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Posted on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 14:44 in underground hip-hop
While he touches upon the same socially conscious topics labelmate Mr. Lif does, C-Rayz Walz comes from a refreshingly more personal and humble angle. Family, home life, and the day-to-day struggle are topics that show up on Ravipops, an album title ...
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Posted on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 11:02 in underground hip-hop
Despite reams of online hype and commercial anticipation, the release of the Cool Kids' debut EP still radiated sonic excitement, a blast at once sharp, funny, and intimate. Here, after all, is a triumph of absolute aestheticism. The name fulfills it...
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Posted on Sunday December 7th, 2008 at 17:35 in punk
For Off White, James Chance, a veteran of New York's avant-garde no wave scene, recast his seminal band the Contortions as a parody of a soul band, albeit one incorporating the rhythms of disco and funk rather than R&B. Thus, Chance became James ...
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Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 in world, electronic tango
In lieu of a post card, here's a little musical greeting from my current place of residence, Buenos Aires. This compilation by Random Records features the usual suspects of the vibrant electronic tango scene, Gotan Project, Tanghetto, and Otros ...
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Posted on Sunday November 23rd, 2008 at 09:00 in indie
One of the lesser known albums of the Canadian duo David Lester and Jean Smith, but probably my favorite. Lester is at his best here, with artfully improvised distorted guitar work, accompanied by Smith's trademark voice that somehow manages to be bo...
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Posted on Saturday November 22nd, 2008 at 14:09 in punk
Originally released by Factory Records in 1982, this 1999 re-issue adds the 1981 two track EP, "Live On A Hot August Night", which incidentally is not live at all, and the decidedly improvised single "Sexus". This ambitious and so...
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