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It’s been nearly 15 years since Arrested Development came into the world. Their first album…take me to another place, Tennessee, Tennessee…sold over four million copies which was titled, Three years, five months, and two days in the life of… However, Arrested Development’s style has been a very ...

This is sweet! I'm honestly having so much fun listening to the new self-titled album by Coburn! I'm normally not one to gush, but I seriously have nothing but good to say about this two man group comprised of DJ's Tim Healey and Pete Martin of London. Creating ...

The fact that I have never heard of rising star J. Phoenix surprises me immensely. He has been featured on many a TV show and has written with and for some of the biggest names in the music business. Finally transitioning from working behind the scenes in the past to ...

Jaheim may be the new “Voice of R&B” just like he declares on the first track of his new album Makings of a Man. Jaheim utilizes his soulful Teddy Pendergrass vibe to pump out more contemporary versions of the old school hits that influenced him. He manages a smooth, cool, ...

I first heard J.R. Writer as he ripped the shit out of the intro to “Diplomatic Immunity 2” and I remember thinking to myself: damn, Dipset’s about to take over Hip-Hop. After all, they did house big names like Cam’ron and Juelz Santana, and with background acts like Jim ...

The group is L.A. Symphony, the album called Unleashed (a mixtape of new & unreleased tracks, rarities, demos and more!). Call me crazy but I actually thought this album was going to be a recording of the L.A. Philharmonic remixed. Something along those lines might be odd but ...

I’ve never claimed to be an expert on the Rap/Hip Hop genre, but I know a future star when I see one. RedCloud is a future star. Combining extremely intense and impressive lyrics with some of the best and most original beats I have heard in awhile, RedCloud shows his ...

To analyze Rick Ross we must first understand that his past is riddled with tales of narcotics, guns, money, and the old fashioned Scarface-esque bravado that we so commonly see throughout the industry. So it’s easy to see why Ross would name his album Rise To Power. His ...

Gliding down the escalator you enter a room with hundreds of people dancing. The music is filled with bass- thump, thump, thump, thump-thump, thump- it’s hardcore. This was the scene at a New Years party I attended a while back- seven or eight rooms with different styles of trance, techno, ...

This idea is so cool I can barely get my head around it. Toyota, to promote its Scion automobiles, has been releasing CD samplers of some fabulous, outside of the mainstream music. The latest of these is an ambitious two CD set entitled Daptone Records Remixed. Daptone ...

T.H. White’s new electronica album, The Private Spotlight, provides a relaxing atmosphere that is perfect for loungey background music. Its silky-smooth cocktail-time collection of funky electro beats is nothing groundbreaking, but it’s a good listen nonetheless. The Private Spotlight’s spacey mellow tracks emanate a dreamlike trance that is captivating. White ...

Who would expect a near-flawless, debut R & B disc from a guy from Chicago…who happens to have emigrated from Bratislava, Slovakia? It reads like a bad movie joke, but it’s not, not at all. Tomi --- the artist and the disc --- combines interesting compositions, flawless ...

Y Society’s Travel at Your Own Pace is that feel good hip-hop album you put in the player on a cruise with your less aggressive acquaintances. The beats are heavy but the content is very light. That’s not a bad thing, especially for me, coming off of a ...