k-os – The Anchorman Mixtape
‘Now if you don’t think this song is the greatest song ever, I will fight you. That’s no lie.’ – Ron Burgundy The best thing about the end-of-year lists isn’t finding out where everyone decided to...
View ArticleBig Boi vs. The Black Keys: The Brothers of Chico Dusty
Wick-It The Instigator – The Brothers of Chico Dusty The best blues rock album mashed up with one of the best hip-hop releases of the year by Nashville, TN‘s Wick-It The Instigator. Black Keys x Big...
View ArticleAquarium Drunkard motivates mixtaping
A friend of mine has been pushing me to start including mixtapes on ILSUDH2 for the past year and as much as the idea has appealed to me, I have been intimidated by how much time it will take. In...
View Articlejj wants to kill you
jj – Kills (Sincerely Yours, 2010) There was a time when jj was an anonymous Swedish pop project that hid Lil’ Wayne lyrics under balaeric beats and were presented as nothing nothing than blood...
View Articlefrom the basement vol. 1
Slightly below the real world, in my real life, I work as a Sales Engineer for a software company. My days are spent in a home office in my basement in Colorado. This isn’t a windowless, dungeon...
View Article‘stripper booty and a rack like wow, brain like berkeley’
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted about a single song, but I feel Frank Ocean’s “Novacane” deserves a permanent spot here…he deserves more than a lost Facebook post. Ocean was transplanted to L.A....
View ArticleWugazi = Doomtree + Wu-Tang + Fugazi = Awesome
In these days when most are too jaded to even waste their time claiming ‘hip-hop is dead’, the Minneapolis-based Doomtree collective continue to put out exciting releases from P.O.S., Dessa and most...
View Article‘the combination made my eyes bleed’
Wugazi – 13 Chambers (self-released, 2011) Obviously this album layers Wu-Tang rhymes over Fugazi post-rock to create the ultimate tribute to the early 90′s. What might not be so obvious before...
View ArticleA Fun Fun Fun Playlist: Going Deep into FFF6
The Fun Fun Fun Fest has been the best weekend of music for quite a few years running. A relatively small festival with a massive line-up, Fun Fun Fun brings acts from near and far (and even from the...
View ArticleCHELSEA WOLFE, WHITE HORSE, PAC & BIG
I am literally running out the door to catch a flight to San Francisco, but couldn’t help sharing the latest from the Chelsea Wolfe camp. A few days ago Chelsea tweeted that she was ‘living inside...
View ArticleEvian Christ drops Kings and Them mixtape
It makes sense that 2012′s first youtube-born ‘next big thing’ would land on Tri-Angle — the home of How To Dress Well, Balam Acab, oOoOO and Clams Casino. The label just dropped this mixtape of the...
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