Coolymack featuring Vegas – Hennessey Single (CD)

Do it yourself rap. How could I not love it? While the production of the track isn’t the best, the track plays itself pretty much like I thought it was. The lines laid down by both Coolymack and Vegas are pretty mediocre, and the main thing that I found myself listening to was the extremely fresh backbeat behind it. Don’t get me wrong, this track could conceivably be on BET or rap radio, but it doesn’t have anything even close to a hook to it. Featuring pretty much the same subject matter as abo

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Controlling The Famous – Automatic City (CD)
When “Detox” opens up “Automatic City”, the arrangement that Controlling The Famous bring to the table first should immediately remind individuals of “Waiting Room”-era Fugazi. The vocals come from the opposite side of the spectrum, and finds itself in the camp of Pittsburgh natives Fuel. F-bands aside, Controlling The Famous create a brand of emotive, danceable rock without falling into the dance-punk phenomenon that has been the rage in the last few years.Something else that should become clea

Music Review: Maylene and the Sons of Disaster – III (Ferret Records)
There are few genres as maligned as Southern Rock. The term brings to mind a drunken guy wearing a wife-beater and a trucker cap with a Confederate flag patch screaming “Freebird!” The truth is that most people that grow up in the South/Southwest are born knowing about two musical genres, Country and Rock. Given the working class environment and the muiscal heritages of the regions this is no surprise. The legacy os the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd were revived and renewed most popularly

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“Obviously I’m a little biased - they pay me money to write things, which is more than any UK publication ever has - but the more I read of this Drowned In Sound series on “Rock Criticism RIP” the more I think there’s a Pitchfork-y elephant in the room. Maybe not as big as an elephant. Maybe a hippo or a wildebeest or something. But given how much of the wider narrative of the DiS pieces has been about the loss of tastemaker status and the reduction of music criticism to frothy capsule reviews,

Music Review: Karrin Allyson - By Request
An even dozen albums under her belt, the Grammy-nominated singer/pianist is among the best jazz vocalists around.