For Sareem Poems, love is the revolution. The Long Beach, CA emcee maintains a humble mentality while combining complex metaphors, catchy hooks, and heavy bass [...]

“In the Future” is a track from Jack Splash’s new mixtape, Heir To The Throne Vol. 1, released on November 11 (kicking off a three-part [...]

“People never expect me to be able to sing the way that I sing.” What? “That’s what I love about doing the music that I [...]

What began as a PBS music feature in 1976 is now the longest running concert music series in American television history. Austin City Limits began and continues as a PBS mainstay, but since 2002 also exists as an annual outdoor music festival, flooding the Austin Zilker Park for at least three days each year with music, fans, artists, and humane causes.

Originally published in Verbicide issue #25 The first thing that strikes you when you listen to any of the songs off of J*Davey’s debut double-release [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #24 Composers of music tailor its amorphous fabric into melodies that suit listeners of varying and discerning tastes. Fundamentally, this [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #24 What about working with Ice Cube on the George Clinton inspired album I Wish My Brother George Was Here [...]

The Readnex Poetry Squad’s sound is theatrical, but that’s mostly the slam-lyrical vibe at work. Social Issue is a revolutionary hip-hop album at heart, but [...]

No one would ever mistake rapper, producer, and label owner El-P as typical. He has been a trailblazer in hip-hop since 1995 by going the [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #21 On a brief break in his tour schedule, amid tending to the gardeners and playing with his kids, Michael [...]

Busdriver spits internal rhymes and metaphors at machine-gun rates with great ease. I have no doubt he ties his shoelaces, dresses himself, and drives to [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #20 The rise of Psalm One to respected rap artist isn’t what you’d call typical. As an only child growing [...]

Echoing effects are used in five out of 12 songs in this album, which basically sums it up. You’ll pick out nice moments of self-awareness, [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 From our seats in the otherwise empty bleachers, a jagged red mountain framed the horizon of our scene, and [...]

“When a beatmaker finds the right gems… and combines it with proper and not so proper techniques… along with not having superfluous verbage… it can [...]