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Das Racist is a rap group based in Brooklyn, comprised of two rappers, Himanshu Suri, Kool A.D., and their hype man, Dap. Trying to talk to them is difficult, because they are usually talking to each other in pop culture references stacked upon sarcasm and inside jokes. In this way, their normal conversation is very [...]

“If the process of creating is stimulating then everything is beautiful.”
So reads the brief last.fm bio on Swedish pop/rock act, The Eyeshades. It’s a point of view that speaks to their music; bright, innocent, carefree, the quest for artistic expression seemingly more rewarding than the actual end product. Their tracks are simple, but have a [...]

Freddie Gibbs rhymes about his past; hustling through the struggles of day-to-day life in the high-crime, high-unemployment industrial city of Gary, Indiana. Now Gibbs lives in LA where the experiences of back then speak loudly with messages for right now.
You better already have his Str8 Killa No Filla mixtape, but if not you can grab [...]

It’s a bit surprising to see a pop figure like MC Hammer becoming mythologized over the last couple of years, but like any celebrity who lived fast and then faded away, we always tend to remember the most glamorous and flashy elements of their career. And so, it has come to this. “MC Hammer”, the [...]

Swedish producer Erik L is a sick master of soulful future beats. His compositions listen like a stack of funk records spliced, looped, slowed down and presented as sound collages from the far side of hip-hop. Atmospheric sounds echo the flow of guest rhymes across Northern Connection, Erik L’s recent collaboration with Detroit producer Illingsworth. [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat. The premise is simple, we’ve asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can [...]

Lying somewhere in a triangulation between Bob Dylan, The Tallest Man On Earth and Jarvis Cocker is I Am Kloot. The trio has been creating lush anglo-indie for almost a decade now and there newest album Sky At Night, released today, is probably their best to date. Bringing to mind the above mentioned artists and [...]

Local hip-hop faves BBU and DJ Avi Sic join storied legends Public Enemy Saturday, June 26 at Congress Theater and they’re giving away lots of free tickets HERE. I’ve seen the BBU guys live too many times to count now and their energy is undeniable. Check out Jams Dean’s interview with the group and their [...]