Archive for December 2009
Brand New Second Hand
While the music industry appears desperate to come up with new solutions to its ongoing crisis, record collectors and anyone soothed by analogue sound is preying on the remains of the days when the release of a single was an anticipated event, and not just something you stumble upon on the internet. WBAB went to Paris and then to Amsterdam to see just how niched vinyl stores in Europe's capitals are doing.Wed 9 Dec 09 20:29 No comments
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Blackstar
In 1999, a family friend from New York brought me what his son thought to be the best hip-hop around at the time. I was given Mos Def and Talib Kweli’s debut album together as Blackstar and Aquemeni by Outkast, a perfect blend of the underground New York rap I would come to love, and...Fri 11 Dec 09 22:56 No comments
Brother Ali – Us
Straight out of Wisconsin in mid-western America, Brother Ali is out to save a lot more than hip-hop. The powerful content of his 2009 release "Us" has convinced us that he is out to channel the untold stories of his people - and raise the roof while he's at it.Thu 10 Dec 09 23:26 No comments
kmd – black Bastards
Hindsight's twenty-twenty. Tell that to the execs at Elektra Records. Having cancelled the release of KMD's second album Black Bastards in 1993 – reportedly over it's hanging black sambo cover art – Elektra probably didn't envisage the non-release becoming the topic of outraged hip-hop fans' ire almost a decade later.Tue 8 Dec 09 23:20 No comments
El Michels Affair – Enter the 37th Chamber
This 9-piece funk band out of Brooklyn had an ingenius idea: to take a musical trip across the boroughs of New York to Staten Island and cover the best album ever to have come out of that part of New York. On Enter the 37th Chamber, el Michels Affair remake one of hip-hop's classics with... class.Thu 3 Dec 09 20:39 1 comment
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