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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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Q&A With Ozomatli
posted: September 11, 2010
The US State Department has been sending musicians overseas as musical ambassadors of culture, peace and acceptance for decades. Over the years, the ranks have included famous jazz musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.…
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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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Q&A With Tegan & Sara
posted: September 7, 2010
The whole realm of musical duos is gaining more and more popularity in the music industry. She & Him, Matt & Kim, Meg & Dia and”of course”Tegan & Sara. The thing that sets the latter…
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Hip Hop Habit: MyVA
posted: September 7, 2010
First and foremost a lyricist, MyVA‘s (pronounced My-Vey) flow is voluminous as the aftermath of a breaking dam. He rhymes like a runaway semi-truck careening down the pages of the English dictionary, oblivious to any…
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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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