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New Music Tuesday 05/15/12

Artist: Simian Mobile Disco Album: Unpatterns Genre: Soulful house Sounds like: House music for the home Lordly rating: I am, at this moment in time, opening a bottle of Louis Jadot 2006 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru Les Demoiselles Reviewer: Fubsy Numbles Strange beginnings, Simiam Mobile Disco (SMD). I have their first album, under their first incarnation [...]

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New Music Tuesday 05/08/12

Album: Strange Clouds Artist: B.o.B. Genre: Hip-Hop Sounds Like: a pretty decent album that nicely bridges Hip-Hop vibes and Pop Star dreams (3.5 out of 5; worthy of copping the album on sale and/or a decent amount of mp3s solo) Reviewer: DJ Fusion “Strange Clouds” is another solid, well constructed music project from Atlanta, Georgia’s [...]

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New Music Tuesday 04/24/12

Album: Tuskegee Artist: Lionel Richie Genre: Pop/New Country Sounds like: Despite itself, not half bad. Reviewer: Hex We love music because it’s personal. We love it because of the emotion it inspires when we listen to it. The way it reflects and sometimes can even change our moods. Music is the one true [...]

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New Music Tuesday 04/17/12 – Hex and Beth torture themselves

Get your minds out of the gutter! So this is how it went down (via email to the NMT team) Me: So Hex should do Bonnie Raitt and Train for me this week cause you love me Hex: Train is still around? Why!? God that band is awful. Me: if I have to sit through [...]

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New Music Tuesday 04/03/12

Album: Pink Friday…Roman Reloaded Artist: Nicki Minaj Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap/Pop Sounds Like: an unfortunate bout of your ears catching sonic syphilis from a crazy heaux with multiple personality disorder that’s trying too damn hard to make you like her…but the encounter only gives you flashes of an authentic good time (2.25 out of 5; if you’re [...]

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New Music Tuesday 03/20/2012

Album: Radio Music Society Artist: Esperanza Spalding Genre: Jazz Fusion/Pop Sounds like: Q-Tip couldn’t get a word in edgewise Reviewer: Hex Jazz music suffers from a generational crisis. In some ways, it always has. While still a viable musical form, Jazz is also a vital and important part of American cultural history — [...]

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Katy Perry covers “Ni***s in Paris”

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Hey. Even though she was across the pond in London, she knew not to say the N-Word (She said Ninja instead). I mean, she did do the song like someone named “Katy” and all… So what do ya’ll think of her cover?

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New Music Tuesday 03/06/12

Album: Blacktree Music Soul Seeds Vol 1 Artist: Various Artists Genre: R&B/Soul Sounds Like: Friday night happy hour at the new grown folks chill spot around the way Reviewer: Beth Saturday morning reading my newsfeed on Facebook I saw a post from one of my favorite music blogs SoulBounce talking about some new music from [...]

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New Music Tuesday 2/28/2012

Our first NMT of the new year! I know folks were wondering if we just said fugg y’all and y’all’s musical needs but that is not the case. Usually at the beginning of the year the releases are rather slow. With the Grammys and all I guess folks just say fugg a release at this [...]

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Music Staff’s Best of 2011: DJ Fusion’s List

The Roots – undun Right when there didn’t seem to be a decent concept album coming from…well, any genre…this year, The Roots came through heavy duty in the 4th quarter of 2011 music releases with “undun”. In under 40 minutes, the Philly Hip-Hop band put together a story of the fall of a young street [...]

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Music Staff’s Best of 2011: Fubsy’s List

Jamie Woon – Mirrorwriting What better place to start than with my favourite album of the year, by. A soul record from a new UK artist that reveals not only a voice good enough to carry these songs, but a songwriter of some talent, able to express the urban experience through soul’s filter or, to [...]

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Music Staff’s Best of 2011: Beth’s List

My list is R&B only. I just realized I didn’t really step outside of this genre at all in 2011. Warren Dean Flandez – Vintage Love Like I said in my review of this CD I have NO CLUE where this CD came from. But I’m happy it ended up in my collection. Why did [...]

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Music Staff’s Best of 2011: Hex’s List

It is that time of year again. This year will be a little different; each staff member will get their own day. We start off with my Hex and his best of 2011 list. And because Hex is super awesome he also provides you with the link to the original review. Enjoy! Travis Barker – [...]

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New Music Tuesday 12/20/2011

Album: The Dreamer/The Believer Artist: Common Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap Sounds Like: The Chi-Town Rapper Getting Back Into His Boom-Bap Roots…and coming out all the better for it (4.25 out of 5; a very good piece of work from start to finish; highly worthy of copping the album FULL PRICE, definitely worth grabbing a copy on sale [...]

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New Music Tuesday 12/13/11

Album: Back to Love Artist: Anthony Hamilton Genre: R&B/Soul Sounds Like: He could have done much better Reviewer: Beth Soul artist Anthony Hamilton is back with a new CD. Normally when AHam releases new music fans of real soul rejoice! AHam has a great voice and rarely disappoints musically. Until this CD. First indication that [...]

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