Latest commentary and reviews on underground Hip Hop, Alternative, and Experimental music
Image from daily.bandcamp.com Trill music is steadily being affixed into Rap’s pervasive fabric all over the internet and the media. The genre isn’t stampeding through the winds by any means. Since the days of Three 6 Mafia, it crept beneath the earth, popping its head out once in a while. Now that Rap music birthed […]
Image from littledragon.bandcamp.com I can’t describe the sound of Little Dragon. I want to categorize them as an Alternative or Pop band, but those are seemingly lazy categorizations. They experiment with the Pop aesthetic, but also extract noises from other musical realms. Careening between the borders of Electronic music and the playful Pop noise, Little […]
Image from consequenceofsound.net Martin Boev: Depression and mental health are themes that are often explored within the depths of music but rarely is it as poignant or brutally honest as on Earl Sweatshirt’s third studio album Some Raps Songs. At 15 tracks, it spans just 25 minutes. It is a brief but heavily dense album which […]
Image from wuntwo.bandcamp.com The winter season of 2014 and 2015 will continue to be one of the most significant seasons of my life. Although the excitement of the Winter vacation flushed through me, the beginning was impeded with a bad ear infection. The pain not of the physical torment, but of the inability to sink […]
Image from complex.com Kaytranada’s show at Concord Music Hall in Chicago was one of the first concerts I’ve ever attended. Kaytranada held such a show that made it seem like a nightclub event rather than a standard concert. His multitude of styles absorbed into a single sound never grows stale, which allows his live performances […]
Image from paris_monster’s Facebook Page Written by Ljubinko Zivkovic Around late November and early December is the season when the album releases quite down, but the singles keep on coming. So, here is a batch of some interesting releases that do not necessarily hit the top of the review lists, but possibly should… 1). Adam […]
Image from boomkat.com I’ve been instilled in my patience, waiting for MC Pinty to release anything for the past three years. After Sub Luna City’s breakthrough in early 2014, members King Krule, Rago Foot, Black Mack, and Jadasea have been slowly but surely exposing some of their own vignettes. Although not officially a part of […]
Image from mndsgn.bandcamp.com Through extraterrestrial voyages, beyond the incomprehensible, comes along the synthetic dance grooves of Parliament-Funkadelic and low-headed prancers of the night clubbers. Now that the world has been flipped upside down and shaken unfathomably once again, sounds like these are sought out and discovered. Mndsgn is a creative relic to cherish for the […]
Image from kinggizzard.bandcamp.com Sound has nearly no boundaries to attend to. The appeasing sound attracts the listener to its otherworldly void. The displeasing sound nullifies the listener’s interests. If the music sounds great, more than half of the music’s purpose has been perfected. The story told, whether there is one or not, is the other […]
Image from xxlmag.com No other geographical reservoir in the world cultivates more sensual or saucy Funk music than the west coast, or more specifically, Los Angelos. The west coast has culled some of the most auspicious tones of Funk, Neo-Soul, and Hip-Hop throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century. During Hip-Hop’s infancy, the west coast implanted […]
