Beet would probably be a good aphrodisiac addition to the veggie family but sadly we don’t think it exists…yet. So we’ll just take Sex Beet for what it is—a London trio looking to shower you with fuzzballs and spew sand in your face. “Stay” is their autumn anthem and newest beast, reminiscent of [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4531 0 Coast to Coast: LA Institution Family Bookstore’s Thirty Days NY http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4530 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4530#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4530 Though our current month has thirty days, it will not be quite as awesome when compared to April, when the Los Angeles-based Family Bookstore took over an empty storefront in Tribeca for a slew of night-after-night concerts, light shows and film screenings. We were able to visit the space with Family owners David Jacob Kramer [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4530 0 FADER x Fania: Willie Colón, “Aguanile (Toy Selectah RMX)” http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4529 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4529#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4529 As previously announced, The FADER is embarking on a yearlong remix project with the legendary Latin label Fania, wherein we enlist some of our favorite musicians to reinterpret classics from their celebrated catalog. Today, we’re thrilled to premiere the first in the series, for which Monterrey-based DJ/producer Toy Selectah has envisioned Willie Colón’s haunting salsa [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4529 0 Tent Posts: Bumbershoot, Day 3 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4528 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4528#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4528 One of the risks of running a festival like Bumbershoot, especially one with this year’s lineup, which trafficked heavily in nostalgia, is that the bands won’t be as good as any of us remember. This was probably a problem at some of the shows, but thankfully it’s one we managed to avoid.

Here is something we [...]

]]> http://miami.belpop.com/?feed=rss2&p=4528 0 Belle & Sebastian, “Write About Love” MP3 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4527 http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4527#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:04 +0000 Klaas http://miami.belpop.com/?p=4527 This is the rain storm that happens while the sun is still shining. Belle and Sebastian manage to make upbeat lamentations about things that are generally a much sadder affair (can anyone say “Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying”?). They might just outdo themselves on “Write About Love,” with lyrics about unrequited crushing and [...]

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