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Open Mike Eagle & Paul White –“Check To Check”
LA spitter Open Mike Eagle has a smooth flow that shifts constantly to fit a funky/electro/boom-bap meld. Last year's underrated Raps For When It's Just You And The Abyss was very dope, seamlessly...
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Hit-Boy –“TD Celebration” (Feat. Rich Tha Kid & Donnie Trumpet)
Hit-Boy came up off of some hard-hitting, negative-space beats that landed on some high-profile projects like Watch The Throne, but dude is hungry and has been looking to be taken seriously as a rapper...
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David Bowie Song Featured In Audi Super Bowl Commercial
Clearly, if you're a Super Bowl commercials person, then you might want to stay away from our Commercial Appeal section this week to avoid spoilers, but music and the Super Bowl are intersecting now...
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Donuts Turns 10
There's a lot to break down on the massive hip-hop production pillar known as Donuts. In terms of emotion, technique, and legacy this thing is beastly. A 130-page book was written on it! So let's begin...
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Holy Ghost! –“Crime Cutz” Video
It's nice to have Brooklyn disco dudes Holy Ghost! in full promo mode. A few days ago they shared a teaser for their single "Crime Cutz" and today they've paired the whole funky thing with a matching...
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Moderat –“Reminder”
Berlin-based smart-thump trio Moderat represent a melding of the stuttering rhythms of Modeselektor and evocative deep-house of Apparat. On their debut album and sophomore effort II their disparate...
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Lontalius –“It’s Not Love”
Eddie Johnston, better known as Lontalius, is a New Zealand teen who graduated from YouTube covers to a deal with Partisan Records. He has earned some high profile fans like Lorde and Troye Sivan, and...
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Flatbush Zombies –“Bounce”
Brooklyn acid rap trio Flatbush Zombies are back and in full promo mode for their upcoming debut LP 3001: A Laced Odyssey. After a two-year hiatus since their collab EP with fellow Flatbush brethren...
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Smoke DZA –“Morals” (Feat. Snoop Dogg)
I tend to get kind of nervous whenever rappers use a biblical reference to title their works because they rarely live up to the lofty expectation the name aspires to. Harlem traditionalist Smoke DZA...
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Official Bob Marley Brand Cannabis Launches Today
The two things I remember most from my trip to Jamaica are Bob Marley and weed because both were ubiquitous. I know it may seem like a cliché or stereotypical view, but Marley is truly all over murals...
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Meek Mill Placed On 90-Day House Arrest
Amid his ongoing beef with Drake (which bafflingly continues even though Drake clearly won), Meek Mill has had some more important matters to deal with. According to The FADER, a Philadelphia judge...
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Ladada –“New Psych” (Stereogum Premiere)
Ladada is one of two projects from Virginia Beach musician Josiah Schlater. He is a very versatile artist, hence the two projects, but perhaps more of a testament to his variability is the disparity in...
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Hospital Ships –“All In Time” (Stereogum Premiere)
Hospital Ships is Jordan Geiger. He earned Band To Watch honors way back in 2008 and has experienced many evolutions since. The band is set to return after a three-year hiatus with The Past Is Not A...
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Watch The Harlem Globetrotters Interrupt Tweedy’s Adele Cover
The Harlem Globetrotters have been doing their thing for almost 100 years now. There aren't too many places where a visit from the team would be met with disappointment or annoyance -- including the El...
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Keeping Up With The Knowleses: Beyoncé And Solange’s Differing Approaches To...
Beyoncé was Queen Bey last night, as usual. "Formation" took over the Super Bowl halftime performance, making professional entertainers Bruno Mars and Chris Martin look amateurish in the process....
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Son Lux –“Undone” Video
Son Lux, aka Ryan Lott, is a classically trained electro artist who has quite the talent for evocative music videos. We've given him best video of the week honors a few times, most recently for "You...
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Kool Herc’s Old Block To Be Named Hip-Hop Boulevard
Hip-hop has deep roots in NYC. The genre traversed all of the boroughs before stretching nationally and now globally as it does today, but it's agreed upon that it all started in the Bronx. There have...
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With Lions x Teri Gender Bender x Omar Rodríguez López –“I Feel You” (Depeche...
Omar Rodríguez-López's At The Drive In recently announced a tour and new music. Mexican garage punk duo Le Butcherettes will be join ATDI on their tour, and Teri Gender Bender is one half of that duo....
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Sales –“Jamz”
Florida duo Sales are set to release their upcoming debut LP later this year, but we haven't heard from them since last fall's one-off "Big Sis." Today, they offer the first taste of their album with...
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Sun Seeker –“Georgia Dust” Video
Nashville blue-ribbon chamber-pop quartet Sun Seeker are the newest signees to Third Man Records. By way of introduction, they dropped the 7" single "Georgia Dust" b/w "No One Knows." The A-side is a...
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