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Chicago MC Mick Jenkins drops a verbose and water-themed mixtape.
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Husky-voiced Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins drops a moving and metaphorical video for his upcoming project titled The Water[s]. It’s officially out August 12th. “Jazz” features a beautiful, minimal beat that’s guided by what I think are some gleaming vibraphone melodies. I love the way the chorus swells,
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https://soundcloud.com/immune-recordings/sets/cleared-drown/s-xINig In 2009 Steven Hess and Michael Vallera, two of the figureheads of Chicago’s experimental music underground, formed the duo Cleared. They conceived of a sort of trilogy, starting with their 2011 self-titled debut, continuing with 2012’s Breaking Day, and now finishing
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https://soundcloud.com/mickjenkinsmusic/mick-jenkins-who-else-prod-tj-osinulu Mick Jenkins has really been impressing lately, namely with his last video for the macabre “Martyrs,” and now with his new single “Who Else.” The man is proving to be a hell of a wordsmith (“Piers Morgan my peers now”!) and his lyrics retain a
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Illinois rapper Lil Herb seems to be the hotly anticipated lyrical messiah to come out of the currently hot Chicago drill scene.
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Murmur’s self-titled sophomore album is a impressively executed fusion of black metal and progressive rock.
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Stream: Murmur – “Bull of Crete” Chicago’s Murmur is making some of the strangest, most exciting metal music today. The quartet is set drop its self-titled sophomore album next week, and above, you can stream its nine-minute-long second track, “Bull of Crete.” The playing on this multi-phased piece is freaking
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Mick Jenkins rides a chiming instrumental on new single “Leonidas,” the third glimpse we’ve been given of his latest full-length effort The Water[s], due out in February. With this new track, as well as that macabre music video for “Martyrs” covered last week, this is a project to
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Damn, this is one macabre video. Nooses, snippets of an interview with a convicted murderer, and lines like “I could see the cherry stems in the fucking street” pervade this latest offering from Chicago MC Mick Jenkins. His decision to sample Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” is certainly justified. Watch
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Doomed Boys (previously Super Minotaur) is a Chicagoan collective of writers, illustrators, and musicians whose art tends to go in an alluringly scuzzy direction. This can be seen in the few drawings they’ve posted to their Facebook, as well as in these two most recent songs they’ve produced.
