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30 BEST LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2017
Pile, Hayley Thompson-King, Cousin Stizz, and Exit Order top the list in a year of incredible albums for Boston.
15 BEST LOCAL EPS OF 2017
There was no shortage of musical talent in 2017, and bite-sized EPs from Rams, Littlefoot, Haasan Barclay, Lilith, and more prove so.
THROWBACK: REVISITING ROCK AGAINST RACISM
Mass Hip-Hop Archive breaks critical positive gem out the vault
HAASAN BARCLAY: THE MAGICAL MYSTERY CONTOUR
Boston-bred artist Haasan Barclay brings his R&B hip-hop onto a psychedelic journey with his new mixtape, 800 Fantasy Lane.
ONE LOVE: AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO LISTENS TO JUST ONE KIND OF MUSIC?
Am I the only person who exclusively appreciates just one kind of music?
LESSON PLAN: HOW CAMBRIDGE MC MILLYZ SKIPPED HARVARD AND MIT TO GO WORLDWIDE
“It’s two different worlds,” Millyz says about the gap between the colleges and blocks that he grew up on. “They never really mixed when I was growing up. You would see college students in Central Square, but in the actual neighborhoods you didn’t see that. It’s just different. When I was growing up, these were all zombies walking. These were million-dollar drug blocks.”
NICK SHEA: OLD-SCHOOL HIP-HOP MEETS NEW-SCHOOL OUTLOOKS
Meet the Boston rapper who’s repping old-school hip-hop in the vein of A Tribe Called Quest at just 20 years old.
JUSTIN CLANCY AS HIMSELF
The North Shore artist confesses about sneaking out to break in
FOTOBOM: GORILLAZ @ BLUE HILLS BANK PAVILION, 7/12
In a rare Boston appearance–their first in seven years–the genre-defying Gorillaz brought their full-band roadshow to Boston with a handful of digital guests.