Four and a half hours total, I finally finished up an interview with Nomar Slevik, an emcee/producer from Maine. If you read my interview with DJ Bizkid, you might remember the brief mention about the mixtape that they did together, “DJ Bizkid Meets Nomar Slevik: The Mixtape“. His latest release, “Stonehenge Diaries” (SIQ Records), was made with Ame One. Nomar is constantly dropping project after project (his discography is long!) One might even question the amount of sleep he gets, haha. He’s worked with other artists such as: Moshe, Id Obelus, Brzowski, Th’Mole, Myn Dwun, S.L.A.P., Marcelo, etc. Alright, let’s get into the interview…

Tiffology: Is Nomar Slevik your real name? And if not, how did you come up with it?

Nomar Slevik: It is not my real name… and to be honest, I don’t have a good answer of how I came up with it. I used to work at a television station in Portland, ME. Extreme Sports steez, and I was the DVD duplicator, web type stuff and I started writing a little humor newsletter. I would use the name Nomar Slevik as the author to some of my articles… just made it up one day.

[Read More...]

Crayon Beats was hit up with an email from the lovely Charlie Bones. She asked if we’d consider reviewing her photography on our site, and we gladly accepted. Below are a few photos from her online portfolio, along with mini reviews. Hope you enjoy, and be sure to check out more at her Flickr.

Other than my half-ass attempt of taking a photography class in Sophomore year of high school, I don’t have much knowledge of the photography realm – besides what I use on my digital camera. But I can still point out what I like and dislike, right? Right.
[Read More...]

About a year ago, when I first heard that Tim Burton was going to make an “Alice In Wonderland” film, I got happy. Tim Burton is a master, and I have loved everything he’s done. Then today, I saw pictures of the characters and scenery from the said movie. Talk about levels of excitement being raised. I’m not going to say much, other than show you the pictures that I saw.

[Read More...]

Love live instrument groups? Me too. El Michels Affair is a funk/soul group from Brooklyn. EMA was started in 2001 by Leon Michels (also the co-founder of the label, Truth & Soul). He teamed up with a former band mate from the Mighty Imperials, Nick Movshon, and the two began recording stage sessions for hours. In time, the band expanded into a ten-piece (?) live group. Group members: Leon Michaels on saxophone, flute, bass, guitar, piano and vibes. Nick Movshon on bass and drums. Homer Steinweiss on drums. Sean Solomon and Thomas Brenneck on guitars. Todd Simon and Michael Leonhart on trumpets. Toby Pazner on the keys. And last, Aaron Johnson and Ben Solomon on trombones.

I’m going to go on about the stuff that they do and have done with Wu-Tang. [Read More...]

So last night, some friends and I made last minute plans to see Year One. It wasn’t as funny as I expected but I did LOL at most parts. Of course the story recounts events from the Bible, but they’re a little crazy considering it’s from Jack Black’s character ‘Zed”s point of view. Typical of Jack Black, there was a lot of wild eyed screaming, murmuring, crazy hand gestures and eyebrow rolls while Micheal Cera’s character “Oh” gave much of the cute-but-awkward, smart alec, doe eyed stare.

[Read More...]

That’s right! Mos Def is a MF Doom fan. “He rhymes as weird as I feel…” Check out this video of Mos Def droppin’ verses from Doom’s “MM…Food” album. This whole video (from Frolab) makes me smile a lot, because…

1. Mos Def’s voice.
2. All the laughter from Mos Def and behind-camera people.
3. MF Doom lyrics.
[Read More...]

Once I heard that there was going to be a DJ Hero game (by Activision), I got a bit excited. This could be really fun, and I could finally bring out the turntablist within me… through a video game. Hahaha. DJ Hero will feature more than 100 individual tracks transformed into more than 80 exclusive, original mixes by well-known DJs including: DJ Shadow (in-game character), DJ AM (in-game character), DJ Z-Trip (in-game character), Cut Chemist, and more.

[Read More...]

So yeah, Wax and EOM premiered their new PV for “Music and Liquor” , the second single form the album Liquid Courage [CD Baby]. I gotta say, this video is dope. The visual storytelling compliments Wax’s lyrics perfectly. [Read More...]