A Music Blog for Recovering Mix-Tapers
Featuring: Los Destellos, Suda Chuenbarn, El Michels Affair w/Piya Malik, Ocean Wisdom w/The Four Owls, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Anna Fox Rochinski, Yu Su, Calle 13, Cut Chemist, El-P, Curtis Fuller Quartet, Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, Andy Shauf, Donny Hathaway, Angelique Kidjo, and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
Read More"Everything Ishmael Butler has a hand in sounds amazing, and the two new albums from Shabazz Palaces are no exception. I've said it before, but this music is leading the vanguard of hip-hop, pushing the outer edges of what it can be. This group has perfected the formula for blending spaced-out experimentalism with street attitude. Yup, this is rap music, but, damn, it's got very little to do with, say, Gucci Mane, or even Kendrick."
Featuring: Dizzee Rascal, fIREHOSE, Colin Stetson, The Damned, and more.
Read More"Listening to the news this month, it was obvious that something terrible was happening in the Mediterranean. Naturally, the indifference and hostility towards immigrants is not the sole expertise of Europeans, although they definitely seem to have perfected an especially potent formula. I like to imagine that the defiance and strength of this song could be a kind of battle cry for those who actually make it off of one of those death boats."
Featuring: Blake Mills, Mbongwana Star, Punch Brothers, Ava Luna, and more.
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