Today, February 1st marks the 20th anniversary of Green Day’s third album Dookie, an important album of 90’s rock. Nirvana’s Bleach and Nevermind ushered in the end of hair metal and the rise of grunge. Dookie is the accessible 90s punk youth battle cry. With the release of Dookie on a major label, hardcore punks cried sellout at Green Day. They broke an unwritten code of underground music culture, making them outsiders to the outsiders. Maybe Green Day was trying to move away from preaching to …
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Hieroglyphics and Souls of Mischief member A-Plus and producer Aagee recently released a new solo album, Molly’s Dirty Water. A-Plus and Aagee give us an interesting mix of Hip-Hop and electronic music, from A-Plus rhymes, R&B samples to glitch electro infused instrumental tracks. Molly’s Dirty Water is based on A-Plus’s experiences in SF Bay Area electronic dance scene, probably all the raves Del got the Hiero crew playing at back in the day. One can assume at face value Molly’s Dirty Water is …
Brandy & Coke is a mini documentary on the UK Garage (UKG) music scene in the 90s & early to mid 2000’s. The mini documentary was directed by Ewen Spencer, a photographer who took photos at many UKG parties back in the day. Ewen Spencer recently released a book of those photos called UKG. Brandy & Coke covers the sounds, fashion, club events, raves, and the ups and downs of the UKG golden era. Although not as extensive in it’s …
Rapper O.C. of the D.I.T.C.(Diggin’ In The Crates) crew and Hip-Hop producer Ray West of Red Apples 45 record label have recently put out a project called Ray’s Cafe EP. O.C. is dropping rhymes that touch on “love, life, loss, and glory.” The setting of this nine track EP is a cafe, where O.C. paints scenes, gets introspective and makes observations, over Ray West’s jazzy Hip-Hop productions. Ray’s is definitely a good one for when your in the chill, introspective, and or …
Toilet Room is a parody of the global underground music event and online show, Boiler Room. According to their facebook page, Toilet is based in Sydney, Australia. Going along with the location theme that Boiler uses, a warehouse, hall, basement, art studio, or some other clandestine location, Toilet, is as the name suggests, shot in a restroom. Imitating the cramp, claustrophobic setting of many Boiler events, Toilet has the DJ set up by a sink, and the DJ surrounded by party goers dancing …
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