Fat Trel
Notable Releases of the Week (5/5)
This week’s Notable Releases include billy woods’ first album with Kenny Segal in four years, Drain’s Epitaph debut, Fred again.. & Brian Eno’s gorgeous collab LP, and more…
Failure, Young Thug, Ty Dolla $ign, Travis Scott, Speedy Ortiz and more playing Yahoo SXSW shows at Brazos Hall
If Yahoo! is trying to earn more cred with the hipsters, their SXSW plans are a good start. They’re taking over Brazos Hall (and renaming it Yahoo’s Brazos Hall) for the entirety of the festival for a few pretty killer official showcases there…
Nicole Atkins playing tree-lighting at the Seaport, 'Last Waltz' tribute, Scott Walker tribute & more
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Singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins has some stuff going on in the NYC-area (as usual) before the year ends, including the 30th annual tree-lighting at the South Street Seaport on November 29, which Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love sang at in past years…
SOB's statement on recent shooting that happened there
On September 11 (technically early 9/12), a gunman opened fire in South Village club SOB’s during a release party for Fat Trel’s SDMG mixtape, wounding four people…
Talib Kweli, A$AP Ferg, Fat Trel, Ratking, Nitty Scott, & more upcoming hip hop shows
A$AP Ferg at Brooklyn Bowl in December (more by Brook Bobbins)
Talib Kweli, who just played SOB’s earlier this week, is playing two nights at Brooklyn Bowl (3/17-18) with a live band this March with Cory Mo…
Joey Bada$$ releasing new single, playing Downtown Brooklyn College Festival, CMJ & other shows (dates)
Young Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ put out two of the strongest rap releases of the year so far with 1999 and Rejex, both of which are highly indebted to the golden age era sound of Illmatic, Ready to Die, Reasonable Doubt, and other classics of that kind…
"City Council Approves Pot Tickets Over Arrests;" The Smokers Club are coming to Bottom Lounge
The Chicago City Council Wednesday voted 43-3 to approve a new city pot policy.
The ordinance gives police the option to issue a ticket for possession of 15 grams of marijuana or less…
this week in Hip Hop (Northside, NXNE, Kool Keith, EPMD, Yasiin Bey, RJD2, Tech N9ne, Black Thought + Rahzel, GZA & more)
Ultramagnetic MCs at ATP NJ 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)
As mentioned in What’s going on? last night, Prodigy‘s upcoming “Queens Day” show at Irving Plaza, which was supposed to happen next week (6/19) has been cancelled…
SpaceGhostPurrp on 4AD, playing May shows; Fat Tony plays Chaos in Tejas & Brooklyn in June
SpaceGhostPurrp at BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Miami rapper/producer SpaceGhostPurrp, who played our hip hop stage at Hotel Vegan this past SXSW, is set to releases his debut commercial album, Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp, on his new label, 4AD, a label otherwise best known for their post-punk/goth/dream pop/etc output…
Fader Fort, Making Time & FIXED CMJ parties
Though most of the lineup has yet to be revealed – except for King Krule, Metronomy (who also play MHOW), Purity Ring, Fat Trel (pictured above) and Bleached (more on them in a sec), this year’s CMJ Fader Fort RSVP is up and running for their 10/21 and 10/22 shows at 443 w 18th St in Manhattan…
