Robert Plant has made a career out of recontextualizing. Evidence of his desire to reframe songs goes back even to the earliest recordings from the late 60s, when he recorded psyched out demos of “Hey Joe” and “For What it’s Worth” with his pre-Zeppelin “Band of Joy.” This desire continued...
Dylan Carlson has come a long way. Make no mistake, putting Earth together has always been an ambitious project, from its name being an early moniker of Black Sabbath, to its obsession with crafting slow and impenetrable songs in long repetitive forms, Dylan Carlson has spun together a career...
Rapper, actor, and conduit to the streets Beanie Sigel is moving from a prison to a halfway house. I was in college in Philadelphia as Beans began his rise to mainstream notoriety with Jay-Z, Dame Dash and Roc-A-Fella Records, so I feel a special affinity towards him. To me,...
Top Dawg Entertainment Though having dropped nearly a decade ago, only recently has the California based record label “Top Dawg Entertainment” shown itself as a musical force to be reckoned with. Having evolved from a small independent startup to, most recently, the “label-to-watch”, its positive reception has come...
I’m pretty certain that the entire world has heard at least one thing about Miley Cyrus and her recent performances [Ed.Note: Behaviours?]. From the VMA’s to her two very “out there” music videos, Miley has definitely left a stark mark on the entertainment world in a very short amount of...
Drake’s third studio album, Nothing Was The Same, shows that Drake is not only at the forefront of a genre of music I like to call “singing rap”, but that he is also not afraid to step out of his comfort zone even if he stays within the realm...