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The 10 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012

More than any other genre of popular music, hip-hop has benefited from the internet revolution. A fundamentally collaborative genre, hip-hop remained nonetheless quite insular during its salad days, with artist cooperation related to more to geographic location than to stylistic affinity. Now, with the ability to share music with both fans and fellow artists instantaneously,...

60-Second Review: THEESatisfaction’s awE naturalE

There are two ways to review THEESatisfaction’s debut LP: the easy way, and the hard way. The easy way involves using terms like “avant-rap” and “jazz-soul fusion,” making some references to outer space, and calling it a day. The hard way involves acknowledging that this is a record penned by a pair of romantically involved...

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Free And Easy: January 2012

It is no secret that the distribution of music on the Internet has led to a radical re-appraisal of its free-market value. With essentially every piece of music ever recorded obtainable at no cost through a well-planned Google search, the notion of paying $18 for 35 minutes of music has been rendered preposterous. This shift...

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The 50 Best Songs of 2011: 50-31

The notion of compiling a “50 Best Songs of the Year” list is preposterous. In addition to the absurd presumption that songs across genres can be objectively compared in some meaningful way, such a list ignores the fact that one’s experience of a song is entirely situational, as dependent on one’s mood and temperament as...

Ideas of Reference: An Annotated Guide to Das Racist’s Relax

Post-modernism was slow to come to rock music. Indeed, it wasn’t until the late 80s-early 90s that rock finally became comfortable mixing the high and the low, finally allowed itself to become humorous and self-deprecating. Hip-hop, by contrast, is fundamentally post-modern. Cutting up old songs to construct new songs, using the record itself as an...

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