Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a 25-year-old hip-hop scholar of the new and true school. She is the founder of BrokenBeautiful Press.
Reviews
Wednesday, July 16 2008
Invincible: Shapeshifters
Every A&R's worst nightmare is a sustainable media movement's dream come true.
Tuesday, May 13 2008
Marcia Ball: Peace, Love and BBQ
The gift of the South is that it interrupts any heroic tale the United States tries to tell about itself, even when we have to trace the racism for ourselves from the underside of the electric guitar or the failed exorcism of bongos.
Monday, May 5 2008
Guru: Best of Guru's Jazzmatazz
Guru gives us one idea at a time, like he's walking next to Big Bird, and Snuffleupagus is on next. Hip-hop for beginners.
Wednesday, April 30 2008
Santogold: Santogold
This is the soda shack where punk and electronica meet the rhythm of a diasporic dub addiction.
Thursday, April 24 2008
Lettuce: Rage!
Thank God for small miracles and the holy number 7! With Rage! the seven artists in Lettuce raise the dead and uplift the living.
