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.
Lil B is one of the Internet’s most confusing personalities. When should you take him seriously? When shouldn’t you? Is he really that “terrible” of a rapper. I talked about him for over twenty freaking minutes, and I still have questions. Look, I’m curious. I can’t
MP3 Word and Number is a Chicago duo that’s been at it for four years, and its latest album is Hioea. That release and everything prior to it is up for streaming and downloading on this website. “Z” is one of ten songs to come off Hioea, and I
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
A video of young, Canadian jazz fusion trio BADBADNOTGOOD covering the Flying Lotus track “Camel,” which is a cut off my favorite Flying Lotus album, Los Angeles. I can’t wait ’til these guys start dropping s’more original material. BBNG also has a new EP out, featuring medleys of
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
A new video for “GBYE,” which comes from Machinedrum’s new album Room(s). Dig on a review of the album here, and pick it up via Planet Mu. I guess this is the best time to ask this: How many Rubik’s Cubes are too many?
Since reviewing SBTRKT’s debut album, I’ve picked up the CD and haven’t regretted a single penny spent. I just love how soulful Sampha’s vocal contributions are, and the simple, bright synths SBTRKT backs them with. Of course, my musical hunger is insatiable, and I can’t
MP3 Lenses Alien, the new album from New Jersey’s Cymbals Eat Guitars, arrives on August 30th on Barsuk Records. Soon after, the band will kick off a lengthy tour across the United States. We’ve already heard one track from the album, a staggeringly ambitious opening track called “Rifle
In the new video for Toro y Moi’s Underneath The Pine cut “How I Know,” three friends explore a haunted house late at night. Over the course of the next three minutes, they all die spectacular deaths. One suffocates on bubble gum, one gets electrocuted by spaghetti, and one
