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Rome (Armand Hammer Album)
''Rome'' (sometimes stylized as ''ROME'') is the second studio album by American hip hop group Armand Hammer. It was released via Backwoodz Studioz in 2017. Critical reception Phillip Mlynar of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album an 8.1 out of 10, writing, "the two emcees have delved deeper and burrowed further into the leftfield, carving out a shadowy nook that not only shuns the commercial trappings of the mainstream but also moves on from the boom-bap theology that can plague these kinds of records." Paul Thompson of ''Vulture'' gave the album a favorable review, saying, "''Rome'', their newest record, is also their best, a master class in style and form, and a pointed look at the grand and tiny grasps for power people make every day, from private property seizures to nationalist Facebook rants." He added, "It's a record that fully utilizes each artist's greatest strengths, and stands up to any rap album released in 2017." Charles Aaron of ''City Pages'' described the album as "a gri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Hammer (music Group)
Armand Hammer is an American hip hop duo from New York City that was formed around 2013. The duo consists of Billy Woods and Elucid. Career In September 2013, Armand Hammer released a mixtape, ''Half Measures''. It was produced by Steel Tipped Dove, Blockhead, Uncommon Nasa, and Small Pro, among others. In October that year, the duo released the first studio album, ''Race Music'', which was produced by the likes of Steel Tipped Dove, Marmaduke, Willie Green, and Blue Sky Black Death. ''Tiny Mix Tapes'' called it "a potent record about life, art, sex, drugs, politics, and violence." ''The Village Voice'' included it on the "10 Best New York City Rap Albums of 2013" list. On October 25, 2013, "Shark Fin Soup" was included on '' Spin''s "Rap Songs of the Week" list. In 2014, the duo released an EP, ''Furtive Movements''. ''The Village Voice'' included it on the "10 Best New York City Rap Albums of 2014" list. In 2017, the duo released a studio album, ''Rome''. ''Stereogum'' plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hip Hop Music
Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music Music genre, genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African Americans, African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip-hop includes rapping often enough that the terms can be used synonymously. However, "hip-hop" more properly denotes an entire hip-hop culture, subculture. Other key markers of the genre are the disc jockey, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and hip hop production, instrumental tracks. Cultural interchange has always been central to the hip-hop genre. It simultaneously borrows from its social environment while commenting on it. The hip-hop genre and culture emerged from block parties in ethnic minority neighborhoods of New York City, particularly The Bronx, Bronx. DJs began expanding the instrumental Break (music), breaks of popular records when they noticed how excited it would make the crowds. The extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Segal
Kenny Segal (born December 3, 1979), also known as Syndakit, is an American record producer and DJ based in Los Angeles, California. In 2018, ''Mixmag'' described him as "one of the best hip-hop producers in the city." He has been a member of Team Supreme, The Kleenrz, and The Jefferson Park Boys. Early life Kenny Segal was born and raised in Rockville, Maryland. He played cello in school orchestras. He attended University of Southern California on a computer engineering scholarship. Subsequently, he changed his major to audio recording. Career Kenny Segal originally played drum and bass at the Konkrete Jungle party in the 1990s. At Konkrete Jungle, he met rappers from the Project Blowed collective. After being inspired by Los Angeles' underground rap scene, he eventually switched to hip hop. He was one of the first musicians to perform at the Low End Theory party. In 2008, Kenny Segal released ''Ken Can Cook''. A concept album based around food and cooking, it included guest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JPEGMafia
Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks (born October 22, 1989), known professionally as JPEGMafia (stylized in all caps as JPEGMAFIA), is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. Born in Flatbush, Flatbush, Brooklyn, he signed with Deathbomb Arc to release his debut studio album, ''Black Ben Carson'' (2016) and his second album ''Veteran (JPEGMafia album), Veteran'' (2018), which received widespread critical acclaim. His third album, ''All My Heroes Are Cornballs'' (2019) was released through EQT Recordings and entered the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, and had signed to Republic Records, Republic for the release of his fourth album ''LP!'' (2021); both were met with continued critical acclaim. In 2023, he released his collaborative studio album ''Scaring the Hoes'' with fellow alternative hip hop, alternative rapper Danny Brown through AWAL. In 2024, he released his fifth studio album ''I Lay Down My Life for You.'' Early life and education Hendricks was born in Flatbush, Brook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraffin (album)
''Paraffin'' is the third studio album by American hip hop group Armand Hammer. It was released via Backwoodz Studioz in 2018. Originally released on vinyl only, the album was later released digitally, on cassette (by PTP), and on CD. Critical reception Nathan Stevens of ''Spectrum Culture'' gave the album a 4 out of 5, saying: "It's terrifyingly easy to get lost in ''Paraffin'' thanks to a penchant for beat switches and smoggy beats rolling into each other." Paul A. Thompson of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album an 8.1 out of 10, calling it "a record that's uniquely attuned to the political, physical, and ethical realities of 2018 without being weighed down by its pop culture arcana or its attendant industry concerns." Tom Breihan of ''Stereogum'' wrote: "Like a lot of the best albums of 2018, ''Paraffin'' is an extended meditation on what it's like to be black in America — a place that's always been hostile to blackness and that's finding ways to make that hostility even more obvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impose (magazine)
