Cuban hip-hop is far from an extensive genre, but if one crew is exemplary of the fusion, it's Orishas. Since 1999, the three man group has been evolving from record to record, reflecting the success that brought them from underground…
Continue Reading →If you're at least in your twenties, you had a relationship with cassette tapes. You remember your first mixtape, the easily breakable cases, and that pitch bend when the thing was just too damn old. The TapeDeck application for Mac…
Continue Reading →While there are plenty of P-Funk recordings to keep us warm and fuzzy through winter, it never hurts when we get something unheard from the original line-up. Toys is a lounge seat in a Detroit studio circa 1973, featuring only…
Continue Reading →The psychobilly genre was made most popular in the mainstream by Reverend Horton Heat, but the history of this distinct, mutt genre goes back to a movement that began alongside punks and greasers in the 1970s and 80s. After the…
Continue Reading →Lego and hip-hop might have absolutely nothing to do with each other, but that doesn't mean they can't combine forces to yield something awesome. Twenty classic hip hop album covers have been recreated in Lego by Formatmag.com, including Three Feet…
Continue Reading →Mos Def: The Ecstatic - Buy It In addition to production by Madlib and Oh No!, there is a track on here produced by J Dilla, featuring Talib Kweli aptly titled "History". A must have for any true school hip-hop…
Continue Reading →While the East Coast brought the original playful style that peaked in the mid '90s, no one can deny the influence of Californian jokesters like the Pharcyde. Top notch production from names like J Dilla and Diamond D, along with…
Continue Reading →I've been spending an endless amount of time in front of the computer these past few days, which explains how I've stumbled across another great online Brazilian music site this week (it helps to break up the hip-hop of Radio…
Continue Reading →The Gift: It's our Space-Race-On-Acid prize pack. If you missed Wayne Coyne and co. and their homemade holiday Martian movie, you have the chance to win one DVD copy of the Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars, bundled with a score/soundtrack…
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