Atlanta hip hop authorities, Clan Destined, recently dropped the music video for “Scream” featuring Stacy Epps from their second LP, Self Titled.   The video captures the immanent rawness and intensity of the track, something anyone who’s attended a Clan D set recently can vouch for.  There’s even a surprise ending with an homage to a certain movie scene, but we won’t spoil it for you.

Check out “Scream” featuring Stacy Epps below with the listing for Clan Destined’s next scheduled show.

AKIL (JURASSIC 5), NIGHT SUN, SHAHEED AND DJ SUPREME, 
CLAN DESTINED, GUN PARTY, DJ APPLE JUICE, DJ STEVE DENIERO
9pm –  Saturday February 18th
529 – 529 Flat Shoals Ave. Atlanta GA 30316
$7 at the door
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Brooklyn’s Yvette resurfaced recently with a brand new song appropriately titled “Cold Sweat.”  The duo’s effects-laden style shines though in a droning track that consists of thundering drums and screeching guitars mutated into some sort of auditory chimera, and evokes booming feelings ranging from anxiousness to paranoia.  This looks to be a promising year for the Brooklyn twosome if they continue with material like this.  The single officially drops on February 14th.

You can listen to “Cold Sweat” below.

Talented Atlanta producer Drew Briggs aka Divine Interface, recently got together with fellow producer Rekchampa to film a candid interview discussing a variety of topics.  Briggs shares his feelings about his growing genre, his influences, and even gives insight into how he creates his surreal, spaced-out sounding beats.  2011 showed the debut of Divine Interface, and 2012 looks to be the beginning of his takeover.  Our ears are ready, to say the least.

Check out the video below along with Divine Interface’s “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.”

The EARN is the sophomore effort by Maryland native Michael Willingham Jr. better known as yU.  It’s no secret that for a lot of artists, their second album may be the toughest.  It’s that make or break release that shows whether or not an artist is consistent in the quality of their works, and at the same it is imperative that there is a generous dose of experimentation to prove that they aren’t a mere one-trick pony.  With the EARN, yU shatters these intrinsic doubts.  A master of storytelling, yU rides serene beats while cleverly painting pictures with his razor-sharp tongue.  Each word and each rhyme is artfully constructed creating a fluid album that carries you along a personal journey, giving us a glance at Willingham as both an artist and a person.  While it’s far too early to tell if this is yU’s magnum opus, this release leaves us curiously (and eagerly) wondering how he’s gonna top this one.

The A3C vet is fantastic live as well, check out his next scheduled date with the EARN below.

BOOG BROWN (birthday/pajama party),
yU, DILLON, ANTHONY ACCURATE, DJ AMDEX
9pm – Thursday February 9th
529 – 529 Flat Shoals Ave. Atlanta GA 30316
FREE Admission

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A plethora of new releases dropped recently from Shigeto, Yamin Semali, All The Saints, Yvette, and a double LP from heRobust.  More details on last weeks releases below:

heRobust – Late Night/Morning After LP’s

Atlanta’s Hayden Kramer has been catching the ear of beat junkies for a while with his material under the heRobust alias.  His debut album,  2011′s Albumin, grabbed our attention early and we haven’t been able to look away since.  His sophomore offering is a breathtaking double LP which shows just how far a musician of this caliber can grow in a short year’s time.  It’s still got that signature heRobust sound (the amazing synths, tasty bass, and overarching genius sound design), but Kramer’s development is all too clear as he incorporates new mind boggling tricks to craft a release that will forever cement his place in the genre.

All The Saints – Intro To Fractions

Local rockers, All The Saints, hone their finely tuned rock sound with this second release.  Recorded at various studios all around the city, the album has a (more developed) All The Saints sound, while ensnaring a bit of the nomadic spirit that went into it’s creation.  A thoroughly enjoyable listen from start to finish.

Yamin Semali – What I’m Living For

While the name (Yamin Semali) may be fairly new to the tongue, the person is not.  Yamin has been making noise under the moniker AmDex for a while now as the left brain for Atlanta’s Clan Destined.  Yamin’s first proper release shows that he’s a force to be reckoned with as a solo artist as well.  It builds on his previous work and is a short- but-sweet helping of the dope beats and hip hop you already associate with the man.

Shigeto – Lineage

Zack Saginaw, aka Detroit’s Shigeto, has been a staple of electronic and beat scenes for a while now.  His highly rhythmic spaced-out beats made him a household name amongst audiophiles, and his latest album doesn’t disappoint.  An amalgamation of various types of beats, sounds, melodies, and moods; Lineage takes the listener on a journey and makes you want to listen to it all over again and soon as the last note falls.

