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Girl Talk is a Sound-Stealing Superstarnew
Gregg Gillis, best known for his pop-collage project Girl Talk, is old-school in his consumption habits. His latest release is titled All Day.
Charleston City Paper |
Bryan Reed |
01-20-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Girl Talk, Gregg Gillis
Lauryn Hill Is Back, Maybe Not As We Remembernew
Is the hip-hop/soul legend on a new journey?
Charleston City Paper |
Bryan Reed |
01-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lauryn Hill
Black Tusk Risingnew
The Georgia-based metallurgists rock a banner year.
Charleston City Paper |
Bryan Reed |
11-29-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Tusk
Is Wale a Victim of ADD?new
While Attention Deficit never reaches the stratospheric highs of The Mixtape about Nothing, it still delivers a winning collection, driven by funky, polyrhythmic percussion and Wale's effortless flow.
Charleston City Paper |
Bryan Reed |
11-29-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Wale
Mirror Universe Tapes Helps Revive Interest in a Once-Dead Formatnew
It's hardly worth declaring a cassette revival, or even to say tapes are the new vinyl. But the recent success of the Charleston-based cassette-only record label Mirror Universe Tapes seems to indicate otherwise.
Charleston City Paper |
Bryan Reed |
10-14-2009 |
Music
Andrew Bird Has Many Talents, but Have You Heard Him Whistle?new
Bird's whistling is the shining diamond embedded in the gold band of song he's been developing since he played a sideman's role for the Squirrel Nut Zippers in the '90s.
Charleston City Paper |
Bryan Reed |
10-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ghostface Killah Goes R&B on 'Ghostdini'new
Like his excellent 2006 LP, Fishscale, Ghostdini demonstrates Ghostface's uncanny ability to take a single thematic unifier and present it from different angles over the course of an album. What Fishscale was to drug narratives, Ghostdini is to sex jams.
Charleston City Paper |
Bryan Reed |
09-30-2009 |
Reviews
Record Store Day Arrives in Charlestonnew
Ironically, after almost 10 years, the plot of Empire Records has never been more current. Just as the film's titular shop faces extinction, so do the last remaining mom-and-pops still stocking discs. But in Charleston, things aren't so gloomy.
Charleston City Paper |
Bryan Reed |
04-15-2009 |
Music
