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East India Youth Culture of Volume East India Youth, aka William Doyle, is the sort of a musical act that should be very easy to dislike. Google “East India Youth”, select the Images tab and just look at him. He looks like a cross…

Hollywood Undead Day of the Dead Hollywood Undead are unintentionally hilarious. Their current line-up features luminaries such as J-Dog, Da Kurlzz, Funny Man, JOHNNY 3 TEARS, Charlie Scene and, uh, Danny. Former members include Shady…

Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly To Pimp a Butterfly closes with a conversation between its author Kendrick Lamar and the late Tupac Shakur. The latter’s dialogue is taken from a November 1994 interview conducted with music…

Marina & The Diamonds FROOT Review ratings are a funny thing. They are of course meant to be a rough guide, something for the reader who doesn’t have time to skim past and go “okay, that’s good, I’ll get it” or “no, it’s terrible, I…

Character Select concerns moments in film, television and gaming where music had such a significant impact that it became a character in its own right. Joshua Hughes laces up his boots and dives into the squared circle to observe how…

No Monster Club People Are Weird Generally, whenever I listen to a new album there’s that bedding-in phase when I’m not really sure what’s going on. It’s all new, so it might take me five or six listens to stop referring to a song…

Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo & Youth Lupe Fiasco has had an interesting couple of years. Having released back-to-back albums to critical acclaim in the form of 2006’s Food & Liqour (which is made more impressive by the fact that…