Since Nas released his debut album Illmatic in 1994, he's been a legend with a lot to live up to. Illmatic was widely hailed as a great album when it was released, and it's still frequently named as one of the best hip-hop albums of all time.
From Outback Steakhouse commercials to onstage full-frontal nudity, Of Montreal has done it all. That’s not too much of an exaggeration when you consider how long they’ve been around -- twelve years and counting -- and how committed they are to doing wacked-out stuff year after year.
Seeing an artist in concert when she only has one album to her name is always a risk, even when she’s damn good. Why? One word: filler.
For the past decade, the standard fare of the jam band scene has come from bands trying to establish themselves as heirs to the thrones abdicated by the Grateful Dead and Phish.
It won’t take you one hundred days and one hundred nights to know that Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings is the real deal.
Myth has it that Deer Tick was conceived in the cold and drafty bedroom of singer songwriter (and Providence, R.I. resident) John Joseph McCauley III during the winter of 2004 after he made mournful, under-age love to a big’ole bottle of brandy with all the Hank Williams he could get his hands on.
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