
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Real Estate "Cloud Control - This Is What I Said" What's so good? Albums can take you by surprise. I'm sure you know that - after all, you're hunting for new music, right? Well that's what Cloud Control did for me. I think I dismissed their album on first listen. I didn't even got through two tracks. As such I have no alternative but [...]
Right, so I was more than a little baffled with the first track off Pearly Gate Music's debut album. It is dubbed 'The Golden Funeral' and after listening to it, it's little wonder why. I felt like I was marching behind a procession and if that was singer Zach Tillman's intention, then give credit - he succeeded. Still, the first listen made me beg god where the hell the song was going. It was almost cringeworthy. Several spins later, I now confess that the little brother of Fleet Foxes' drummer, Josh Tillman, couldn't have opened his solo record [...]

Back to the Basics is a series about hip hop and its regional influences throughout the United States. This artist comes to you from the Bay Area . Click image to download full album Sounds like: Eli & Grouch, People Under the Stairs, CunninLynguists Download audio file (11-zion_i-coastin_feat._k.fla y_.mp3) What's so good? Well it's time to finally rap (HA!) up our [...]

Back to the Basics is a series about hip hop and its regional influences throughout the United States. This artist comes to you from the Bay Area . Click image to download full album Sounds like: People Under the Stairs, Zion I Download audio file (Crown-City-Rockers-Earthtones -03-Balance-feat.-Scarub.mp3) What's so good? We're on the verge of wrapping up [...]

Back to the Basics is a series about hip hop and its regional influences throughout the United States. This artist comes to you from the Bay Area . Click image to download full album Sounds like: Lifesavas, Lateef the Truthspeaker, Gift of Gab Download audio file (05-Lyrics-Born-Do-That-There- The-Young-Einstein-Hoo-Hoo-Mix .mp3) Lyrics Born is a silly, silly man. And that's just how I [...]

Back to the Basics is a series about hip hop and its regional influences throughout the United States. This artist comes to you from the Bay Area . Click image to download full album Sounds like: Deltron 3030, De La Soul, Gift of Gab Download audio file (08-Side-To-Side-With-Lateef-P igeon-John.mp3) Our next featured hip hoppers of the Bay Area are Blackalicious , a [...]

Back to the Basics is a series about hip hop and its regional influences throughout the United States. This artist comes to you from the Bay Area . Click image to download Deltron 3030 album Sounds like: Deltron 3030, Gorillaz, Heiroglyphics Download audio file (Deltron-3030-Mastermind.mp3) First up and perhaps most exemplary of the Bay Area's unique style is the prolific "Del tha [...]

Back to the basics is a series about real hip hop and its regional influences throughout the united states. this artist comes to you from the Pacific Northwest . click image to view artist in itunes Sounds like: Common, Swollen Members, Slug, Ohmega Watts What's so good? Moka Only gained fame from his role with the legendary Canadian hip hop crew [...]

Back to the basics is a series about real hip hop and its regional influences throughout the united states. this artist comes to you from the Pacific Northwest . click image to view artist in itunes Sounds like: Jurassic 5, Rakim, Blue Scholars, Aceyalone What's so good? One guy we gotta make sure to check out before departing the beautiful Pac Northwest is [...]

back to the basics is a series about real hip hop and its regional influences throughout the united states. this artist comes to you from the pacific northwest . click image to view artist in itunes sounds like: common market, blue scholars what's so good? OK, so Sweatshop Union is a Canadian hip hop collective. I know that you're thinking, "Canadian isn't the [...]

back to the basics is a series about real hip hop and its regional influences throughout the united states. this artist comes to you from the pacific northwest . click image to view artist in itunes what's so good? Our next stop on the tour of the Pacific Northwest is…Seattle….again. Here we take a look at Common Market , the other hip hop duo of DJ Sabzi [...]

back to the basics is a series about real hip hop and its regional influences throughout the united states. this artist comes to you from the pacific northwest . click image to view artist in itunes what's so good? First up is the group that's righteously receiving the most attention on the national scene: the Blue Scholars out of Seattle. MC Geologic and DJ Sabzi [...]