A Tribe Called Quest made their mark by incorporating jazz into their laid-back hip-hip grooves. The beats are minimal and crisp, the embellishments spare, making Q-Tip and Phife Dawg’s cool...
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1991 turns out to be an active year, in both politics and culture. After the U.S. and NATO-led Operation Desert Shield fails to convince Saddam Hussain to remove his troops...
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It is a true testament to the decency of my college roommate during the 1988-1989 school year that he never burned my Sonic Youth Sister album, which I played fairly...
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I don’t know why, exactly, but there seems to be a gap in my awareness of rap music. During the last few years of the ‘80s, Sonic Youth and the...
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I have a joke I think to myself (it’s not good enough to tell others out loud, really) whenever I listen to Yo La Tengo: that my first Yo La...
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Some music scenes breed competition and division; others still foster collaboration. Massive Attack is a musical collective that rose from the ashes of the Wild Bunch, another musical collective from...
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I first heard Public Enemy in the summer of 1987. I’d read a record review of their debut album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show somewhere and picked it up. (I...
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I tend to be the kind of listener who prefers bands before they make it big, back in their early stages, when they have a distinct sound which they have...
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