Hip-Hop & Electronic

  • Record Review: Animal Talk

    Animal Talk Animal Talk Boston, MA “Upbeat, strong and invigorating, this Boston band holds great promise” Animal Talk, a relatively new band out of Boston,...

  • Record Review: Air

    Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune Paris, France “Futuristic space-pop soundtrack to a century-old film masterpiece” Air, the electronic duo of Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas...

  • Record Review: Young Magic

    Young Magic Melt New York, NY “Exiting the chill wave for the new shambling, tribal electronic frontier” Following their You with Air EP, featuring the...

  • Record Review: Lisa Jaeggi

    Lisa Jaeggi Epic Epic Brooklyn, NY “Folk, soul and hip-hop come together better than manila folders and the X-Files” Brooklyn’s Lisa Jaeggi initiates a journey...

  • Record Review: Doomtree

    Doomtree No Kings Minneapolis, MN “Eclectic Midwest hip-hop collective delivers again” On No Kings, their second album, Minneapolis based rap collective Doomtree offer up a...

  • Record Review: Black Bananas

    Black Bananas Rad Times Xpress IV Washington, D.C. “A beautiful haze of acid drenched noise” It wouldn’t be fair to call Black Banana’s sound a...

  • Record Review: Tycho

    Tycho Dive San Francisco, CA “Beautiful foray into the natural and unnatural” Maybe it’s the beautifully designed cover art of a sun conjoining with a...

  • Record Review: Buraka Som Sistema

    Buraka Som Sistema Komba Amadora, Portugal “Colorful, upbeat electro ghettotech tunes from Portugal” It’s been three years since Portugal’s lauded electronic dance group Buraka Som...

  • Record Review: Moe Green

    Moe Green Lion Heart Vallejo, CA “Intelligent NorCal hip-hop with the heart of a lion” Straight from the streets of Vallejo comes the latest release...

  • Record Review: Lostribe

    Lostribe Sophie Sacramento, CA “Synths meet funky beats in genre-blending hip-hop” Lostribe, comprised of producer JustLuv and rapper Agustus ThElefant, have managed to make a...