Photo by Swopes Chicago hip-hop has enjoyed a certain popularity increase over the past couple of years. Where 2012 saw the rise of Chief Keef and “Drill”, 2013 brought about a new flavor as listeners from across the country, initially hooked by the drill sound,…

It’s not where you start, but where you finish. The age-old fallacy is one everyone can live by, but likely  rings a bit more true for the members of Marrow. Six months ago band members Liam Cunningham, Macie Stewart and Lane Beckstrom made up the…

Photography By: William Olguin ИOTHING, the EP from Tucson rapper Isaiah Toothtaker and Wavves’ former drummer Jacob Safari, was certainly something. With Nine Inch Nails serving as the musical backbone to Toothtaker’s lyrical tongue, ИOTHING has become one of the Machina Muerte co-founder’s best projects out of…

“He signed us because we’re different, he signed Janelle (Monae) because she’s different. We sound so different, and that’s the thing with Vonnegut, you can’t really put a finger on it. It’s like ‘there’s a band, but he raps, is it pop? I don’t know…

It is hard to believe its already been a week since Lollapalooza, but as is known after the fourth of July summer is noticeably on its way out.  While the summer season is fading, the same can’t be said about Kanye West, whose LP with…

Leave it to a dreamer to walk off the beaten path. Mike Dreams does what most of us wish we were doing. He’s doing what he loves in the purest form. He’s been independently developing his name and his craft. Mike’s from Minneapolis, MN and…

  Lupe Fiasco once said, “Really love my city, and I hope that G-D bless it.”  And bless he did, uh, musically at least.  While Chicago got dissed from the Olympic Committee, saw their parking meters jacked, and all around sports failures, at least the…