TAG: Tortoise

Jan12

Slug’s First Cover/Phone Masturbation

Sean Daley, aka Atmosphere’s MC, aka Slug, has made a career of exposing himself. Not in a trenchcoat in front of the grammar school kinda way, but on the mic. Fittingly enough for URB’s issue full of firsts, Slug might’ve been the first rapper to make an album about a girl. And even more vulnerably, the heartbreak she caused. Those were the Lucy Ford EPs, and while Lucy may or may not be the source of the sore in the story that follows, one thing is for sure, it could only be Sean.

My First URB Cover/Phone Masturbation for a Stranger by Slug
I was in NY for press, and on the tail end of a tour. I had just recently received news that my woman friend was leaving me and moving out of …

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Aug25

Tortoise – A Lazarus Taxon (Review)

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A Lazarus Taxon

Released by Thrill Jockey


The instrumental prowess of Chicago's celebrated avant-rockers may appear to reveal itself in their unshakable organic grooves. But in reality, the group is as tight as a pair of bound magnets -- a meticulous musical machine, not just some genre-hopping hipster jam band. That makes it all the more surprising that some of the most interesting parts of this three-CD-plus-DVD box set of rarities are the ones where Tortoise cedes control and gets manipulated by the whims of an audio or video remix. A Lazarus Taxon is a set ...

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