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I have a nasty habit of getting into good bands after they break up. Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins… the list goes on. I first heard Portishead's Dummy in the late '90s, several years after its release, at the dawn of a decade of radio silence from these Balboan trip-hoppers.
We at Listen In just don't seem to be able to get away from In Rainbows, do we? Radiohead's headline-grabbing 2007 release has been reviewed, awarded, and generally discussed a number of times in the scant few months we've been doing this.
Killed at the height of his fame, Tupac Shakur's most popular works were recorded once he was signed to Death Row Records, and later, others which were released after his death. What many do not know is that Tupac was very much a revolutionary at heart.
Over the holidays, Atmosphere released a quasi-LP called Strictly Leakage on their website, for free. No, not Radiohead pay-what-you-want free - just free. Here: see for yourself.
There is a certain undeniable integrity to be had by promising something and delivering it in full. With their 2000 LP Violent by Design, Philadelphia-based hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks did just that.
Many would say that the best art is borne out of angst and pain, and out of the emotional necessity to cathartically express and release anger and hurt. When Mary J.
The new CD by Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab is a prime example of factory-made rap music. While the Wu Tang Clan is not usually considered mainstream because of explicit content that makes its music unplayable on airwaves, the members are definitely not underground.
Portishead's 1994 debut LP Dummy is the seminal album of the genre-bending trip hop movement (AKA the Bristol sound). It is an underground success with rare staying power that has won almost universal acclaim.
Justin Vernon went into the woods because he wanted to live deliberately. He walked away from civilization and took up residence in a cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin.
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