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
08/27/2010, 04:18 pm
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.