Half-Year: DiS' Most Read Articles, Reviews and Threads of 2012 (so far!)
DiS' most read features, reviews and messageboard threads of the first half of 2012... »
DiS' most read features, reviews and messageboard threads of the first half of 2012... »
Here it is. A playlist of ten carefully selected tracks, hand-picked from the week of whatever has gone up on the website. Here you'll find tracks by Sacred Harp, The Cure, Dan Mangan, Death Grips, When Saints Go Machine plus a few more.»
The first time I listened to Ex-Military, it hit me. No, not some thought-bubble realisation, I mean it physically felt like it hit me. Death Grips are a musical embodiment of the rotten core that more and more seek to ignore in the 21st century. »
Hello and welcome to a new regular column documenting hip hop through the mixtape, and other loosely released rap records that I decide to include. Because let’s face it, the term mixtape has become basically meaningless in recent years other than being synonymous with being given away for free. Importantly to this column, though, the ready availability of mixtapes says nothing of their supposed quality, many of them bettering the content on official albums made by the very same artists. »