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Droppin’ Knowledge: On His Latest Album, McKinley Dixon Keeps It Real & Brings It Home
If you asked hip hop artist McKinley Dixon to name the greatest rapper of all time, you might be surprised by his answer. The Richmond Virginia-based musician, who grew up in Maryland and New York City, is unequivocal: the late American novelist, essayist and poet, Toni Morrison. “She’s the greatest rapper of all time. Even …
Album Review: Debasser – The Invitations Are Real, The Party Is Not – Album Review/Exclusive Interview/Guest Mix
Drawing on inspiration and experience from a wide range of scenes including UK Bass, Breaks, Jungle, Electro, Garage, and more, Debasser follows up singles ‘Separation Anxiety’ and ‘Bad Behaviour’ with his second long-player ‘The Invitations are Real, The Party is Not’ via his WIDE Records label. Active throughout the early 000’s on labels such as …
Meet: LYR on their new music, post-pandemic life, working with Simon Armitage, and more
THE genre-splicing LYR, comprised of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician and vocalist Richard Walters, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick J Pearson, fuse their three distinct but complimentary musical selves into an even more distinct project combining galvanic spoken word with textured ambient canopies and soaring, melodic vocals. The trio released their debut album, Call In …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Baltimore’s Zen Master Of Sound, Shine
And we back…nah, nah, nah… Veteran Baltimore, Maryland producer Shine recently released his new album, As The Beauty Became, a lovely and luxuriant collection of mostly instrumental hip hop that pulses and hums with an organic vitality. This contemplative set of nine tracks also includes two sterling guest cuts, one with Brooklyn’s Nappy Nina, and …
News: Hallie shares the wholesomeness with new single ‘Fairy Bread’ + announces new tour dates
Emerging singer-songwriter Hallie has just released new single Fairy Bread and it’s a playful, expressive, catchy sweet treat. Premiered by Australia’s triple j, the inspiration for the track came following a chaotic, party-filled period in Hallie’s life, where she found herself falling hard in a new relationship and yearning to connect with her new love …
Interview: Johnny Mckelvey of The Rumjacks answers some questions after releasing one of the best albums this year
After releasing there finest album to date with Hestia, read our review here. We got a chance to put some questions to Johnny McKelvey covering the band and the new album. First off. How are you guys doing during this current situation? How has the pandemic affected the band? Any messages for your fans? In …
Soundtrack of Our Lives: Bo Moore of The Peacers brings the groove
SAN FRAN’S Sic Alps, living guitar legends, were one of those bands which, with the amount of the talent in its ranks, could only burn bright and, like an unstable isotope, emit members to spin off into other musical pursuits, eventually to transform itself in a musical half-life. Tim Hellman went into the ranks of …
Track: Evann McIntosh delivers sweetly ethereal R&B on new single ‘NOBODY ELSE’: New album out in August
17-year-old Kansas singer-songwriter Evann McIntosh (they/them) announces exciting new album Character Development will be released on 27 August through Mom+Pop Music. Written and recorded primarily in the rising star’s suburban bedroom, the 13-track collection mixes dark alt-pop and ethereal R&B with some hip-hop, jazz, and funk added to the mix. It’s an intimate tale of self-expression as it …
In Conversation: Morcheeba’s Ross Godfrey – Life Lessons in Music
“We work really hard, we try and make it better. We lose ourselves, we give up, we go mad and then you find the gold at the end of the rainbow. Just when you think everything’s lost, and you’ve lost your own mind, that’s when you know you’ve then come to the end of the road.“ Ross Godfrey of Morcheeba. I …
Droppin’ Knowledge: New York MC Rouge Releases His Sonically Dense, Lyrically Rich Debut – War! – A Review & Conversation
Staten Island, New York emcee Rouge recently released his debut album, War!, a sonically dense collection of music, with crisp writing and a rich, full sound. On the album, Rouge grapples with the responsibilities of adulthood, the future of the planet, love, death, creativity, identity, and dreams, as well as the more mundane concerns of …