Category: Music
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Billy Bragg
Just because I dress like this, doesn’t mean Im a Communist. -Billy Bragg (To Have And Have Not) They’ve got a lot in common, Billy Bragg and Woody Guthrie. Bragg, an English protest singer, Guthrie an American one, separated by 50 years and an ocean, but linked by a musical tradition and the power of…
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Bim Skala Bim
Bim Skala Bim was one of America’s initial responses to Britain’s 2-Tone movement in the early ’80s. Also inspired by the Clash, UB40 and Bob Marley, the group has also become one of the longest-lasting ska groups in America and has the tightest lineup. Formed in Boston in 1983 by vocalist Dan Vitale and bassist…
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Billy Talent
PUNK rock inspired countless artists over the years, so isn’t it time for a band to bring that inspiration back around? Blistering with energy, Billy Talent captures the spirit, attitude, and explosiveness that first launched rock’s rebel cause. Though they describe themselves as a “walking, talking Seinfeld episode,” the group musically captures a pressing sense…
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Yummy Bingham
Straight from Forty Projects on the Southside of Jamaica, Queens, a young lady with more experience in the music industry than people twice her age is poised to take the field running. 19-year old Yummy is music royalty. The godchild of both R&B legend Chaka Khan and “New Jack Swing King” Aaron Hall, Yummy has…
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Biohazard
Brutal, no nonsense shows. That is what fans of hardcore thrive on most of all. And Biohazard knows what their fans want and aren’t afraid to give it to them. For nearly ten years, hardcore fans all over the world have related to Biohazard’s songs about pollution, racism, corruption, greed, envy, and the other injustices…
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Bitch and Animal
at an unnamed point in the late 20th century,the sperm of a metallurgist and the sperm of a math teacher mixed with the eggs of a tap dancer and a kindergarten teacher. the results of this cuntcocktion are the heroes of our story, bitch and animal. they lived separate and incomplete lives until they bumped…
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Bif Naked
Vulgar and vulnerable, strong, seductive, and smart as a whip, Bif Naked’s Lava/Atlantic debut, “I BIFICUS,” is an infectious, eclectic blend of raucous power pop hooks, emotive and revealing lyricism, and old-skool punk attitude. The album, like Bif herself, is unflinching in its confrontational honesty. Tracks such as “Moment of Weakness” or the chilling “Chotee”…
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Bif Naked – I Bificus
Artist: Bif Naked Title: I Bificus Label: Atlantic Rating: 7/10 Bif Naked seems to be the fairy princess of punk, but you may be surprised to find out she’s more pop than punk. She is coming to take us away from all of those synthetic artists we have to suffer through on radio every day.…
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Big Tymers – I Got That Work
Artist: Big Tymers Title: I Got That Work Label: Cash Money Rating: 6/10 Big Tymers are made up of Cash Money super-producer Mannie Fresh and Cash Money Co-CEO Baby Williams. The status is high, but how’s the sound? Hot Boy Lil’ Wayne drops on the super hot “Nigga Couldn’t Know” and arrives again on the…
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Big Tymers
Just what does it take to be a Big Tymer, an uptown shiner and number one stunner? Well, according to New Orleans natives Mannie Fresh and Bryan “Baby” Williams, the duo known as the BIG TYMERS, it takes a lot more than a few dollars in the bank, a fancy car and some iced-out jewelry.…