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Issue 496

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Gaslight Anthem


Bands from America are, these days, less prone to emerging in a ray of hype. The success of acts like the National, the Hold Steady, and the Black Keys has been more about the acts themselves striving to advance their own musical style than it has been for believing the hyperbole - while those three acts have certainly had strong word-of-mouth, their success has been far from an overnight sensation.


  Gift Of Gab
Escape 2 Mars

Other Tongues


In the 90s, Blackalicious was at the forefront of underground hip-hop thanks to the infectious beats of Chief Xcel and the unbelievable rhyming style of Gift Of Gab that connected with many hip-hop fans at an intellectual level. The unforgettable Alphabet Aerobics still remain today as one of the most amazing displays of rhyming, and catapulted Gift Of Gab into one of the premier hip-hop MCs.
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