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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008 Feature

The Best Albums of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Dec.08] :. PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2008, highlighted by the return of British trip-hop legends and some infectious American indie rock by way of the Cascade Mountains.

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008 Feature

The Best Hip-Hop of 2008

by Quentin B. Huff

[12.Dec.08] :. A return to the mic nine years in the making, a hip-hop supergroup of sorts, and Tom Waits beatboxing: this year's top-shelf hip-hop is equal parts anticipation, teamwork, and wha?!

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008

 

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The Roots, in new album, tangle with the big issues

by Dan Deluca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[1.May.08] :. The Philadelphia band the Roots has always made socially aware, stylistically varied music that’s kept it on the leading edge of left-of-center hip-hop. But the collective led by drummer Ahmir...

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Music Review

The Roots: Rising Down

by Zeth Lundy

[29.Apr.08] :. Eighth studio album from Philly's legendary hip-hop crew, a minor-key rush of synthesizer-heavy vamps and distrustful rhymes, features cameos from Mos Def, Talib Kweli and more.

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Dice Raw: Reclaiming the Dead

by Dave Heaton

[23.Oct.00] :. On the Roots’ classic LP Things Fall Apart (by far my favorite album of 1999), Black Thought had the line, “You need to buy the CD and stop rewinding this”. The MC on the...

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