All us internet-saavy music fans cruise youtube looking for that golden video. A guy or girl sitting in their room, playing ,and just brimming with talent and it-ness. Well, we found one: A girl — We know now she’s emerging artist and Taiwanese music producer’s daughter Joanna Wang — singing a classic song...
The Cenobites — an EP released in 1992 by Ultramagnetic MCs featuring rap legend Kool Keith aka Dr.’s Doom and Octagon — is one of the lesser-known pieces of fun, literate, booty-shaking party hip-hop from the end of hip-hop’s golden age in the early...
Angry gravel voiced New York Jew who can’t sing writes brilliant, quirky songs about drugs and his half-insane mind. David Peel: hero of the scene, landmark of the Lower East Side, insane runaway bum. Writer of We Are From the Lowest East Side, I...
Every wonder where classic white artists get all their best ideas? Well grasshopper, I’ll tell you: they steal from even more classic black artists. Among these unappreciated culture-innovators is...
Does the modern music world favor solo artists over bands? Isn’t a singing guitarist better off selling all his or her electric gear and just recording as cheaply...
Big L. Apparently live on the radio. Entirely different lyrics than the famous version. One of the best of all time. Thinking man’s gangster rapper.