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Discourse & Dischord
posted: September 17, 2010
The Good Eminem and Jay-Z rock Yankee Stadium Part one of Jay-Z and Eminem’s Home and Home Tour, which took place last week in Eminem’s hometown of Detroit, was a success (to put it mildly).…
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Synth City
posted: September 15, 2010
Natasha Jeanne was already a major label artist with three Latin GRAMMY nominations under her belt when she decided to start from scratch and form a new band. Fancy Me Yet is the result of…
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Limitless Swerve
posted: September 13, 2010
Lots of MCs want you to think they’re the next big thing. Koncept actually may be. Barely in his twenties, the Chi-Town rapper is already gaining comparisons to hip hop intelligentsia like Common, Lupe Fiasco…
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Discourse & Dischord
posted: September 10, 2010
The Good The xx win the Mercury Prize In case you’re unfamiliar with the Mercury Prize, it’s an annual music award for the best album from the UK and Ireland. This year it went to…
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Beat Don't Fail Me Now
posted: September 8, 2010
To get to Danya and the Fail, you have to go by way of Animate Objects, a venerated hip hop group from Chicago. That band began on the campus of the University of Illinois back…
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Flyin' Solo
posted: September 6, 2010
It took a major label gone sour to keep Matthew Mayfield honest. As frontman for Moses Mayfield, the Birmingham singer-songwriter was scooped up by Epic Records in 2005, transferred over to Columbia in 2006, then…
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