Last week, Charlotte rockers and vagabonds, Paint Fumes, released a new music video into the wild.  “Ghost Highway,” the video for song of the same name, displays archived motorcycle footage juxtaposed perfectly against Paint Fumes haunting track.  The whole presentation feels dirty, grimy, and singed; it captures Paint Fumes’ psych/garage rock aesthetic and evokes that devil-may-care feeling mandatory to anyone flirting with the punk rock genre.  Paint Fumes is taking their traveling circus on the road and playing The Basement in East Atlanta, tonight.

You can take a look at “Ghost Highway” below with tonight’s show listing.

KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES,
JACUZZI BOYS, PAINT FUMES
9pm – Tuesday January 31st
The Basement – 1245 Glenwood Ave. Atlanta GA 30316

$13 in advance or $15 at the door

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A mass of new albums dropped on Tuesday from Lee Harvey Oswald, Homeboy Sandman, Time Wharp, and Gonjasufi.  More details on this week’s releases below:

Gonjasufi – MU .ZZ. LE

San Diego native Gonjasufi brings another delicious helping of his unique brand of sound.  Fans will be delighted to hear that G’s latest album is classic Gonjasufi complete with yoga-inspired crooning and the spaced out lo-fi hip hop synonymous with the artist.

Homeboy Sandman - Subject: Matter EP

Homeboy Sandman returns on his latest EP delivering more of the Queens artist we’ve come to know and love these past few years.  His latest offering gives us fantastically fluid swing beats coupled with Homeboy’s undeniably sharp lyrical stylings.

Lee Harvey Oswald – Garbage Opera

The mad scientists Conspiracy and Spytek manifested a breathtaking new mix that though seemingly amorphous in shape (as it constantly evolves and changes), still oozes with the dark hip hop sounds you associate with Lee Harvey Oswald.  The painstaking amount of work that went into this album shines though with every second.

Time Wharp – BLK EP

Atlanta’s Patrick Loggins continues to crank out amazing, and frankly, mathematically frustrating tracks under his Time Wharp alias.  His newly released BLK EP show’s a little different side than it’s brother-of-another-color GRN EP which Loggins released late last year.  It’s two scoops jazz and one scoop hip hop, this time around (with a healthy dose of experimental goodness on top).  All the same it’s still got that unmistakable Time Wharp sheen and is a treat on the ears.

You all should really watch this:

Now that we have have your attention, we’ll divulge on what exactly that awesomeness was you just witnessed.  That friends, was Mophono aka DJ Centipede (real name Benji Illgen).  The San Francisco native has been a major player in the electronic and beat scenes for a while now.  He’s a member of Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder Collective (Mophono’s Cut Form Crush was originally a live session recorded with the man himself), founder of CB Records, and runs his own weekly “Change the Beat” event in his hometown.  Mophono is a sample digger of the best kind, finding rare samples and forging them into head bobbing break beats, and even neck injuring bangers.  His sound and his shows dictate that you feel his music at your very core. .

You can check out “Smile” by Mophono below.

Two weeks ago, curious Atlantans made the pilgrimage to East Atlanta on a dreary Tuesday night.  The occasion was a special one.  All huddled together, the masses packed inside 529 to escape the rain and witness the birth of Nung River.  An abrupt complication in the scheduled headliner’s tour set the scene for an impromptu new project consisting of Cloudeater members Chris Hunt and Sam Dew, and was a mystery to all.  A bare bones set-up of two members, a drum kit, a microphone, and a Kaoss Pad 3 proved to belie the wall of sound created by the formidable twosome.  With influences ranging from jazz, hip hop, and world music, to industrial and spoken word poetry (to name but a few) Nung River brought their highly-textured and rhythmic sound into existence.

You can watch captured footage of Nung River’s inaugural performance below with the show listing for their next scheduled appearance.

ISNESS, HEROBUST vs. P VILLA, NUNG RIVER, INNER GATE
9pm – Friday February 17th
529 – 529 Flat Shoals Ave. Atlanta GA 30316
$8 at the door
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Earlier this month, local tenor sax slayer and musician extraordinaire, Kebbi Williams, celebrated his birthday in an only appropriate fashion with a packed out show at the 5-Spot playing amongst friends and fellow musicians alike.  The video below shows Kebbi doing what he does best, masterfully wielding his sax with an energy and a profound presence signature to his live performances.

Check out Kebbi Williams performing “Saxophone Kebbi” at his birthday show below.