West Orange, New Jersey emcee GDP has announced his new full-length album Useless Eaters will be dropping on March 29th via Run For Cover Records (Title Fight, Transit, Man Overboard). With the announcement is a double premiere from the album including a video for the song Neural Circuitry (directed by Josh Sandler with beat produced by live electronic act Frozen Gentlemen) on GDP’s revamped website. Print music and art magazine Alarm Press has also premiered the song Quintuplets today on their online site.
Combining futuristic grime with homage to hip hop’s past, Useless Eaters” is GDP’s most focused effort as well as his darkest. Regarded as one of the one of the hardest working artists in hip-hop. The album was mixed and mastered by GDP and his frequent collaborator Pistol in the midst of a 52 date national tour that he booked himself. Aside from Frozen Gentlemen, Beats were handled by Melbourne Australia’s Aoi and Perth, Australia’s DOS4GW whom GDP met while supporting The RZA (Wu-Tang Clan) on Australian dates. Appearing on the album are legendary emcees Tame One (The Artifacts) and Young Zee (The Outsidaz).
After years of relentless touring and consistent releases, GDP has gained respect from many of the same hip hop legends that inspired him growing up as well as forward thinking hardcore and punk artists. He has shared the stage with artists ranging from Wu Tang Clan, Dead Prez, Rah Digga, and Masta Ace to Trap Them, Skeletonwitch, Suburban Scum, Product Of Waste, and Dead to Me. GDP is set to play a string of East and West Coast release shows followed by some European dates.
TOUR DATES (more to be announced shortly)
3/5- @ Cyclecide Bike Collective Death House- Hackettstown, NJ w/ Pistol
3/10- @ Maggie McGuires- Cranford, NJ w/ Choc Bread, St. Joe Louis
3/11- Laundromat- New Brunswick, NJ w/ Pistol, Space Jeez, Bartlomein
The first single off A.M. Breakups’ debut album, The Cant Resurrection. The Utica, New York native is only twenty-four but has already been on the scene for years, starting with his work with MC Eleven as the duo 11 A.M. and growing into collaborations with artists across the indie-rap spectrum; Teddy Faley, Super Chron Flight Brothers, Nasa, K-Swift and V8 of Chicago’s TFD crew. With a strong local following, rabid online fan base and a solid resume in the scene, Breakups is releasing The Cant Resurrection, an LP where stark production, heavy with layers and texture is interspersed with verses from some of this new millennium’s most promising indie talent. The album features Billy Woods of the critically-acclaimed Super Chron Flight Brothers, Baltimore luminary Teddy Faley, Chicago’s V8 and of course, classic verses from Breakups’ partner-in-rhyme Eleven. the Cant Resurrection is another in a line of bold, unique releases by Backwoodz Studioz and continues the label’s tradition of progressive, critically-acclaimed indie hip-hop out of New York, following in the footsteps of Vordul Mega’s Megagraphitti and Super Chron Flight Brothers' 2010 LP Cape Verde.
Today we have a special territorial posse record titled "Houston Smokers Only." This chiefers joint showcases the talents of Devin The Dude, Killa Kyleon, Lil O, Fame Sity, Mookie Jones, Yung Redd, MUG, Scooby & Surreal. The track was produced by Trakk Sounds & B Don of GLP. The video will premiere within the next two weeks.
Here is the second release from Mike Beatz & Adonis' upcoming album Boom Bap. They call on veteran MCs Guilty Simpson and Reks for this track. It also has vocals of Norwegian singer/songwriter Rebekka B Maeland.
Debut Single Reveals Burgeoning Gowanus Indie Scene
The Song:
"Robert Smith/Emily Haines, where are you?" Lightouts started out with that one simple question, posted as a want ad by group founder Gavin Rhodes near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York. The only sane person to reply to this query was vocalist Greg Nelson, a seasoned veteran of the NYC music scene (Lady Gaga opened for him at a Lower East Side club in 2007) who would prove to be just the type of person Lightouts needed. After a clear bond of musical genres, the two met up and started their auditory adventure together, Greg Nelson as the singer and Gavin Rhodes as the primary songwriter. The resulting sound emanating from Lightouts' sonic partnership is reminiscent of boozy 90's rock yet also garners comparisons to contemporaries The Hold Steady, Yuck, and Surfer Blood.
A loosely linked concept album – Want, a meditation on what it means to follow our instincts – is in the works and promises listeners both a slice of Gowanus and healthy servings of Lightouts steam-pressed beats, cauterized power chords and lean bass lines. In the months leading up to the unveiling of the album, the Gowanus duo is set to release a series of singles, and with a tip of the hat to an analogue era in the not-so-distant past, each single will feature both an A-side and two B-sides allowing the band to offer up songs complemented by experimentation into deep-cut covers of Joy Division, The Stone Roses and more.
Lightouts first single, "See Clear" opens with an earnest declaration – "We want it, oh god we want it all/ But we are hitting, now we are hitting walls." The lyric succinctly captures the essence of "See Clear," an essence that singer Greg Nelson explains is, "the challenge of seeking clarity in the often cloudy and blurred distinctions between good and bad, right versus wrong, and needs and wants." Nelson's odic battle with morality and Rhodes' delicate guitar strokes serve as the quiet before the storm, as the song slowly gathers momentum towards its anthemic chorus where subdued vocals become strident and guitars take a turn for the boisterous. The haziness of the chorus is offset by the lucidity of the verses – a juxtaposition built in by design by Nelson that gives listeners an aural ebb and flow of Lightouts' message. In the end, we all want to "see lights, see stars, see clear" – download the track for free today and experience clarity courtesy of Lightouts.
He made a lot of noise in his hometown of Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey, becoming a local Hero with the release of his first mixtape, HOT 16’s. Now in Miami, the Southern sound injected Warchild’s veins and made him who he is today…Which is an artist whose triumphs are built solely on making you move with rich production and crazy/sick lyrical foreplay. Warchild is WAR spelled backwards...RAW!
His music is now getting the attention of the masses. And Warchild is going to breathe some excitement into the TV series, The Jersey Shore, as the Hit show is interested in featuring his music on its soundtrack. While everyone’s focus is all over the place with the vast amount of mixtapes being dropped daily, Warchild is the anchor to a sinking ship.
His music is quickly becoming one of the top contentious and insightful sound in Hip Hop. Warchild is dope straight up. He’s created some seriously vibrant Hip-Hop which TRULY represents the North, the SOUTH, and the Underground. And with Major television shows after his hypnotic and authentic sound, he’s also a force to be reckoned with in the forefront.
Coming from a very musically inclined background usually helps, but Warchild has put in his GRIND alongside that natural-born gift. His unique style of hip-hop has captured the attention of listeners nation-wide, even before radio airplay. The good ones usually do. Put that combination up with his keen sense of what simply sounds good,and we can't fault Warchild for making good music.
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Lambo-Yeezus, mercy.