The popularity of your comeback album ultimately comparing only to the likes of Meat Loaf…heartbreaking.
The disappointing chart success of your recent single “Come to Me”…humbling.
Finding a reason to show up to an awards show which …

“When I tell you this is tight, I mean this is tight” a friend of mine told me while discussing El-P’s upcoming release I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead; words of praise I could not ignore. …

Inevitable comparisons to Minneapolis’ Atmosphere aside, New York’s Metermaids blaze a strict duality, finding balance between their grounded roots, gritty rhymes and loveable accessibility. MC Swell and DJ Spacecaboose offer up their own “bad …

Drowned in Sound begins the day with an interesting note of news surrounding a family of oft-tainted musical royalty, The Osbournes. What was eye-catching about the blurb was not simply the fact that Ms. …

The band’s decade-long history is actually closer to sixteen years, but it was with the 1997 release, Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, and in particular the album’s single “Third Season,” which A Fire …

[by: Daniel Toccalino]
At one point or another I devoted an immense amount of attention, in some form or another, to each of these songs. I can’t rightly tell you if I was obsessed with …

#30) Be Your Own PET Be Your Own PET
As much as music blogs were deemed unnecessary and deluded by mainstream media due to their quick-to-act hype of certain bands, so too can music fans classify …

[by Victor Scott]
Since this is the first time I’ve actually written down a year end list for publication, allow me to subject you to the navel gazing I’ve been doing for the last 2 weeks. …

Moments into “Fire Engine Dream,” an outtake from the Sonic Nurse sessions in 2003, Sonic Youth begins to deliver an almost encyclopedic, note for note, version of themselves; a noisy, brash Sonic Youth reminiscent to …

It may or may not have started with Nas’ “Ether” back in 2001, but after both ended up together with Def Jam someone had to take the reigns in cracking down on Jay-Z and in …

[by Kenyata Sullivan]
Here are four things I’m truly enthusiastic about, and perhaps they might not all have been created this year, but they were all new to me in ‘06. So, in no particular order:
1. …

A fresh video produced by Mazik Saevitz which features John Yancey, Common, Will.I.AM, Black Thought and Talib Kweli among others was recently released from J Dilla’s 2006 album The Shining. I feel poor for …