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May 4, 2012
Live: Lady Antebellum Cross Genres, Get Gooey At Radio City
Lady Antebellum w/Darius Rucker, Thompson Square Radio City Music Hall Thursday, March 3 Better than: Most things that can actually be described as antebellum. Two years ago, "Need You Now" pushed Lady Antebellum, a soulful country trio with a chart-topping record and single, out of Nashville and ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
WHO’S THE BAWSE?
Rick Ross rumbles through  Hammerstein Ballroom
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February 22, 2012
Live: 2 Chainz, Asher Roth, Ace Hood, Vado, And Gunplay Pass Through The Gramercy Theatre
2 Chainz, Asher Roth, Ace Hood, Vado, and Gunplay Gramercy Theatre Tuesday, February 21 Better than: Clicking through the 50 best hip-hop jumpsuits. Is a show still a success if the audience has a great time, but never quite figures what's being promoted? Last night at the Gramercy Theatre, a webs ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Live: 2 Chainz Has All Eyes On Him At S.O.B.'s
2 Chainz w/ Marcus Manchild S.O.B.'s Monday, January 30 Better than: Spending today watching the 50 or so videos that were taken during the performance. 2 Chainz is tall. I was going to guess 6'5", but an internet answers site—and we all know how reliable they are—is telling me he's 6'8" ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
SAY MY NAME
2 Chainz makes his NYC debut
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January 12, 2012
Rick Ross Gets Larger Than Life On Rich Forever
When will Rick Ross stop improving? All bets are currently off, because right now—as in right this very moment, in the immediate aftermath of Rich Forever—Rick Ross is the best rapper alive. Not too long ago, he was arguably the worst. Lots of other rappers have made The Leap from ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Sound Of The City's 11 Clickiest Posts Of 2011
We're about to close up shop here until 2012, and what better way to send out the year that birthed trollgaze than to run down the 11 posts on Sound of the City that generated the most pageviews over the course of the past 52 weeks? Enjoy this look back on the psyche of our readers, and have a happy ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Radio Hits One: How The Whistle Became Pop's Secret Weapon Of 2011
After Billboard released its 2011 year-end charts on Friday I pored over them, looking for patterns and trends with which I could make sense of the year in pop. If someone asked you to pinpoint "the sound of popular music in 2011," there are countless fads and running themes that you could po ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Radio Hits One: Playing Armchair A&R With The Singles From 2011's Biggest And Best Albums
The two big formats that have long ruled over popular music are the single and the album. They have a great duality between them: the song and the collection; the sliver and the whole; the appetizer and the main course. Albums are the full-length format long considered pop music's ultimate a ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Q&A: araabMUZIK On His Influences, His Name, And Filling His Records With Crazy Beats
Innovation keeps culture moving forward. Some hungry kid will always figure out how to put a new spin on things his predecessors have already done. Just ask araabMUZIK. He's still young, but his production track record is strong—he's worked on tracks by Tragedy Khadafi, 50 Cent and Vad ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
Live: Fool's Gold Day Off Party Turns into a Relay Rave
Fools Gold Day Off City Winery Monday, September 5 Better than: Catching bullets at a parade. New York City empties out on Labor Day weekend, but for the past two years those who've stuck around have been able to see behind the curtain on what's next, on what's nexter-than-next, and the emerging ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Live: Grand Wizzard Theodore Brings It Back, Fred The Godson No-Shows At Simpson St. Block Party
Grand Wizzard Theodore, Illstyle and Peace Productions, Hip-Hop Kung Fu, and more Simpson Street, Casita Maria Saturday, August 6 Better than: Cowboys & Aliens. "Some of you might say I'm preaching to the choir," Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon, a former Zulu Nation member and our master of ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Live: The 106 & Park Tour Stops At Irving Plaza, Goes On Forever
The 106 & Park Tour: Diggy Simmons, Mindless Behavior, Lil Twist & Tyga Irving Plaza Thursday, July 28 Better than: a night spent without screaming. It's like a horror movie: I can still hear their screams. When I close my eyes, all I hear is screams. BET's 106 & Park is an after-school music vi ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Live: Wiz Khalifa Smokes Out Central Park
Wiz Khalifa w/Big Sean, Chevy Woods Central Park Monday, July 25 Better than: Hanging out with your parents. In September 2008, Wiz Khalifa stood onstage in front of less than ten people on the Bowery, the whole of Crash Mansion abandoned after performances by Mickey Factz and Charles Hamilton. ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Live: Kreayshawn Hits The Box For Less Than 15 Minutes
Kreayshawn The Box Thursday, July 21 Better than: Not being in an air-conditioned room. Kreayshawn—an Odd Future outlier and Lil' B acolyte—has skyrocketed upwards since her arrival on May 16, 2011. In the immediate days after "Gucci Gucci" hit YouTube, she spent time in the studio wi ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
The Top Ten Failed First Singles Off The Game's The R.E.D. Album
This list began as a joke, but the longer I contemplated it, the more depressing its basic concept became. Consider: not only could I easily string together ten of Game's fruitless attempts to force label executives to release The R.E.D. Album, his followup to 2008's LAX; I had to make decisi ... More >>
Music
June 1, 2011
Mike Bigga Lets Loose
The Atlanta MC's Pl3dge is an exhilarating, politically charged ride
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April 27, 2011
"The Voice" Closes Its Eyes And Takes On "American Idol"
So: The Voice. The big challenge. American Idol has been the dominant ratings force in American TV for a full decade now, but none of the other networks has really managed to do much with that show's format, which seems like a relatively easy thing to steal. (Or they haven't made a big singin ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
The 10 Best Post-Prison Lil Wayne Songs (Plus the Other 16!)
