Around this same time, I kept running in to an old DJ friend of mine,Eman, who lived around my way in Fort Greene. We had met back around 95 or so. I was DJing at Rebar one night, playing classics. He came up to the booth, all bold and grinning and shit. I think I was play...
One of prog's most accessible groups, Yes combined old-fashioned songcraft along with the genre's usual endless noodling for some of the decade's most tuneful 17-minute suites. Turnover since the band's formation in the late '60s has been high, but the classic lineup's peak years in ...
“I don't even know what that means!”Roger HodgsontoldEclipsed, reflecting on the “question of whether or notSupertrampwere a progressive rock band.” Here’s where we consult the age-old rule: If you do prog enough of the time, you’re in the club. The band’s career arc is fasc...
It was Nas at his most aggressive, defiantly Queensbridge (“Straight up, shit is real/And any day could be your last in the jungle/Get murdered on a humble, guns’ll blast, ni–as tumble”), complete with Jungle and friends who were hanging out at the studio that day joining him in...
("Rare and Precious Chain"). Also crucial: Anderson's voice is infinitely more expressive than on 1987'sCrest of a Knave, largely shelving the obnoxious monotone that came off like a second-rate Knopfler. (Sadly, that flat delivery does make an appearance on "Wounded, Old and Treacherous....
“I don't even know what that means!”Roger HodgsontoldEclipsed, reflecting on the “question of whether or notSupertrampwere a progressive rock band.” Here’s where we consult the age-old rule: If you do prog enough of the time, you’re in the club. The band’s career arc is fasc...
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touring schedule since the '90s, but at one point these guys were famous for their unwillingness to leave the studio. This attention to detail gave them a platform to explore interests that took Steely Dan far from the average '70s rock band into jazz, old-school pop and righteous R&B. ...