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Throwback Thursday Review: Black on Both Sides | Mos Def

BY CHRIS MONTANA ★★★★★

Every Thursday we will be reviewing albums that are considered “classic”. With the 15th anniversary of this legendary album coming up next month, it is only appropriate that we start this new feature off with this legendary hip hop album. Continue reading Throwback Thursday Review: Black on Both Sides | Mos Def

Album Review: Goddess | Banks

BY VIKASH DASS ★★☆☆☆

Two stellar EP’s later, Banks finally blesses us with an LP, Goddess, that unfortunately proves to be another “safe” release to add to the shelves of the incredibly average and dull year of 2014.

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Album Review: At Best Cuckold | Avi Buffalo

BY TAYLOR POPE

“What’s in it for someone with nothing to do? What’s in it for me?” In 2010 Avi Zahner-Isenberg, front man of psychedelic indie rock group Avi Buffalo, asked this question with more earnest than his typical slacker self. Returning to true form with At Best Cuckold‘s lead single, he seems to have received an answer to that question. His response? “So What?” Four years after the Long Beach natives’ self titled debut, Avi Buffalo has emerged out of obscurity once again. Avi’s apathetic chant on “So What” seems to indicate that the crass twenty-something guitarist hasn’t grown much since we last saw him, but in fact At Best Cuckold proves to be a coy, vague portrait of a man who cared too much.

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