Maco Mattox, known by his braggadocio rap persona OG Maco, might just be 2017’s diamond in the rough. Before making it in hip-hop, he was a singer in a screamo metal band. Growing up listening to all kinds of music, Maco found his biggest influences to be Kid Cudi and Black Sabbath, and you can […]
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AMERICANA | Amigo The Devil
Amigo The Devil is a breath of fresh air for both the social misfits and the straight-laced. Whoever is in the crowd, you can guarantee lots of whiskey, debauchery, and drunken singalongs. The tattooed burly man behind the project, Danny Kiranos, writes songs for the doomed. With morbid slapstick lyrics of love and death, a […]
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HIP-HOP | Migos
Georgia hip-hop trio Migos — consisting of members Quavo, Takeoff, and Offset — has come a long way since its formation in 2009. The Southern rappers broke into the mainstream in 2013 with the debut single “Versace” off its “Y.R.N.” mixtape. That track reached the US Billboards Top 100 chart as well as year-end lists […]
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Album review: ‘Finally, I Can Vibe’
MdotCoop “Finally, I Can Vibe” D.E.L.I. Entertainment mdotcoop.com Emcee and D.E.L.I. Entertainment founder MdotCoop has thoroughly woven himself into his new full-length, “Finally, I Can Vibe” — and you can definitely vibe to these tracks. From the intro to the end, this record puts you into some dimly lit, after-hours house party somewhere in Rochester. […]
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PROGRESSIVE ROCK | Umphrey’s McGee
Every generation has an American jam band for its time. Umphrey’s McGee is just that: a band consistently being compared to Phish and The Grateful Dead, with similar extended improvisational sets made of two parts, encouraged live audience tapings, and a constant touring schedule. What separates this group is its ever-evolving experimental, progressive style. Although […]
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COMEDY | Vermin Supreme
Aside from being a social anarchist, performance artist, political activist, author, and self-proclaimed “friendly fascist,” prankster Vermin Supreme has run for President of the United States four times. If elected, he promised every citizen a free pony and would pass federal law requiring mandated oral hygiene. This discordian legend can be found at protests and […]
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JAZZ/FUNK | AudioInFlux
When you take five talented musicians with a diversity of influences and stick them into a studio together, you’re bound to end up with an original sound. AudioInFlux is exactly that: a genre-bending fusion of jazz, funk, hip-hop, soul, and reggae, with soulful vocals and imaginative rhymes. Starting out in 2007 as a studio project, […]
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HIP-HOP | Young Thug
Atlanta-based rapper Jeffery Williams, better known as Young Thug, has become the rock star of the swag-rap, pop-trap game since 2010, breaking away from a traditional rapping style and lyricism. By contorting wide-ranging tones into abstract rhythmic slurs and often indecipherable mumbles, the rapper creates catchy hooks that don’t really need words. Young Thug released […]
