Directed by my man Ian Pons Jewell and staring my cousin Sam, the video for Chemo’s “Tennis Season” is in a word, mental. Enjoy!

An advanced degree in “material culture” has some disadvantages. It turns one into an “archivist,” or more sadly a pack rat.

The antiquarian urge to preserve the past… and remnants of my youth… results in boxes and boxes of unfiltered crap. I unearthed one of these boxes this weekend (while in DC) and found a small cache of music t-shirts. They range in graphic quality and in genre. Some are quite good. Some, as you’ll find, border on the embarrassing.

Enjoy.

R. Kelly as “Mr. Showbiz” from The Light It Up Tour.

Pause.

Rawkus promotional t-shirt for Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs.

Def Jux promotional t-shirt for Murs The End of the Beginning.

Mark under – Why do I own this?

This was my JAM for several years of Prep School. Exactly what you’d expect right?

I’ll take this vision of Chicago over Lupe, Kanye, and the Cool Kids any day. With a pizza from Home Run Inn.

One of my favorite regular reads is jazz blog Bop & Beyond. Highly recommended for quality pieces on a great era of jazz, and as the title suggests items beyond.

Today’s entry features a video of Sonny Rollins talking about when he recorded Mr. Coltrane. Beyond, he talks about the tradition of tenor battles. Filmed in 2007, and still fantastic viewing.

Be sure to check out Bop & Beyond regularly.