Tag Archives: A$AP Rocky
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ALBUM REVIEW: Young Thug shows his hand on ‘Punk’
It’s kind of wild that Punk is only the second album from Young Thug, considering his prolific output of 19 mixtapes. The rapper had expressed a desire to embrace a significant shift in tone on the follow-up to 2019’s So Much Fun. He sought to embody what he referred to as “real rap”…
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BROCKHAMPTON begins final act with ‘Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine’
Hip-hop’s favorite boy band, BROCKHAMPTON, has announced it is on the way out. The band’s newest release, Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine, is the first of two albums set to drop this year as a swan song. The group’s catalog grows its legendary status, as BROCKHAMPTON touches on everything from the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Slowthai plays it safe on sophomore album, ‘TYRON’
By Mason Meyers After his incredibly well-received and critically acclaimed first album, Nothing Great About Britain, Slowthai had cemented himself as an artist that wasn’t afraid to shy away from difficult topics and controversy. Cancel culture then took its shot at Tyron Frampton after he tried to fight a…
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Kyle Kohner’s top 100 Songs of 2018 (100-76)
Phoebe Bridgers performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Nov. 27, 2018. Photo: Chloe Catajan. The end has finally arrived—the end of 2018 that is. That means it’s year-end list time. With great albums comes great songs, and in a year that brought us plenty of great singles,…
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REVIEW: Treasure Island Music Festival returns leaner to new Oakland location
A$AP Rocky performs at Treasure Island Music Festival at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland on Oct. 13, 2018. Photos: Chloe Catajan OAKLAND — Perhaps JPEGMAFIA really did lose his cell phone Saturday morning. But maybe the industrial and noise hip-hop and experimental trap artist was upset that the…
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Tame Impala, A$AP Rocky to headline 2018 Treasure Island Music Festival
Photo: Diana Cordero A day after announcing the return of the Treasure Island Music Festival, its producers revealed the lineup for the 11th incarnation of the festival. Tame Impala and A$AP Rocky will headline the two-day event, which will be held Oct. 13 and 14 in a new location: Middle…
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16 new albums to watch for in 2018
Kanye West performs at the SAP Center in San Jose on Nov. 17, 2016. Photo: Paige K. Parsons Goodbye, 2017. It was great knowing you! Not really. Actually, 2017 sucked … except for the music; the music was great! Hello, 2018. It’s time to look forward to what is to come…
