Mass Appeal Fails to Live Up To Its Name, Calls It Quits
Posted on 21. May, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Lifestyle, Music
Joining the ranks of other recently folded music mags No Depression and Harp, Mass Appeal has decided to gtfo of the magazine game:
In a refrain that’s becoming all-too-familiar for niche music magazine publishers, Mass Appeal, the 12-year-old Brooklyn-based hip-hop and lifestyle magazine, is calling it quits. The 100,000-circulation title had recently published its 50th issue.
Rap Music
Posted on 20. May, 2008 by spencer in Idiocy, Music
Thank you Internet for teaching me about rap music.
Although Bob Odenkirk can throw it down too.
His science is too tight.
Synthesis Artist You’ve Never Heard Of Artist Of The Day: El Prezidino
Posted on 29. Apr, 2008 by spencer in Band of the Day, Music
“I got my momma playin very hard / I’m flirtin’ with sin but I’m married to god…”
When you flip through my CD books you’ll find a lot of indie rock and metal, but not too much hip-hop. It’s not that I don’t have an appreciation for the music, it’s just I hate the braggadocio aesthetic that sets the tone for the majority of hip-hop artists of the last few years.
You also won’t find much in terms of Christian music in my collection…my people get blamed for the crucifixion and I [...]
The Pharcyde To Reunite For Rock The Bells Tour 2008
Posted on 23. Apr, 2008 by AJ in Music
The boys of The Pharcyde will be hitting up the stage @ Rock The Bells Tour 2008, marking a rather unexpected reunion. For the first time in 10 years all the original members will be performing together…
Best known for their 1992 hit “Passin’ Me By†off of Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, the alt.rap stars haven’t released anything together since their 2004 release Humboldt Beginnings, which featured only Imani and Bootie Brown. Fatlip left the group after reported drug problems around 1996, and SlimKid3 followed around 2002 (although his departure [...]
Blue Scholars Premier Video for “Loyalty,” Ready New Digital EP
Posted on 15. Apr, 2008 by James in Music
Seattle hip-hop group Blue Scholars sure keeps busy. On April 26th, the group will release its second digital EP since their critically acclaimed 2007 album Bayani dropped. In addition, they’ve also released a pretty sweet clip for the song “Loyalty,” which appears on Bayani as well as the new EP, Butter&Gun$. The EP also includes the title track, “27″ and instrumental versions of all three. Check out the video for “Loyalty,” which is conveniently embedded below, or you could go see a super swanky HD version at Vimeo.com.
Blue Scholars “Loyalty” [...]
Dizzee Rascal and El-P Take It on the Road
Posted on 31. Mar, 2008 by James in Music
Fresh from tearing it up at SXSW, Dizzee Rascal will head on the road with El-P for a string of major city dates in the US (and one stop in Canada). Dizzee Rascal’s new album, Maths + English is due out April 24th on Def Jux.
May 8 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
May 9 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
May 10 New York, NY – Webster Hall
May 11 Boston, MA – Middle East
May 12 Ottawa, Ontario – New Capital Music Hall
May 14 Detroit, MI – Crofoot Ballroom
May 15 Chicago, IL – [...]
St Patty’s off the Beaten Track
Posted on 19. Mar, 2008 by na3s in Chico, Music
This post is only two days late, but what else is a blog for other than slightly outdated information? So here goes nothing.
My green day was mellow, giving thanks for that pace. No bars, no frat parties and no drunk tank or pelting police officers with beer bottles for me. However, I did humbly attend a kegger at some anonymous location with some old high-school friends. You know, took a walk down no-memory lane, into the past, all the stupid shit I got away with in my first years of [...]
Synthesis Band, I mean, Artist You’ve Never Heard of Band, I mean, Artist of The Day: Yoshi
Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Blog
Okay, the long-winded title of our daily new band blog (“Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard of Band of the Day”) may, by definition, rarely allow for hip-hop artists to get up in this piece. But it’s not like that. At Synthesis you will find a wide array of musical styles fighting for their time in the jukebox. Someone stops an Afropop CD to put in some power metal, only to later be replaced with some fey-assed twee pop, followed by outlaw country and a ska compilation. Then Video Matt or [...]
