Band of Blogs: Sonic Youth, Hip-hop mashup & our best of the week

Published on May 8th, 2009 by Niall Byrne

Two weeks of Hip-Hop
Who would have thought Brooklyn chamber-popsters Grizzly Bear would sound good as a backing band for political hip-hop duo Dead Prez? The Hood Internet that’s who..
http://tinyurl.com/grizzlyprez

Sonic Youth & Dinosaur Jr. return
The forefathers of American alt-rock both debuted new songs from forthcoming sixteenth and ninth LPs respectively last week.
http://tinyurl.com/sonicnew
http://tinyurl.com/dinonew

Mayer Hawthorne
This LA white-boy is mining the sounds of classic R&B and Soul with supremely ear-pleasing results.
http://www.myspace.com/mayerhawthorne

The XX
New-wave lo-fi indie-pop from London with catchy hooks all over the place. Listen to their great Womack and Womack cover.
http://www.myspace.com/thexx 7

About the Author, Niall Byrne

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When hip hop first began they said it would be a temporary underground fad that will go away; similiar to hairstyles, but 30 years later it is on TV, Dominates the radio airwaves, and is shared by all races on each continent.

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