Willie Schube wrote this via the magic of photosynthesis. It’s hard for a band to get stronger and stronger yet increasingly underrated at the same time. Woods, the Brooklyn-based (freak/psychedelic/any ol’ adjective) folk band released four great records in four consecutive years before taking 2013 off (although they released a single or two)—probably to contemplate […]

Mike Eagle exists on the periphery. He’s part Low End Theory beat family, part Blowdian, part sarcastic Second City native.  He’s forever an outsider, a mindset that has helped shape him into one the sharpest, smartest, and funniest observers in the rap game. His satirical on-point perspective of the current rap scene comes fully fleshed […]

Willie Schube also pops at The Tape. After a brief and fairly disappointing detour into the world of soft/art-pop/rock, Yoni Wolf and his cohorts are back with a dive into the folk-hop genre that the dude basically pioneered. After WHY? released Alopecia in 2008—a record full of angst-y, self-loathing and extremely clever raps—the group plowed […]