Blog: Critical Acclaim

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Just added this intense A-Trak DJ set from Glastonbury to the Hot Summer Festival Downloads . Also, you should definitely go ahead and check out A-Trak's new Nike Running Man project, which is available on iTunes and features original production from Trizzy himself as well as a guest appearance from CA favorite Kid Cudi. If you all have any nice recordings from concerts or festivals you've been to this summer, please feel free to send me an email or leave a comment. Enjoy this mix though, it's a good one. A-Trak [...]

It took a while for the Midnight Juggernauts' latest album Dystopia to really set in for me, but parts of it have since grown on me and I just can't stop listening to tracks like "Into the Galaxy" and "End of An Era." The Midnight Juggernauts track that really hit me over the head was "Shadows", mostly because of the dance-heavy rhythm and those colorful psychedelic synths. Another thing I thoroughly enjoy about the track is that bass that just thumps incredibly hard, similar to that of someone who's been raging on X for hours on end . [...]

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As the opening date of the Rock the Bells tour in Chicago gets closer, the anticipation for seeing all of these spectacular artists continues to grow as well. When I found out that the new Nas album was being released the week of Rock the Bells, I was extremely excited. Then as I found out that Mos Def was coming out with a new album and would be performing new material at Rock the Bells, I almost lost my mind. Of course, who could forget the scheduled performances from one of my all time favorites A Tribe Called Quest, as [...]

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Aren't quite over Bloc Party yet? Well for all of the semi-Bloc Party fans out there, "Mercury" is likely to be the straw that breaks the camel's back or your back. At a first listen, I didn't even know if I was listening to Bloc Party or some phony artist who labeled his mp3 as Bloc Party (something like what happened with the Death Cab leak). But after closely listening to Kele's vocals over that breakbeat techno beat at the beginning, "Mercury" could have very well been written by any number of bands with an Arctic Monkeys or Pendulum obsession. [...]