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Verbal Kent, Red Pill & Apollo Brown – Ugly Heroes (Album Review)

Emcee’s Verbal Kent and Red Pill are the Ugly Heroes alongside producer Apollo Brown on Mello Music Group’s latest release. Continue Reading

Dirty Art Club – Vermillion (Album Review)

Rejoice. North Carolina’s Dirty Art Club are back. Vermillion picks up the thread left dangling by last years Hexes although it seems that Matt Cagle and Madwreck are slightly happier than last we heard from them. Continue Reading

Trebles and Blues – From My Father (Album Review)

In From My Father, his second full-length, L.A. instrumental hip-hop artist Trebles and Blues samples musicians who are far more obscure than the likes of The Stylistics and Natasha Bedingfield, whose cuts he chopped up in the jazzy 2011 gem The Blue Note. This time, Trebles has turned to his father’s collection of ’70s and

Zavala – ANXstrumentals (Album Review)

Zavala, the producer-half of Dark Time Sunshine alongside emcee Onry Ozzborn, follows up the release of their second LP from last year with its instrumental version. For fans of the Chicagoan beat composers unorthodox approach to Hip-Hop, it’s an absolute feast for the ears. Continue Reading

Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge – Twelve Reasons To Die (Album Review)

I love it when the worlds of film score music and hip-hop collide. Producer and avid crate digger Adrian Younge first came to my attention as a film composer, when he–with the help of both another avid crate digger, music supervisor David Hollander, and the various sampleworthy ’70s library music cues Hollander unearthed–musically brought to

Bambu – The Lean Sessions (EP Review)

Any time the Beatrock label drops an EP or full-length from L.A. rapper/activist Bambu, it’s a must-listen, not just because Bambu is one of the best conscious rappers around, but because he’s chosen to retire from recording full-lengths to spend more time raising his son. “I’ll probably put out songs on the Internet here and

The Doppelgangaz – HARK (Album Review)

If you’re like me and you feel like present-day hip-hop could use a little more boom bap (I don’t understand listeners who think the boom bap sound is dated because it never went away), Hark, the third album by New York’s The Doppelgangaz, will satisfy your boom bap quotient. In this concise album (clocking in