Author: Owen Carty
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Still Flying: Balloonerism
Balloonerism – the second posthumous Mac Miller release since 2020’s Circles – released on January 15th, two days before what would have been the late rapper’s 33rd birthday. Miller recorded the bulk of the album between 2013 and 2014, around the same time as the release of Mac’s hit mixtape Faces. However, due to Faces…
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Geordie Greep Strums A New Sound
“No more Black Midi. It’s iver. Over.” The now infamous words spoken by Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep on the 10th of August, 2024 spelled the end of the critically acclaimed British avant-prog band. Greep caught the band’s other two members off guard. In a tweet by bassist Cameron Picton after the news broke, he…
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Lay Down My Life: JPEGMAFIA and Jane Remover @ The Newport
Photo credit Levi Manchak, via Wikimedia Commons If JPEGMAFIA has been anything in this decade, it’s consistent. The critically acclaimed rapper and producer, Benington Hendricks (aka JPEGMAFIA) recently released this past August his third full length LP of the 2020s: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU, a record as full of frenetic movement as…