Music
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A total blast from beginning to end. Mash-ups aren’t for everyone (of course, no genre is for everyone), but Pittsburgh DJ Gregg Gillis has produced a mash up record for the ages, perfectly stitchi...read more
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It’s impossible to assess J Dilla’s brilliant Donuts without reflecting on the enormous loss of this gifted 32-year-old MC impresario, who fell victim to his long fight against Lupus days after thi...read more
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Ruff Draft represents an important part in the late J Dilla’s career, a transitional phase linking his production work with the likes of Common, De La Soul and a Tribe Called Quest and his re...read more
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The masterful indie electronica of 2007’s EP Reset would have been a tough act to follow for anyone but Steven Ellison, a.k.a. Flying Lotus, a Los Angeles-based DJ, producer and electronic mu...read more
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Before scoring the Mad Men theme, RJD2 rose to fame in Columbus, Ohio, in the late-‘90s making beats for local hip-hop artists. Since then, through several albums on Definitive Jux and now, h...read more
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Kinda rubbed my eyes upon reading that Plastic Beach is only the third album from Gorillaz, who’ve been around for more than a decade and sort of always seem to be a topic of conversation, wh...read more
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Steven Ellison, the artist known as Flying Lotus, was already widely praised for his 2008 album Los Angeles, but Cosmogramma is a jaw-droppingly awesome leap forward in imagination and creativity. ...read more
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What can we say? What can anyone say about Kanye West in 2010? For one thing, the dude himself says so freakin' much — about himself! Like, where are we supposed to get a word in edgewise? The trut...read more
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This album does not fall under the rule of “remix albums are
superfluous and worse than the originals” because, despite what some people are
saying/writing, it is not a remix album -- at least no...read more
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You may think that four years is a long gap between albums, but take a look at the Beasties' discography: They've always taken their time with new releases. (And this time they had to give MCA a ch...read more
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Remember about ten years ago, when indie-rock labels started signing hip-hop artists? Most people have forgotten that brief period, because it was an utter commercial failure. Expect a different fa...read more
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Hey, the long-awaited collab between hip-hop's (and really, pop music's) two biggest alpha dogs is finally here. What do you wanna know about it? At this point it's possible you might have seen a r...read more
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Who would've thought there'd ever be a hip-hop record featuring production from both El-P (El-Producto!) and Rostam from Vampire Weekend? Put your hands down everybody, come on. What we have here i...read more
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Hope nobody's been taking the Roots for granted lately, you know, given their cultural ubiquity (late-night TV and all that). Because lucky album number 13, Undun, is a bit of a mind-blower: a suit...read more
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Back in hip-hop's old school era -- roughly 1978-1982 -- albums were the
exception and not the rule. Hip-hop became a lot more album-minded with
the rise of its second generation (Run-D.M.C., Who...read more
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Masters of Washington, D.C.'s '80s go-go craze, Trouble Funk
brought early hip-hop (the group was part of Sugarhill Records) to the
dancefloor with deep bass, propulsive rhythms, and party lyrics...read more
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You can tell we dig this record, because you have to be good for us to allow any oddball capitalization scheme in your name. THEESatisfaction is a pair of coolly righteous ladies currently operatin...read more
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Four years after her debut made the songwriter and producer Santi White most famous as a recording artist, Master of My Make-Believe seeks to reinforce Santigold's place atop the global-pop sweepst...read more
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