Posted by Dave on January 18, 2013 · 2 Comments
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed any hip-hop on this site. Honestly, coming up with good hip-hop is hard, so many people think they can do it because they don’t really have to hit any [...]
Category: Hip-hop, hypetree, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Rap, Vyne List · Tags: academic, Animal House, beats, cerebral, creative, Cruel Winter, equation, flow, Gone in December, grimey, hip hop, interpreter, Judas, lyrics, master, musician, My Brother & Mii, net, passionate, poet, poetry, rap, rapper, sexy, T*Merk, The Cage, vivid
Posted by Dave on August 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment
I don’t think it’s a big secret that I don’t have a lot of confidence in today’s hip-hop. The mainstream is full of pretenders with no flow, weak beats, and ghost-written lyrics. The underground, though, helps [...]
Category: Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music, Rap · Tags: beats, confidence, Deejay Zelaya, emcee, EP, faith, flow, For the Love, ghost-written, hip hop, ill, Immortal Technique, life, lyrics, mainstream, Nas, political, pretenders, rap, secret, similarities, Soul Gems EP, street culture, Technique, underground, We Ain't Goin' Out
Posted by Dave on July 11, 2012 · 19 Comments
Let’s take a trip across the pond, shall we? We’ll stop by England; London to be precise, and meet up with something of a local enigma. I’m talking about Harry Oakwood, of course. Harry doesn’t get [...]
Category: Folk, Indie Artists, Indie folk, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: band, Bob Dylan, debut, deep, emotions, England, EP, folk, folk music, forgotten, Harry Oakwood, Harry Oakwood (Millionaire), ideas, investment, London, lyrics, melody, memories, Millionaire, new folk, pond, Scared Crow, self-titled, shrewd, soothing, Soul, sweet, The Beatles, trip
Posted by Dave on June 28, 2012 · 1 Comment
There aren’t enough women in hip-hop. Considering that hip-hop was born from the adversity one experiences living in the slums of the inner city, often we only hear the male artist perspective. We are missing an [...]
Category: Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: Ace Reign, adversity, beats, emcee, flow, Grind or Die, hip hop, inner city, lyrics, male, perseverance, perspective, production, slums, stories, style, tracks, women, women in hip-hop
Posted by Dave on June 27, 2012 · 1 Comment
I am honestly shocked with how bad rap is on the radio and in the mainstream. Not a week ago I went to grab some lunch with my brother and we lamented at the state of [...]
Category: Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: beats, cliche, hip hop, Iller, lament, lyrics, mainstream, nasty, production, rap, set, shocked, The High Life, We Came to Rock
Posted by Dave on June 26, 2012 · 2 Comments
It’s a beautiful thing when a new singer/songwriter takes her lyrics seriously. It’s even more beautiful when she masters lyricism and blends it perfectly with instrumentation. Want an example? Of course you do; how about Kalen. [...]
Category: Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: and Other Mistakes, beautiful, blues, bluesy, brilliant, emotion, Fairy Tales, Fantasies, Honky Tonk Hip Hop, instrumentation, jazz, jazzy, Kalen, love, lyrics, master, passionate, politics, Rabid Girl, singer/songwriter, Soul, soulful, spectacular
Posted by Dave on June 11, 2012 · 2 Comments
Rarely does a musician enter the acoustic indie rock genre with as much energy as this young man. Often those artists in the acoustic singer/songwriting genre are very talented musicians who rely on their passion to [...]
Category: acoustic, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: acoustic, cello, composition, drums, earphones, energy, Guitar, indie, Leaving, lyrics, military, military officer, Modern Soldier Poet, officer, pawn, Pawn and Queen, philanthropist, Philip Cohen, poetry, prowess, queen, Rock, singer, singer/songwriter, soldier, songwriter, versatility
Posted by Dave on June 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
What happens when you mix a sick drummer with a bright young emcee? Well, you get Numbers, the answer to any equation. This new hip-hop group is busting out of Phoenix, Arizona and dropping hits where [...]
Category: Hip-hop, Indie Artists, Music, Music Discovery, New Music · Tags: drums, equation, flow, hip hop, I.P., Izzy Neutron, lyrics, Machine Gun Spitting, new, Numbers, You Can Count on Numbers
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