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In this edition of Staff Picks: the Simmerkane II Bundle from songwriter and founding member of Dispatch and State Radio, Chadwick Stokes. Originally released in 2011, Simmerkane II is a collection of songs inspired by Stokes’ time spent hopping freight trains through the backwoods and small towns of the United States. Stokes assumes the ever…
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In this edition of Staff Picks: a “past futuristic rhyme animal”. French rapper Mattic blends touches of jazz and classic soul to create a hip hop aesthetic that is just as much a throwback as it is a step forward. The Intro to Dr. Outer bundle provides a taste of what can be found on…
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In this edition of Staff Picks: Great Expectations, a new mixtape that might just live up to its name. Irangeles (Iran X Los Angeles) lyricist Malkovich’s album was written around the world. And it sounds that way. Unlike a lot of hip hop, it’s defiantly anti-regional: not East Coast or West Coast; a sound that’s…
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In this edition of Staff Picks: an inside look at the Oscar-shortlisted film The Road Home, Rahul Gandotra’s exploration of identity and otherness in the Himalayas. A young boy of Indian descent escapes from a remote boarding school, plane ticket to London in hand. In running away, he learns he can’t run from everything; especially…
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In this edition of Staff Picks: punk and rock and friendship; all, maybe, in equal measure. Download Radical Friends, February’s forty-track mixtape Bundle, courtesy of the fine people over at Tangled Talk Records. Consider it your crash course in UK hardcore, which feels about right for an end-of-Monday. Listen up: new music from Gnarwolves, The…