Listen Before You Buy

Listen to Oberhofer’s cover of Kanye West’s “Runaway”.

An extremely late video for one of the standout tracks on Kanye’s last album has finally arrived.

Canadian jazz/hip-hop experimentalists BADBADNOTGOOD follow up their debut with another maddeningly good album, this time featuring more of their own compositions. This is a good one. Really.

G.O.O.D. Friday’s are back! Listen to “Mercy”, the first track of the upcoming G.O.O.D. Music album featuring Kanye West rapping alongside his label signees Pusha T, Big Sean and 2 Chainz.

Jay-Z & Kanye West reveal their epilpsy-inducing new video for “Niggas In Paris” from their album “Watch The Throne”. This shit cray.

One of the more impressive mashups I’ve heard quite a few months.

I feel I should preface this review by admitting that I’ve been a Kanye West fan ever since I heard “Jesus Walks”, and while I don’t admire Jay-Z‘s musical prowess quite as much as that of his protege, I have mad respect for him as a rap legend. Both of them brought their A-game to the table this [...]

This will be big. Mainly because of those two heavyweights of Jay-Z and Kanye West at the epicentre of the album, but also because it’ll promise to throw up some really great songs and after the first track we heard from it (“H.A.M”) garnered a lukewarm reception, the second track “Otis” got a much better [...]

Kendrick Lamar seems to understand the importance of a good album cover. For his newest release, “Section.80″ (Top Dawg Entertainment), Lamar picked an image that included the main themes in his music: a marijuana-filled pipe, bullets, a bible, and (of course) a condom box. This schizophrenic mix of imagery isn’t an accident; hell, the Compton-based [...]

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]

Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please [...]

Beyonce has been at the top of the pyramid ever since her days in Destiny’s Child. If you don’t love Beyonce, you obviously don’t like much pop music, and probably aren’t reading this. The rest of us, from hardcore Beyonce fiends who squealed in delight when she debuted “1+1″ on American Idol’s season finale, to [...]

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]

This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in Gmail [...]