Video: The Last Skeptik – Pick Your Battles
Building up anticipation for his upcoming album Thanks For Trying, coming out next month with BBE Records, The Last Skeptik just dropped the latest video for "Pick Your Battles." Check it out and remember: Never trust a bear in the woods. For more info, check out our recent interview with Read more »
Interview: The Last Skeptik
As wonderful as the world that we inhabit and the people within it are, both at times can feel intensely perplexing and hard to navigate. In those moments when humanity confuses you, often there is something much easier to understand about art, specifically music, and the way that it reassuringly Read more »
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Top 5: Political Bay Area Videos (Curated by Chazz Shabazz)
The Bay Area has a history of producing highly political hip hop artists, and often the line between artist and activist is more blurry than a view over the peninsula once the Fog rolls in. From the Black Arts Movement to contemporary hip hop, engaging in dialogues of justice, society, Read more »
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News: Delicious Vinyl opens up shop in Los Angeles
Directly underneath their offices on Sunset Boulevard, indie West Coast label Delicious Vinyl have opened up shop. Stocking all the labels latest and most limited releases, as well crates full of knowingly curated records, this new spot is excellent for diggers. And for any DJs or collectors, it really doesn't Read more »
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News: European ‘Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde’ DJ Competition
European DJs and fans of the seminal hip hop album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, will be psyched to know that Delicious Vinyl have teamed up with Mixcloud to offer the chance to win the opportunity to warm up for Bizarre Ride Live (Fatlip, Slimkid3 along with Pharcyde producers J-Sw!ft & L.A. Read more »
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Mix: Delicious Vinyl & The Find Present… – DVTV Sunset Scratch Session (Part One)
In a three part series of recordings, Delicious Vinyl and The Find Magazine are excited to be shining a light onto the 'Sunset Scratch Session' DVTV (Delicious Vinyl TV) hosted at the end of October this year. Broadcasted live from the rooftop of Delicious Vinyl on Sunset Boulevard, the session Read more »
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Video: Naïad – Soul Food/ Nourriture De L’Ame (ft Akil The MC)
Still putting forth hip hop from the "heart and mind," Naïad have just dropped the video for their latest, reflective offering "Soul Food/ Nourriture De L'Ame." Connecting up souls and intellects of Paris and L.A., the French group have teamed up with West Coast emcee Akil (formerly of Jurassic 5) for Read more »
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Video: Chazz Shabazz – Nameless
San Francisco, the beautiful West Coast city full of extreme polarisations of wealth and luck, provides the perfect backdrop for Chazz Shabazz' latest video "Nameless". Bumming around Union Square and rapping from a rooftop Downtown, Chazz sports a second-hand star-spangled baseball cap and seems to at once be a victim Read more »
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Interview: Chazz Shabazz
The young Bay Area rapper Chazz Shabazz is refreshingly unassuming, and alarmingly assured. One half of the duo F.M. with C-Lew, Chazz possesses an honest and firm belief in his artistry without the flashy insincerity of so much swagged-out music these days. Rhyming at events alongside the likes of West Read more »
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Interview: Cookie Crew
The Cookie Crew speak to me so much more than most female emcees about today. Sweet female voices delivering conscious raps with attitude over up-lifting beats and beautiful melodies, shouting out Americanisms with distinctively London diction, is one delicious recipe for dopeness. Read more »
Interview: LeftO
Foolishly thinking that it was all mainstream, and that my personal selections would always be infinitely better, I never really used to listen to the radio. That was before I had my ears opened to the world of radio curated by genuine music-heads like LeftO. Read more »
Video: Delicious Vinyl Presents.. – Bizarre Ride Live Preview
A bonafide hip hop classic, the 1992 release Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde is now celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The L.A. record label that released it, Delicious Vinyl, have been paying homage to the seminal record this year through various reissues, shows, parties, and of course, the Bizarre Ride Live Read more »
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Interview: Georgia Anne Muldrow
Other-worldly in the most natural and organic way – the eccentricity and magnetic energy of Georgia Anne Muldrow is disarmingly real. A true original, Muldrow seems to be navigating on an entirely elevated plane of awareness, and, to be amongst the very few individuals Read more »
Interview: Eric Lau (‘The Mission’ Q&A)
Earlier this year London’s own Eric Lau released his latest musical offering "The Mission" – an aurally absorbing and detail drenched EP with Detroit’s notorious rapper Guilty Simpson. Lau’s heady production style and Simpson’s distinctively rough vocals perfectly compliment and balance one another. On tracks like ‘He Said, She Said’ Read more »
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Interview: Kid Styles (Masta Ace – Sittin’ On Chrome)
Even though classic hip hop music will often speak for itself, there is a lot to be said for its many accompanying elements. Music videos, press shots and album artwork all serve to solidify and intensify the messages, sounds and aesthetic of a record, and can also enhance and further Read more »
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Interview: Souls of Mischief
True music is timeless. When a musician expresses honest experiences and emotions, listeners can identify with ease. And so, genuine artistic output will often speak to several generations. Testifying this sentiment perfectly is the enduring appeal of West Coast hip hop group Souls of Mischief. Read more »
Article: Delicious Vinyl Feels Mighty Fine
Have you ever been so overwhelmingly attracted to somebody that, grabbing and groping not being enough, you feel the primal urge to bite into their beautiful, enticing flesh? Well, that same impulse can arise from hearing music with the power to send your hormones into overdrive, making you want to Read more »
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