Hip Hop – R&B – Soul
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Common – The Dreamer/The Believer
Common perplexes me. On one end of the earth, the man has made some great hip hop. Go is one of those start-to-finish listens and easily one of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. That’s not really much of a statement however; I have to believe anyone with...
Drake – Take Care
Drake Drake Drake, I get it; fall is over, sunshine, warm weather…hope – all in the rearview mirror. I know these next few months are cold, drippy and downright stressful. I mean, do you know how fucking hard it is to go grocery shopping in the rain? Waiting for the...
Evidence – Cats & Dogs
This album is extremely necessary to the world of hip hop and the music universe. And never has a sentence been more true for a “better than mediocre” album. You all know Evidence from his days with Dilated Peoples and the just-above-underground, “did that one song with Kanye” – collective...
Wugazi – 13 Chambers
Holy shit…I love free albums. Let me amend that last statement. I appreciate when albums are offered for free despite the obvious level of work put into the product. Wugazi is a project unsurprisingly combining the work of post punk anti-idols Fugazi and hip hop icons The Wu Tang Clan....
Tyler The Creator – Goblin
Amidst hype and controversy, the much anticipated release of Goblin has been bestowed upon the world like the latest hipster accessory or more simply, a bad joke, or a good-bad joke. Or an exploration into the…Shit, I took the bait. The bait, of course, being the ridiculous dissection and speculation...
Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise
The Beastie Boys are back! It’s been years since we’ve heard a rap album from them and Make Some Noise proves the trio hasn’t lost any of their edge from hiatus. The give-and-take delivery is still used to perfect effect and punch lines are as clever as they have always...
Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming
Charles Bradley has lived a rough life, and he’s lived a lot more of it than most new artists. I won’t try to paraphrase the biography on his website about the hardships he’s struggled with, but I recommend reading it. Ever since seeing James Brown as a young man, he...
Atmosphere – The Family Sign
Wow, Slug and the Sluggettes, commonly referred to as Atmosphere, just claimed about three points on my “current emotion-to-music I’m listening to”, 2-dimensional graph. Not to get all High School Algebra on you, but I just did. Fuck around in Excel, graph that shit. Prior to The Family Sign, Atmosphere...
