At a time in Hip Hop where every mainstream artist wants a concept album, The Roots have been engineering thematic offerings since Things Fall Apart. It seems that the busier the Philadelphia band becomes, the more creative they get. How I Got Over represents The Roots’ first album recorded almost entirely during their nightly role [...]
There’s a time during Juvenile’s latest effort, Beast Mode, when he says “Everything’s back on track,” promising that his career is far from over. The line comes on “Lights, Camera, Action,” the album’s last song. Consisting of only 11 songs, by the time we get to said last cut, it’s clear that everything is not [...]
Not to start this review off on a negative note, but its high time Hip-Hop decided to move on without Andre 3000. Sure, we all want dude back, but every time we mention Big Boi, there has to be some mention of his eccentric rap partner. (See?) Well, it simply isn’t fair, especially when it [...]
Much has been said about Nas and Damian Marley since they announced their collaborative endeavor as Distant Relatives. While much of it was praise in anticipation, expectations grew to nearly unattainable heights. Both Nas and Jr. Gong are no strangers to this – both sons of famous musicians, both with hits in their history. Each [...]
What do you get when you throw 4 musicians who’ve worked with everyone from Kelly Clarkson to Machina and 1 American Idol finalist into a recording booth? Musical genius, apparently. Whether you call it beginner’s luck or think it’s sign of a budding rock supergroup, We Are the Fallen’s debut album “Tear the World Down” [...]
With a spliff in rotation and their middle fingers in the air towards the DEA, west coast legends Cypress Hill have returned after a six-year hiatus with their eighth studio album entitled Rise Up. Finally detached from the Ruffhouse/Columbia/Sony umbrella, it seems as if Cypress has taken the opportunity that the relocation of their recording [...]
It’s currently raining in Los Angeles, but that isn’t exactly what this city is known for. In general, Los Angeles is “known for the surf and shine,” as Murs points out on “The Problem Is,” the first single off of his latest album, Fornever, with 9th Wonder. Yes, it’s the duo yet again, at it [...]
Photo: Tullberg/Getty This morning, Eminem killed Relapse 2. But by the afternoon, he explained his puzzling tweet (”There is no Relapse 2“) by announcing he’s finishing up work on another new album titled Recovery. The follow-up to his 2009 comeback LP Relapse will be released on June 22nd, just over a year after its predecessor [...]
Photo: Polk/Getty “There is no Relapse 2,” Eminem wrote on Twitter in the wee hours of this morning, effectively putting to rest any chance that the promised sequel to his 2009 comeback album Relapse will be released in the near future — if ever. The rapper didn’t indicate whether another fresh album would replace the [...]
Before MGMT’s second album Congratulations even hit stores, it was being hailed as the Most Polarizing Album of 2010. The LP’s aesthetic is a galaxy away from the electro-pop of Oracular Spectacular’s hits “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” — Congratulations finds Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden mining late-’60s psychedelic and folk rock for a nine-track [...]
This past December, former Guns n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan was having dinner with Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. “He was kind of bummed,” says McKagan. “He had just heard that [original Jane’s Addiction bassist] Eric Avery was leaving the band.” McKagan offered to jam with Jane’s at Farrell’s home studio and within weeks was [...]
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