BORED STIFF - Explainin' / Timeless Freestyle Fellowship, Hieroglyphics, Hobo Junction, the Log Cabin / Mystik Journeymen / 3 Melancholy Gypsys / Living Legends family… These bands laid the foundation of the West Coast Underground hip-hop scene, but they […]
POWER STRUGGLE - Arson at the Petting Factory One day, people will discover Oddjobs again. Because, through the 5 years of their existence, they delivered quite regularly good quality albums. Because they ran alongside some indie heavyweights, like Cannibal Ox, Aesop Rock, Atmosphere and Eyedea, and that, consequently, crate-diggers of the future will have no difficulty tracking them. For these reasons, they won't be dropped into the dustbin of history. They deserve better than that.
BUSDRIVER - Temporary Forever This is a natural phenomenon. Each time we understand that an artist with a tremendous talent and potential will never take off, once we see that he will stay a well-kept secret for the happy few, that he will forever release imperfect albums and miss his appointment with fame, we also realize that his greatest record, in the absence of the expected masterpiece, may finally be the first that generated a buzz. As far as Busdriver is concerned, this record was Temporary Forever.
ALL NATURAL - No Additives, No Preservatives The story of All Natural is typical of indie rappers. Here we have, by the end of the 90's, a promising band coming from Chicago - by then not a rap stronghold yet. These guys start negotiating a contract with the Wild […]
