This compilation features 15 cuts from a time span of several years in Nigeria’s musical history. It was a time when Phonodisk, a record label looking to engineer hits, started promoting Nigerian bands playing with some sounds that were big in the West at the time: disco and funk.
This video is a collaborative review with the good guys over at Dead End Hip Hop. Here’s the text they popped in the description box: “We couldn’t hook up with The Needle Drop and not do an album review. Brooklyn MC Theophilus London drops his debut album a
While Hudson Mohawke’s new EP isn’t flashy, detailed, or technically impressive, I still have a lot of fun listening to it. For lack of a better word, I think what actually attracts me to the instrumentals on this thing is that they sound, well, dorky! WATCH THE VIDEO
Despite a bit of genre-hopping, Machinedrum’s latest album, Room(s), comes together quite nicely. There are moments tracks influenced by the world of glitchy, which this guy has always had a soft spot for. But Machinedrum is very good about appealing to the winds of change whenever they’re
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s debut full-length surprised me in some places, but underwhelmed in others. I love how effortlessly these guys pull together a fun and bouncy salute to the world of 60s rock and pop. It sounds as fresh as it does retro. Where this album really ended up
Though Blackenedwhite isn’t perfect, it’s definitely a likeable release from this OFWGKTA-affiliated duo. With Hodgy Beats on the mic and Left Brain building the beats, the tracks here offer up a series of fantasy raps about girls, weed, and guns. This is by no means an mind-blower of
Little Dragon’s third album comes after a move toward accessibility on 2009’s machine dreams, but doesn’t go further down that path. Making things simpler to gain a wider audience just seems like something a band in Little Dragons’ shoes would do, though. They’ve had plenty of
If the rock history books stay accurate, Brooklyn’s They Might Be Giants will go down as being one of the most idiosyncratic bands of all-time–even if that idiosyncrasy seems to wane a little bit on Join Us. This record isn’t completely devoid of fun or flavor. The
From the forthcoming M83 album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, the track “Midnight City” is a super-sized pop song with synthetic mountains majesty. It’s structured simply, but that doesn’t stop the sounds and energy on this thing from becoming overwhelming. So overwhelming, that dancing must occur. Dance. Please.
On the second track to drop from this collaboration between Kanye West and Jay-Z, we get an Otis Redding sample, an answer as to who invented swag, and a whole lotta hot air. Sure, Kanye West and Jay-Z are notorious for their bragging skills. But when they’re together, those
