Sep
15

Peter Rosenberg and Action Bronson Get Popping

Evan Nabavian has a lot of old soul music. Ah mixtapes. I used to come home from school, fire up Windows XP, and check newsgroups for the newest Big Mike, Kay Slay, and Clue tapes. I would download them all and delete everything except the D-Block tracks. But most of that probably doesn’t make a… Continue reading »

Sep
11

Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – “Lost in Translation”

Bootleg liquor on a Sunday night. I don’t know if eXquire has next but he raps like he snaps necks and that is very important. “Maltese Falcon” is my favorite song because I am a Sam Spade stan, but there is a lot to get lost in here. Highly recommended. Download: ZIP: Mr. MFN eXquire-Lost… Continue reading »

Sep
06

Exile’s Intro to the Outro and the Power of Nerditry

Jonah Bromwich’s name really needs to be added to the staff page. If you’re a certain kind of nerd, you’re going to like Exile’s new mixtape Intro to the Outro. If you’re the kind of nerd who wishes that Exile would do a project with a lyrical, possibly-underrated rapper who you realize that you only… Continue reading »

Aug
23

Mixtape: Curren$y – Verde Terrace

Like a powdered wigged man chopping cherry kush, Spitta doesn’t lie. His new tape has a song called “Hennessy Beach,” where Curren$y admits that he’s never sipped such high octane cognac. He’s more of an XO man. That’s the thing about the Jet Life pilot, he turns his realness into high art. It’s a stretch… Continue reading »

Mar
31

Rock the Dub: 5 Year Anniversary Compilation

Immense respect due to Rock the Dub for surviving a half-decade in the indigent wasteland that is the independent Internet world. Ask any blogger who doesn’t collect a bi-weekly check from some corporate benefactor: scrounging for interesting content, posting multiple times a day, and attempting to say anything remotely insightful is harder than sitting through… Continue reading »

Jan
31

From Pasadena to Medina: Mister Cee’s “The Best of Notorious B.I.G.”

Caring about contemporary music is particularly difficult on a Monday. Last night, I attempted to trudge through an iTunes clogged with random demo’s, middling efforts from bands who released one song that I liked a year ago, and uh, The Streets’s George Orwell spaceship grime record released only to iPad users.  Within five minutes,  I… Continue reading »