Alex Dwyer's Off The Books columns returns with a look at Jooyoung Lee's new, "Blowin' Up."
Get to know the man who would change culture forever, Robert Beck a.k.a. Iceberg Slim
| Off The Books: Check The Technique Vol. 2 – More Liner Notes For Hip-Hop Junkies by Brian Coleman | August 24, 2015 |
The sequel to Brian Coleman's legendary hip-hop text, "Check the Technique."
| Off The Books: “Big Machine” by Victor LaValle | May 12, 2015 |
Off the Books returns with Harold Stallworth, who recommends checking out the alternatively bleak and hilarious, "Big Machine."
| Off The Books: “Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man”by Marcus Baram | January 23, 2015 |
Alex Dwyer reads another book on Gil Scott-Heron to disheartening results
| Off The Books: Who We Be: The Colorization of America by Jeff Chang | January 14, 2015 |
Alex Dwyer reviews the latest from "Can't Stop Won't Stop" author Jeff Chang. who, like most, summons DMX to understand race in America.
| Off the Books: “I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon” by Toure | October 14, 2014 |
Alex Dwyer reviews The Purple One as experienced by Toure, an apparent Old Testament stan
| Off The Books: “For Whom the Cowbell Tolls: 25 Years of Paul’s Boutique” by Dan LeRoy and Peter Relic | October 6, 2014 |
A quarter of a century after the genius of "Paul's Boutique", Alex Dwyer serves as our literary eggman
| Off The Books #6: “Miles” By Miles Davis | May 21, 2014 |
If not wearing pants is cool, you can call Dweez Miles Davis. “I love women. I never needed any help or ever had any trouble finding women. I just like to be with them, talking and shit like that. But I never have messed with a musician’s girlfriend. Never. Even if she hadn’t been with […]
Dweez hasn’t stopped listening to Hotter Than July since July. “It was hot, unnaturally so. You dig? The kind of heat that changes your mood and your attitude. A nondiscriminating hope-to-God-some-cold-beer’s-waiting-that-I-can-bathe-in hot. Like a combination microwave and a dame with big tits on Spanish Fly rubbing up against you like she wants to melt you […]
