Dating back to his college radio show at Vanderbilt University, Stones Throw General Manager Eothen Alapatt has made a habit of digging up long-forgotten music legends. His love for musical history is at the heart of what he’s done for the past 10 years. All that said to lay the foundation for where [...]
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The word “tweener” in sporting vernacular is usually employed to describe a player with a long list of “not quites.” Not quite tall enough to play a certain position, not quite fast enough for another. Not quite this or that. The normal result is that a versatile and talented athlete washes out [...]
I do record reviews for the magazine every month, but I very rarely recommend records personally to friends. Shine Through is an exception. I’ve talked about this record to anyone who would listen for almost a month now. It is one of those records that cannot be praised highly enough. Aloe [...]
Georgia Anne Muldrow landed squarely on most people’s radar thanks to her guest spots on the Platinum Pied Pipers album. Singing over the PPP’s brand of Detroit funk, she showed a voice that seemingly had no inhibitions about hitting any note in any way it saw fit. Turns out that appearance was just [...]
There’s nothing at all wrong with this album, except that it’s not an album at all. Donuts is essentially a beat-tape. It’s ideas that were probably meant to be fleshed out at some point in the future. This is not an instrumental hip-hop album conceived and executed to stand on its own as a creative [...]