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Joey Bada$$’s ALL AMERICAN BADA$$ Album Review
by: Jordan Montero
Joey Bada$$’s sophomore album, ALL AMERIKKKAN BADA$$, finds its grounding through the portrayal of the artist’s thoughts and feelings towards the black community's position in the modern American landscape. He reported that the record would be a powerful force in furthering the mentality of freedom and equality amongst his listeners. With the help of DJ Khalil, 1-900, and Pro Era mainstays Kirk Knight, Chuck Strangers, and Statik Selektah, Joey Bada$$ follows up his 2015 debut with a solid summer playlist of sorts bearing tracks with notable intention and sincerity within the smooth, Brooklyn-based rhymes. The first half of the album plays like a soundtrack for constant, sunset-lit drives; reminiscent of his 2012 hit “Waves”. While we’re all used to likening Joey’s style and beat preferences to that of 1990s rappers, he does not freight from delivering his lines over more… Read MoreMount Eerie Review - Nic Castillon
Mount Eerie, the solo project of songwriter Phil Elverum, performed to a hushed crowd at a rare seated show in the WOW Hall on Tuesday, April 4th. This show followed the release of his eighth LP written under the Mount Eerie moniker entitled A Crow Looked At Me. The album details the pain and emptiness surrounding the passing of his wife, Geneviève Castrée, in July of 2016 to pancreatic cancer. At this show, the audience was let into the deeply personal experience of Elverum’s grieving process while he performed the songs off of this most recent album.
The show began with a performance from Lori Goldston, a classically trained cellist whose work includes collaborations with the bands Earth and Nirvana, with her most recognizable work most likely being her appearance on Nirvana’s acclaimed live album MTV Unplugged in New York. She…
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