Singer-songwriter and rhymer Maimouna Youssef (aka Mumu Fresh) first made national waves by crooning the unsettled hook on The Roots’ banger “Don’t Feel Right” off Game Theory (2006). […]
REVIEW: J Scienide – The Actual Heat
Being from Philly, one of the dopest rhymes I ever heard was when Rakim spit “It ain’t where you’re from it’s where you’re at.” For the simple fact […]
Is Kendrick Lamar’s Damn Worth A Damn?
I’m old… The summer of 1992, my hood in Philly was so crazy I remember praying to God to just let me live long enough to get to […]
MUSIC: Floating Points – 'For Marmish Part II'
The week’s halfway over and Floating Points has dropped off a gift in the form of a new track for those trudging through the work week. “For Marmish Part II,” the […]
REVIEW: BØRNS – Dopamine
I’ll admit it: the first time I heard BØRNS’ breakthrough EP Candy (and then the first 17,000 times I heard the near-perfect “Electric Love” scoring that Hulu commercial), […]
REVIEW: Big Grams
It’s the kind of collaboration that sends music bloggers into fits of keyboard-mashing ecstasy: Big Boi of Outkast teaming with indie electro-pop outfit Phantogram for an EP under […]
REVIEW: The Foreign Exchange – Tales from the Land of Milk and Honey
The Foreign Exchange, a collaboration birthed through Okayplayer’s message boards, first showcased the unlikely pairing of Phonte Coleman (Little Brother) and Dutch DJ Nicolay on 2004’s eclectic Connected. […]
LIVE: Still Trill? What the Next Generation Thinks About the Trillectro Music Festival
[Photo by Carrie Epps] Congrats, Trillectro Music Festival! With your third annual showing on Saturday, you’ve officially made it past your terrible twos! But you know what that […]
LIVE: Liam Bailey At Bardot Hollywood [LA]
Some argue that weekends are for beginners. Ostensible proof of this theory is the weekly School Night party and showcase held at Hollywood’s Bardot, the upstairs of Avalon, […]
Review: Vittoria Fleet- Acht LP
I was pretty amazed when I first heard the new LP from Vittoria Fleet. The album was released on April 29th on Oakland based n5MD Records. Vittoria Fleet […]