Hip Hop Now
Here’s five acts doing their thing in the first installment of Hip Hop Now. Chicago rapper Saba‘s new record Care For Me features Chance …
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Superorganism
Superorganism Domino Records & Hostess Entertainment March 2 2018 Produced by Superorganism Multi-headed collective Superorganism has a nowish electricity. On their self titled debut …
A Year in Music
When she couldn’t talk, she might sing if I played the right song from a Bluetooth speaker I kept bedside. She remembered lyrics on …
Friday On Elm Street
One Friday On Elm Street two of your favorite rapper’s favorite rappers decided to get together and frighten the streets. Jadakiss, aka Jason Voorhees, …
Beck Colors Inside the Lines
Colors Beck Produced by Beck and Greg Kurstin 2017 Just as Beck was riding quietly into the horizon, 2014’s Morning Phase won the Grammy …
Is Roger Waters Too Old to Rock?
Age hasn’t affected Waters in the same way it has, say, Paul McCartney or Woody Allen, whose best work is far behind them. Waters …
Life Imagined / Everything Turned to Color
Life Imagined Everything Turned to Color Produced by Blake Morgan 2017 Brooklyn based Everything Turned to Color’s new record Life Imagined is a perfect …
Soft Sounds From Another Planet / Japanese Breakfast
Soft Sounds From Another Planet Japanese Breakfast Produced by Craig Hendrix and Michelle Zauner Dead Oceans, 2017 Japanese Breakfast’s Psychopomp was a deep, introspective cocktail …
Heavy Rotation – New Music
1. Man of War / Radiohead The best unreleased song from the remastered OK Computer album gets a masterfully edited video. 2. The Story …
JAY-Z: 4:44
The numbers of the moment may be 4:44 but it only took Jay-Z 36 minutes to shake up the world. That precious time was …
Prodigy – The H.N.I.C.
Prodigy, a,k.a Albert Johnson, ½ of the rap duo Mobb Deep has passed away today as a result of complications from sickle cell anemia. …
Roger Waters Releases Something Like a Pink Floyd Record
Is This The Life We Really Want? Roger Waters 2017 Columbia Records Produced by Nigel Godrich At 73, Roger Waters has a catalog of …
Should You Buy Sgt. Pepper’s Again?
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Deluxe Edition – 2017 Capitol Records Several anniversary editions of the 1967 masterpiece Sgt. Pepper’s …
Gen X Flashback
Under the Milky Way – The Church I’m a little embarrassed to say that this and “Reptile” are the only Church songs I really know. …
Havana, Cuba
The beautiful city of Havana, which is located in the largest Caribbean island of Cuba, is ready and waiting to meet their not so distant …
5 Great Morphine Tracks
There’s been some great trios in rock. Mainstream acts like Cream, The Police, Rush, and cult favorites like Primus and Hüsker Dü made their bones on the backs of three …
RAEKWON – THE WILD
The Wild by Raekwon has our heads nodding out the gate with the lead track “This Is What It Comes Too“. The wolf is …
Everything Turned to Color at Rockwood
I don’t wanna make this about politics, but after the election, things looked pretty bleak in New York City. Long faces on the subway. …
The Best Record Paul McCartney Wouldn’t Make
Paul McCartney – Flowers in the Dirt (Remastered) Parlophone March 2017 In 1989 Paul McCartney released Flowers in the Dirt, a record I played …
“Don’t worry if I write rhymes, I write checks”
The following is an excerpt from the book You Made It a Hot Line; The most influential lines in hip hop. The names are …