AltWeeklies Wire
How the Internet, like George Clinton before it, has reinvigorated samplingnew
"We never mind them sampling or covering a song. You're not supposed to get sued all over the place for doing it. We'd rather be doing it together." —George Clinton
Tags: Sampling
Unlikely hitmaker Ke$ha crashes the club-pop party with purposenew
Ke$ha is a big, black fly in the pristine, pre-packaged pop ointment: She dismantles modern pop using the same tools that built it. And she is, at the moment, our strangest pop star.
Now that we're all curators, what is Diplo?new
More than a decade after Hollertronix 1, it often seems like Diplo now needs us more than we need him.
Tags: Diplo
A hardworking redneck rapper like Yelawolf can't get nowherenew
On his own, Yelawolf crossed into the realms of pop, R&B and party music just fine. But when Eminem unveiled the first single from Yelawolf's debut on Shady Records, the album that followed was a mixed bag of half-baked attempts at branching out.
INDY Week |
Brandon Soderberg |
11-14-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Yelawolf
The Hot at Nights' Nice Talknew
When the group wanders, they're at their best.
Tags: The Hot at Nights
David Banner & 9th Wonder's Death of a Pop Starnew
On Death of a Pop Star, Banner finally forgoes ignorant trunk rattlers to focus solely on poignant, politically loaded raps.
Tags: David Banner
The Foreign Exchange Continues Its Unmitigated Risks on Authenticitynew
The new album from Phonte Coleman and Nicolay Rook is an often desperate, desolate album, complete with a country-and-western duet.
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