It's been almost 5 months, or 141 days, or 3384 hours, or 203,040 minutes since Lil Wayne got out of jail. And in that time, by our count, he's made 26 new musical appearances. A few of these might have been recorded before he went to jail (pre-probation-Wayne's maniacally hoarse voice genera ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Top Ten Greatest Rap-Acronym Anthems
Kanye West and Jay-Z's Lex Luger-produced "H.A.M." is a creative union of the two biggest currently recording rap stars in the world -- as the lead single to the duo's upcoming Watch the Throne project, it's a feisty statement of intent. But more importantly, it's a fresh edition to the canon ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2011
Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: Rick Ross Lies, the Rolling Stones Plunder, and Taylor Swift Triumphs
Kanye West and Jay-Z's Lex Luger-produced "H.A.M." is a creative union of the two biggest currently recording rap stars in the world -- as the lead single to the duo's upcoming Watch the Throne project, it's a feisty statement of intent. But more importantly, it's a fresh edition to the canon ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Week in Review: Top Train-Wreck Bloggers
Presenting... burger-core. Pic by Puja Patel.In the week we spent holed up in Sound of the City headquarters preparing Pazz & Jop results, we still found time to report back from shows by former Talking Heads members Tom Tom Club, former Deee-Lite member, Lady Miss Kier, former the Pack membe ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
Top 10 Lex Luger Tracks You Probably Haven't Heard (But Probably Should)
In 2010, a new generation of rap producers, from AraabMuzik to Droop-E, made huge strides both artistically and commercially. But none distinguished themselves more than Lex Luger, the 19-year-old Virginia native behind both Rick Ross's "B.M.F (Blowin' Money Fast)" and a good deal of Waka F ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Listen: Kanye West And Jay-Z, "H.A.M."
And thus, as threatened, did Kanye West and Jay-Z debut the first track off their upcoming Watch the Throne just past the witching hour on 1-11-11. "H.A.M." is gleefully insane: Kanye chatters about white girls, Jay plays chicken with a Mack truck, and producer Lex Luger devises a hilariously ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Zach Baron's Top 10 Singles of 2010
Rich aliens, rich alienation. Still via connect.in.comWith sincere apologies to Chuck Eddy, my two favorite records of the year also produced my two favorite singles: funny how that happens. And though ten songs increasingly feels like about forty too few, especially when Dr. Luke is working, ... More >>
Music
December 1, 2010
AraabMuzik, MPC Hero
The demonic dance-floor bombast of hip-hop producer Abraham Orellana
Music
October 6, 2010
Waka Flocka Flame Is Yelling at You for a Reason
Why Flockaveli is hard to listen to and even harder to not listen to
Blogs
August 31, 2010
The Many Disturbing Faces of a Shirtless Rick Ross
More than anyone else, producer Lex Luger has had rap's summer on lock. His two booming, window-rattling tracks on Rick Ross's Teflon Don--"MC Hammer" and "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)"--have been inescapable, from cars to picnics to other rappers, who have repeatedly borrowed both beats. Some ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Rick Ross May Have Just Responded to Young Jeezy (Who Also Put Out A Mixtape Today)
Though Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy is playing it ultra cool regarding "Death Before Dishonor," the "B.M.F."-checking freestyle he released a couple days ago, it seems pretty clear the song was aimed at Rick Ross. (His denial, at MTV, is less than convincing: "That's for anybody. I got n---as i ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Hear the New Kanye West Track: "See Me Now," Featuring Beyoncé and Charlie Wilson
Here's how fast things move these days: Kanye West premiered his new No I.D/Lex Luger-produced single, "See Me Now," on Angie Martinez's HOT 97 show about ten minutes ago. Beyoncé, who sings the hook along with Charlie Wilson, finished recording her vocals, according to 'Ye, at about 5 a.m. ... More >>

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