Over the holidays, Atmosphere released a quasi-LP called Strictly Leakage on their website, for free. No, not Radiohead pay-what-you-want free - just free. Here: see for yourself.
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Many would say that the best art is borne out of angst and pain, and out of the emotional necessity to cathartically express and release anger and hurt. When Mary J. Blige released What’s the 411, her most powerful and memorable ballads were those through which you could feel her pain. Since 1992, we have […]
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In 2006 Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, recording under the name Lupe Fiasco, released one of the year’s freshest and most promising hip-hop records, Food and Liquor. While the album had its rough moments, as a freshmen effort by the then 24 year old rapper it was indicative of a deep well of talent from an intelligent […]
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Bryan “Baby” Williams, AKA the #1 Stunna, AKA Birdman, exploits the big living, MOB lifestyle to the fullest, and as the owner of Cash Money Records, he knows a thing or two about how to do it. Birdman is responsible for bring Lil Wayne into the hip-hop game, and as a diehard Lil Wayne fan I’ve heard my fair share of music from Birdman.
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The new CD by Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab is a prime example of factory-made rap music. While the Wu Tang Clan is not usually considered mainstream because of explicit content that makes its music unplayable on airwaves, the members are definitely not underground.
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Until this week Wu-Tang had not released an album since 2001’s Iron Flag, but getting them together has proven the right move. 8 Diagrams is a new classic in an age when hip-hop is supposedly dead. If anyone could be relied on to bring classical skill back into an album, it is without a doubt […]
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You know who they are. Robert Plant, the former front man for golden-age icons Led Zeppelin, is a household name. Alison Krauss is perhaps slightly less known depending on the circles you move in, but she’s today’s darling of the bluegrass/folk music scene (I first encountered her through the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack […]
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Justin Vernon went into the woods because he wanted to live deliberately. He walked away from civilization and took up residence in a cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin. As winter deepened he lived his days splitting firewood, watching frozen sunrises, and slowly crafting what will surely be one of the most touching albums of the year.
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The White Stripes finally released their latest effort, Icky Thump, on June 19. I held off for a while reviewing this because quite frankly I had no idea what I thought. Frequently this means that given enough listens the album will grow on me and I’ll end up liking it a lot.
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