Tyler, The Creator — “Fucking Young/Death Camp”
In the above video, TYLER, THE CREATOR faces a situation that pretty famous rap stars might have to deal with, but us regular…
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Leggy — Nice Try
Welcome to Ohio. Home to obsessive football fans, monstrous bowls of chili, and the Drew Carey Show’s danceworthy theme song. Drew lived…
Spontaneous Celebrations: Wake Up The Earth! Saturday 5/2
Here in Jamaica Plain, the neighborhood of our paper’s birth, there exists a festival. There are a handful of them as a…
The Como Mamas — Out of the Wilderness
DAPTONE RECORDS is at the center of a contemporary soul/funk cottage industry that is very much of their own making, and which is…
D’Angelo and the Vanguard — Black Messiah
D’ANGELO‘s latest, BLACK MESSIAH, released tail end of ’14 (another early entry for my Fuck I Missed This For My 2014 Year…
THE BUDOS BAND, ELETRIC CITIZEN@ MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS
It’s funk, it’s afrobeat, it’s soul, it’s much more than that! It’s the fucking Budos! The very talented THE BUDOS BAND turns…
THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW – “We Are The Champion”
Straight up for my money there hasn’t been a better garage pop band on the planet over the last decade than THE…
MAL DEVISA @ WEIRDO RECORDS
Monday nights in Cambridge always include something to get you thinking outside of the box thanks to Weirdo Records and their program,…
INTERVIEW: AVA LUNA
The asymmetrical funk rock of Ava Luna is so distinct it could be picked out anywhere, even far from their Brooklyn home….
LEEDZ EDUTAINMENT: MADLIB, LUSHLIFE, RETROSPEK, LIGHT-FOOT, FELLY @ MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS
Throughout the past decade, beatmaking obliterated the lines between hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica (whatever that means to you), and any genre…
BLKBX & SAX @ MASS ART (GODINE GALLERY)
A group of ambitious Mass Art students are bringing the vibes tonight. Boston’s Blkbx, aka Black Box Theory, has been making experimental…
ELI “PAPERBOY” REED, RUBY ROSE FOX, SOULELUJAH DJS @ SINCLAIR
Brookline’s prodigal child of blue-eyed soul returns to his hometown tonight for a soirée of frenzied R&B at the Sinclair. This will be Eli…
