New Writer! Rawley's Review: Homeboy Sandman- The Good Sun

Whaddup kids, now I know this blog doesn’t usually focus on rap, but here’s a little change for you. In order for this to work, you’re going to have to do one thing. Disregard any judgments you have about hip-hop while listening to Homeboy Sandman. Unlike the indie/punk/ambient/hardcore/thrash/ whateverthefuck genres that make up rock, in hip-hop we have mainstream and underground. Welcome to the underground. Homeboy Sandman is a dope MC out of Queens, and The Good Sun is his latest album. This CD is a total breath of fresh air. Homeboy Sandman has solid flow, creative lyrics, but mostly importantly, tons of style. It’s great to listen to a rapper who could care less what he’s wearing or how much money he has. All Homeboy Sandman cares about is rapping, and it shows in The Golden Sun. He raps about things other people would never consider hip-hop. “Angels with Dirty Faces” is about the homeless people he sees in NYC every day.
“Imagine you was dying nobody helped you/
Say nobody listened you might talk to yourself too/
Turning up your nose holding your nose gonna puke/
Church all in the front row fill up the whole pew/
Fronting like it’s God’s word but that yall goin do/
Some of them ain’t got shoes, guess that’s your cue”
The beats are smooth and creative (he’s even got live drums, a miracle in hip-hop nowadays), although the album doesn’t have the cleanest production. But this is the underground remember, and we don’t give a fuck how clean the vocals are. Finally, just give Homeboy Sandman a chance. You won’t be disappointed.
http://www.myspace.com/homeboysandman
http://homeboysandman.blogspot.com/
-Rawley

The Sidekicks- Sam 7"

Saturday night lock-in's are rad. But so is the Sidekicks 7incher Sam. First off I can't really remember how I got my hands on this, like most 7" but looking back I feel a friend of mine suggested it to me saying its the best of the Sidekicks stuff. He wasn't kidding. This 7" is really uplifting along with how its pretty fast paced in keeping your interest, and shows a reason why people flipped out about this like Against Me! in 2001 after Reinventing Axl Rose. Okay mabye not to that extent. But a lot of people digged this so it must be good right? Well if you can't take everyones word this album was able to put me back into place with my head back on again. Well enough with sentimental value, the lyrical value is awesome and is pretty honest and passionate which is always a plus. Like the opening song Hop on a Sea Cow and Manatee Up in the last part he say's " I can make reasons for my unreasonable sureness/ I can make predesigned phrases sound so earnest", I think is a really cool line and not just because I was able to write it down here, so eat it unseen panel of hipster judges. The Sidekicks are an Ohio based band but will be touring around the West Coast with Tigers Jaw and are currently touring around the East Coast, Hopefully hitting up D.C., But this band will remind you of Latterman (or Shorebirds a.k.a. Latterman pt.2), O Pioneers! and mabye a lil bit of Cheap Girls. But thats just me. Give them a spin and a gander, they got 2 other albums out so have fun.

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sidekicks

Sam 7": http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4aacfbfb0f6613a3260ad633f57c4b3946722372e2d48c3ef1940a51b339e393

Everyone Everywhere

So I stumbled on this band a couple of days ago, and now because of how solid this album I'm now ravenously going on music binge. Anyways these guys are really solid. Everyone Everywhere is a Indie/ "Emo" band from Philly. These guys sound a lot like straight up 90's emo bands like Promise Ring or any band that had to do with Tim Kinsella. These guys sound a lot like that along with Castevet and Grown Up's kinda deal. They have a very jammish feel to them with midwest emo elements ringing through their songs along with having some sing along parts and being fairly melodic which in my opinion is a really good mix. Their new self titled CD that came out recently has all of these present along with a nice track after track feel, where you just cant listen to that one song you like because it just flows together really well. They are also a pretty rad band to listen to when traveling around in nice weather.

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/everyoneeverywhere

Everyone Everywhere- Everyone Everywhere: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4aacfbfb0f6613a3260ad633f57c4b39ff8875d842bc39f76d217c73094ddc3b

Alot Of Weird People Standing Around- Everyone Everywhere: http://www.mediafire.com/?4aacfbfb0f6613a3260ad633f57c4b398cfdf9d998c6b7996abe4c29fc26b000

Baader Brains

Uhh yeahhh, so by the looks of things I kinda have been a lazy and busy so my bad for not updating this for a bit. But on the flip-side and the only one that really matters in this case I have been listening to Baader Brains lately, and other than being a clever knock off name of a D.C. hardcore/ reggae superstars, they are a band that rips hard while kinda being trippy and have probably more radical ideals then Bad Brains. Baader Brains is a hardcore band that are part of this fictional radical group called The Young Tigers and its kinda based off the Baader-Mienhoff/Red Army Faction shinanigans of 1970' and 1980's which used alot of radical and sometimes violent tactics. It's interesting stuff, look it up. These guys like to do concert themes about this. But back to the point the album I've been listening to by them, and really the only one I know off, The Complete Unfinished Works Of The Young Tigers, is a really tight and trippy album mixing nice hardcore punk elements, with a combo of trippy audio clips and other sorts of tunes packed in along with some dialogue. Also its a concept album around a revolutionary movement of... well the Young Tigers, which I think is really cool and entertaining. But I highly recommend taking a look and listen to these guys, so have fun with the album.

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/officialbaaderbrains

The Complete Unfinished Works Of The Young Tigers:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4aacfbfb0f6613a3260ad633f57c4b398fea5c3214acb3067ec2adf5ae0c10e8