Cyberpunk

Common, 'Universal Mind Control' (G.O.O.D. Music/Geffen) (Spin)

2 Dec 2008

On his eighth album, Common turns back the hip-hop clock to the days of electro, teaming up with Pharrell Williams, who comes off like a modern-day version of mid-'80s studio whizzes Mantronix. On the frantic, Roland 808–charged title track, the Windy City MC plays the streetwise machine man, with lyrics ("Chicks exotic, mix hypnotic / Superhero boy, I'm bionic") that read like cut-ups of ...

Thrilling philosophy (The Star)

30 Nov 2008

An alpha-geek plumbs the depths of philosophic thought while spinning a darn good yarn.

Littlest Londonist: Hampstead And Area (Londonist)

28 Nov 2008

For our very first Littlest Londonist, we meander to the most salubrious of localities - that of Hampstead and Belsize Park. Think of it as the Mercedes of the Littlest Londonist canon, if you will. With wide, tree-lined streets, celebrity inhabitants and a heath so bursting with flora and fauna that it makes the London Wetlands Centre look like a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Hampstead ...