Author Archives: JoeyMC

Huh.

I mean, like, hm. Hmmmm. Well ok den. Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Not related at all but why hasn’t any Seattle emcee made a song about Bobby Ayala? Not even a reference?

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Be Like: Glenn Saddler – Expectations

“I don’t want to be like her, or him, or you, or them,” ATL rapper Glenn Saddler begins on “Expectations,” a cut off his recent EP The Life and Grinds of Glenn Saddler (snag that for free here). It isn’t … Continue reading

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Tunk feat. Thaddeus – “TeaBag”

Seu browser não suporta iframes. Thadwick Tristen Trevor may have sounded like red-eyed royalty from another planet on the Helluvastate project (read the review here), but his latest release takes him somewhere that might as well be another world for … Continue reading

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Notion – 3 Songs With MTK

Seu browser não suporta iframes. For an odd number 3 holds some special kind of wholeness, a completeness in accordance with the prime number’s concise indivisibility and a feeling that there is no spare part leftover. 3 is just right. … Continue reading

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Parking Lot Posted: John Crown feat. Action Bronson – “Like This”

Last night in Tacoma I ran into John Crown at — of all places — a country concert at The Space. Before hitting the stage to perform a new acoustic remix of “The Lilly” with Jasper T (its different flavor … Continue reading

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Look So Clean But Sound So Gutter: Slow Dance – “Melter”

Way back in September, when Posted in the Parking Lot was in its infancy and still had a laughable Powerpoint-made header and too much use of the impact font, I wrote my weirdest post ever. Writers always hate reviewing their … Continue reading

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Chasing the Fame Dream: The Jacka feat. Lace Leno “I Want It All”

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Mafia music generally doesn’t find inspiration in Fleetwood Mac and Phil Collins but The Jacka, Mob Figga though he may be, isn’t your typical goon. Since breaking into the Yay Area rap game … Continue reading

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ALBUM REVIEW: State of the Artist – Altered State

Altered State by State Of The Artist >Seu browser não suporta iframes. According to Lowenfeld’s stages of artistic development, the adolescent drawer leaves the “gang stage,” one of a dawning realism but an anxious desire to conform and receive the … Continue reading

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ALBUM REVIEW: Curren$y x Alchemist – Covert Coup

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] “I’m a trill mothafucka after all,” Curren$y spits as if it had been largely forgotten on “BBS,” the opening track of his free 420 Alchemist collaboration Covert Coup. After the success of his … Continue reading

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ALBUM REVIEW: KD – G-Fluid

Seu browser não suporta iframes. The late April sun would have you believe it’s summer already, and the urge to put away the Northface and rock nothing but shorts and basketball jerseys until mid-September is great. But in the back … Continue reading

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