Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows
Syl Johnson was a blues and soul artist who never made the big time like Al Green, yet today he’s one of the most sampled performers around.
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Dr. Lonnie Smith
Evolution (Blue Note Records). Review by James Mann.
Rock The Bells
Rock the Bells kicked off its 2009 hip-hop festival tour in Chicago – just two days after Michael Jackson’s sudden death. Chris Catania took in this year’s finest while ruminating on the psychology of a crowd in mourning.
Ivan Ives
LA Heat (No Threshold). Review by Chris Catania.
Andre 3000
Class of 3000: Music Volume One (La Face Records / Cartoon Network). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Funkstorung
Appendix (K7!). Review by Bob Ham.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard Is An Ol’ Dirty Ghost Now…
But you’d better believe that the ODB is having a blast as the ODG! J. Noise tries to see a silver lining in the first (of many) post-mortem cash-in albums.
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Ugodz-illa
The Hillside Scramblers (INDIEgo). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Maylay Sparks
Graymatter (Rapster). Review by Stein Haukland.
Maylay Sparks
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Gza
Legend of the Liquid Sword (MCA). Review by Bill Campbell.
Khalito’s Way
The EP (Etheric). Review by Stein Haukland.
Chris Thomas King
Dirty South Hip-Hop Blues (21st Century Blues). Review by Rob Walsh.
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Antipop Consortium
Arrhythmia (Warp). Review by Bill Campbell.
D12
Devil’s Night (Shady/Interscope). Review by Julio Diaz.
Wu-Tang Clan
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