''Impose'' is an American Kansas-based website covering independent music Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a DIY ethic, do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties aff ... and related culture. It was founded in 2002 as a magazine by Brooklyn, New York–based Derek Evers as a print-only magazine, and has since expanded to include a website and an affiliated record label. Since 2008, it has stopped printing a magazine. In April 2016, the brand and website was sold to Kansas-based company Answer Media. References External links *Impose Magazine Tenth Anniversary ''the New Yorker'' Defunct magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 2002 Magazines disestablished in 2008 Magazines published in Kansas Online magazines with defunct print editions Online music magazines published in the United States [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festival (launched in Chicago in 2006), the video site ''Pitchf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulture (website)
''Vulture'' is an American entertainment news website. It is the standalone pop culture section of ''New York'' magazine. Its tagline is "Devouring Culture". History ''Vulture'' debuted in April 2007 as an entertainment blog on nymag.com, the website of ''New York Magazine''. Melissa Maerz and Dan Kois were the founding editors. The initial focus was television and film news, especially recaps of recent television episodes. Over time, it expanded to publish news and criticism in other areas of high and low culture, such as music, books, comedy, and podcasts. In the process of spinning off from ''New York Magazine'', ''Vulture'' website was redesigned in 2010 from a blog format to look more like a "full-fledged" online magazine. ''Vulture'' subsequently moved to an independent URL/ domain (Vulture.com) in February 2012. The first Vulture Festival, an annual two-day event featuring celebrities from various pop culture fields, took place in New York City in 2014. ''Vulture'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (magazine)
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'' and ''The New York Times Magazine'', it was brasher in voice and more connected to contemporary city life and commerce, and became a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles about American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Pete Hamill, Jacob Weisberg, Michael Wolff (journalist), Michael Wolff, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. It was among the first "lifestyle magazines" meant to appeal to both male and female audiences, and its format and style have been emulated by many American regional and city publications. ''New York'' in its earliest days focused almost entirely on coverage of its namesake city, but beginning in the 1970s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Pages
''City Pages'' was an alternative newspaper serving the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area. It featured news, film, theatre and restaurant reviews and music criticism, available free every Wednesday. It ceased publication in 2020 due to a decline in ads and revenue related to the COVID-19 pandemic. History On August 1, 1979, publishers Tom Bartel and Kristin Henning debuted ''Sweet Potato'', a monthly newspaper focused on the Twin Cities music scene. The first issue featured pop band The Cars on the cover. In October 1980, ''Sweet Potato'' went biweekly. On December 3, 1981, the newspaper went weekly and was renamed ''City Pages''. ''City Pages'' competed for readership with the ''Twin Cities Reader'' until 1997, when Stern Publishing purchased ''City Pages'' in March and the ''Twin Cities Reader'' the following day, shuttering it immediately. Bartel and Henning left ''City Pages'' in the fall of 1997. Tom Bartel's brother Mark was named publisher after Bartel and Henning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stereogum
''Stereogum'' is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary. The site was created in January 2002 by Scott Lapatine. ''Stereogum'' was one of the first MP3 blogs and has received several awards and citations, including the PLUG Award for Music Blog of the Year, '' Blender''s Powergeek 25, and '' Entertainment Weekly''s Best Music Websites. The site was named an Official Honoree of the Webby Awards in the music category and won the OMMA Award for Web Site Excellence in the Entertainment/Music category. In 2011, ''Stereogum'' won '' The Village Voice''s Music Blog of the Year. History The site was named after a lyric from the song "Radio #1" by the French electronic duo Air. In late 2006, ''Stereogum'' received an investment from Bob Pittman's private investment entity The Pilot Group. In November 2007, it was purchased by SpinMedia (formerly known as Buzz Media). April 2008 saw the launch of '' Videogum'', a sister site f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mach-Hommy
Mach-Hommy is an American rapper and record producer. He is known for concealing his real name and face in all public appearances, a practice that has led him to be described as "one of hip-hop's most elusive artists". Mach-Hommy has gained a cult following as a result of his work ethic and sense of mystery. His lyrics are often heavily related to the social and political history of his Haitian heritage. Though he predominantly raps in English, he also frequently incorporates Haitian Kreyòl into his lyrics. He disallows his lyrics from being posted on lyric sites, describing such republishing as the sites "monetizing" his work, and he charges hundreds and even thousands of dollars for his releases, many of which are not available on streaming services. Early life Mach-Hommy was raised predominantly in Newark, New Jersey, but also spent much of his childhood in Port-au-Prince. His father was a folk guitarist, and Mach credits his father's musical style as an influence on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
