With a smart assist from Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples transforms Funkadelic's "Can You Get To That" from a sing-along slab of greasy-good uplift into this Americana-inflected groover. Now spare and propulsive, the underlying theme of karmic comeuppance found on this tune - originally included on 19712s Maggot Brain - rises to the fore, dovetailing perfectly with the sharply topical [...]
Anti- has announced the signing of British group The Melodic. On June 23rd the young band will release their debut EP entitled On My Way before embarking on their first ever tour of...
Apr 12, 6:17am
DIY
Folky Los Angeles duo, The Milk Carton Kids - Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan - will release their debut album ‘The Ash & Clay’ through Anti-Records next week (15th April). "Kenneth and I met over a song," Joey explains of the band's origins. "I walked into a solo performance of Kenneth's and he was singing one that he had written from the perspective of a dog. The dog lay dying in the street - having just been hit by a truck - scribbling its last remembrances on a scrap of paper. "The [...]
Apr 3, 7:46am
DOA
The Ash & Clay is triumphant, laced with tinges of country, bluegrass, and campfire ballads. One cannot grasp a record such as this in a single listen.
Lots of great music as usual to head to, here's the gigs that jump out at me this week: Thursday 14th March Eoin Glackin - Workmans Club €8 ------------------------------ --------------------- Dimestore Recordings - Sweeneys Free This has to be the best line-up of Irish [...]
Date : Saturday, March 2nd and Sunday, March 3rd Number of Noise Pop Shows : 9 shows, 32 bands Already Sold-Out : Most of them, including Thao & The Get Down Stay Down at the Great American Music Hall, Toro y Moi at The Independent, DIIV at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall, and Jukebox the Ghost at the Rickshaw Stop. Check These Shows Out : Sonny & The Sunsets crushed at The Bay Brewed, and any opportunity to see our local country-rock sweethearts is worth [...]
A cappella overdubbing of a wild array of movie themes: weird cool. It seems to me that you'd want to be Petra Haden or at least someone like her. She is a musician-a singer and a violinist-who plays creative music with a wide range of amazing people and seems to follow her whim as she feels it. She has played with Beck, The Decemberists, and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, for example. Her dad is the legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden and, as one of triplets, she has...
It's that time of the year again when music blogs worldwide take a few paragraphs to discuss their favourite albums of the year and make a comprehensive list out of it; who are we to break the trend, so without ... Continue reading
On communism's rhetoric of eschatology, and why dick jokes beat slogans. "The modern communist's dream of a completely equalitarian society is a secularized, but still essentially religious, version of the classical religious dream... Its religious quality is attested by its emphasis upon catastrophe." -- Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man & Immoral Society Even if they broached the taboo topics of politics and religion, I bet Boots Riley, the Coup's chief rapper and organizer, would get along famously with Garth Brooks. Brooks has friends in low places, and...
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We've had a steady stream of singles and videos off the Coup's upcoming Sorry to Bother You LP since it was announced back in August, but you can now check out the platter in full via an album stream. Read more »
On Oct. 30, beloved political-rap outfit the Coup will make their return with Sorry to Bother You . It's their first full-length forever , err, I mean six year, which , really, feels like forever+1 in Internet time. The timing couldn't be more perfect, of course, what with the presidential election getting close. So go ahead, hit play below and enjoy. I know I will. [ via ]
It's hard to believe it's been an entire presidential cycle since we've heard the political rap sytlings of the Coup. ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ stream-the-coups-first-album-i n-six-years-sorry-to/70915/
A veritable political hip hop pow wow takes place on"WAVIP," the latest track to drop from the Coup's forthcoming LP, Sorry to Bother You . Featuring the forceful flow of Killer Mike, the musings of Kool A.D. and Heems of Das Racist, and of course, the drawl of Boots Riley, the track functions on two levels. Lyrically, the emcees spit populist mantras (e.g. Riley suggests the residents of Whoville take revenge on the Grinch by slitting his throat), shifting in tone with each pass of the mic. Musically, the beat serves to lighten the track, buoying the song from [...]
Oakland's The Coup won't release their forthcoming album Sorry to Bother You until October 30th, but they've already released two videos from the album and most recently shared a collaboration from the album with Das Racist and Killer Mike entitled "WAVIP". Bay Area native Kool AD of Das Racist kicks the latter track off with his laid-back flow, and Boots Riley, Killer Mike, and Heems all follow suit over the fuzzy bassline. It's full of the political messages without ever losing its groove, [...]
A lot of times politics become a crucial point in music, but no one is going to really stick with the message unless the music is equally dope. Boots Riley is the leader of the rap/funk crew The Coup and on their latest song called "WAVIP" we find them teaming up with Heems and Kool A.D. of Das Racist as well as the always fresh rapper Killer Mike . The funky rap sound of this song should make you hip hop heads quite happy, stream it below. [...]
There's always a fine line to toe when musicians bring politics into their music: on one hand, the musicians wants to get their message across; on the other, and more importantly, the music should still be, to put it simply, good. Enter "WAVIP," a collaboration between four political, talented underground MCs. This passes the music/politics litmus test: Boots Riley , Killer Mike , and Heems and Kool A.D. of Das Racist craft a funky, downright infectious song that isn't unbearably political. Listen below:
Political hip hop outfit The Coup have posted a new song from their imminent new album. The collective, which is fronted by activist and musician Boots Riley will release Sorry to Bother You on October 30, 2012 . It's Boots' first album with The Coup since 2006's Pick a Bigger Weapon in 2006. The song features Das Racist and Killer Mike .
After collaborating with Tom Morello on Street Sweeper Social Club, Boots Riley will return to The Coup for their sixth LP, Sorry to Bother You , due out October 30th via Anti-. The follow-up to 20062s Pick a Bigger Weapon was produced by Riley and Damion Gallegos, who worked together to combine "danceable beats, punk urgency and the astute social commentary of hip-hop to craft a refreshingly unique sound that draws from the past but never sounds anything but futuristic." Guest contributors include Anti-Flag, Jolie Holland, Japanther, Vernon Reid, Joe Henry, and more. [...]
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The Coup leak a new track off their upcoming Sorry To Bother You album (Oct. 30th), "WAVIP" featuring Das Racist and Killer Mike.
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