Broke Beats: Tinashe –‘Amethyst’
Kentucky’s Tinashe is only 22 years old, but the prolific songstress has been in showbiz since she was three years old, finally reaching her deserved acclaim in 2012 after dropping a pair of mixtapes...
View ArticleBroke Beats: Mayalino –‘Mayalino EP’
Houston’s Mayalino is different. He’s a rare coke rapper that can flash his drug money and weight on wax and not sound tired. He works well within the milieu of a drug-running industry fatcat all the...
View ArticleBroke Beats: Kevin Lavitt –‘Planets EP’
Our world is too busy. There’s too much noise and far too many words, which is why it helps to unwind by visiting other planets, such as Kevin Lavitt’s solar system of reposed keyboards and samples....
View ArticleBroke Beats: Raz Simone –‘Baby Jesus’
Seattle headlines Broke Beats for the second week in a row, but this time it’s an emcee we find gazing skyward. The emcee in question is Raz Simone. But unlike Lavitt, Simone, who recently released the...
View ArticleWhich Playoff Team Should Boston Hockey Fans Root For?
COMMENTARY The dream is dead for 2015. Your Boston Bruins floundered down the line, muffing a chance to clinch their destiny against the Florida Panthers and ultimately being bumped from the Stanley...
View ArticleBroke Beats: Kev Decor –‘LV BN BRK’
Kev Decor bills his new mixtape LV BN BRK as a project, which seems to be accurate. It’s mostly a collection of singles (“4$”, “BANG”, and “Cuckoo” have all been released independently) and scraps...
View ArticleBroke Beats: Jazz Cartier –‘Marauding in Paradise’
Four years ago, 21-year-old Jazz Cartier was basically the Asher Roth of New England prep school rap. The Indian Mountain alumnus blipped the blogosphere with his mixtape Losing Elizabeth, which he put...
View ArticleBroke Beats: Towkio –‘.WAV Theory’
You may recognize Chicago rapper Towkio from the cover of this week’s RedEye, but if you’re not the kind of Bostonian that routinely checks out the alt weeklies of other metropolitan cities, you...
View ArticleBroke Beats: Foster –‘King’s Highway’
New Jersey rhymer Foster hasn’t been seen since he dropped “Destiny” back in 2013. His last album, Bay Parkway, came three years ago, and the artist then known as Vibes was supposed to follow up with...
View ArticleBroke Beats: Latrell James –‘Twelve’
It’s always a pleasure to feature Boston locals in this column, especially when they release a project as ambitious as Latrell James’ Twelve. On the album, the number 12 takes on nearly Biblical...
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