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Nearly a month after underground cult heroes Atmosphere released a 26-track LP, another mainstay of below-the-radar hip hop – albeit with a very different style – followed suit. But, whereas Atmosphere’s tracklist was dictated by a structuring concept – the title of each song started with each letter of the… Read more »

The cover of “Growing Pains” has been carefully crafted to elicit discussion in reviews like this. 24 grew up with a white Jewish mother and a black Catholic father, and if you find his bio online it says he celebrated both Hanukkah and Christmas growing up. His parents were also… Read more »

The furore around artificial intelligence (AI) infecting music has largely played out on big streaming platforms such as Spotify. Little has been written about how AI has now infiltrated independent platforms like Bandcamp, but let’s shine our banker’s lamp in the eyes of NueroModern. Supposedly hailing from Eastern Europe, in… Read more »

Iceberg Theory is the producer, Yung Regis is the rapper. That’s as close to being compared to DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince as this duo will ever get. “Y’all been cheesing like the queso that they put on the nacho” A Million Ways To Rhyme In The West… Read more »

My one memory of Zima from the 1990’s is that it was bad. It was made and marketed by the Coors Brewing Company as an alternative to beer, one that some people may have mistakenly believed was low calorie or healthy due to its clear color. The original flavor was… Read more »

At 14 years old, a time in my life when most decisions were not mine to be made, one I could and DID control was what music I listened to. I had a record player, a low tier knockoff Walkman, and a pretty decent boombox. I also had a learner’s… Read more »