UK Beat alchemist, Mute Speaker, is arguably the first contender for album of the year. “Take yourself Apart,” an anarchic collage of Funkadelic’s ‘Maggot Brain’, ‘Boot Camp Click’s boom-bap, and Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ all held in place in Mute Speaker’s rudie-in-outerspace, dub soundscape. Featuring a litany of young, hungry MC’s …
Read More »Jabee,”Dreams”
As hip hop tries to untangle itself from the ‘Hair Metal’ phase, new voices like Oklahoma City rapper Jabee bring the beat back to basics. This Cadence-produced single ‘Dreams’, comes from the new album ‘Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt’. The song opens gently with a haunting piano that floats …
Read More »Tope, “Take Your Time”
Portland native Tope, delivers a heartfelt ode to Neo-Soul Priestess Erykah Badu on “Take Your Time”. Smokey, late-night grooves, are punctuated by the silky flow of his vocals and crowned beautifully by the bluer than blue jazz outro of Jill Scott trumpeter, Farnell Newton. I implore you, check out Tope’s …
Read More »Eshe,”Love sick”
Former “Arrested Development” member Eshe, drops her first solo single, “Love sick.” This delicious slice of summer breezy, hot-buttered soul, will melt the ice off your frozen heart in the dead of winter.
Read More »Phil’s Monday Pick: LOGAN P. MCCOY, “BLACK MORNING”
Planet of Brooklyn’s Logan P. McCoy’s “Black Morning,” builds into the perfect Blaxploitation theme, is promptly deconstructed and resurrected as dark, cyber-punk Funkadelic hip hop. Yes, 2014 is off to a great start. video: LOGAN P. MCCOY, “BLACK MORNING” directed by Dylan Verrechia | beat produced by Logan P. McCoy grab …
Read More »Saying Goodbye to Lou Reed
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. – Saul Bellow On October 27, we lost Lou Reed. As the internet lit up with shock and then sadness, I felt numb. “These are Coptic times” to paraphrase Bad Brains. Cynicism reigns supreme. Here I am a struggling writer …
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