Smother Magazine Band Spotlight
Band Spotlight
Chiodos
Perhaps no one can explain the sheer ferocity and timid quietness it is better than when vocalist Craig Owens says “we don’t want to let the kids down” when discussing the group’s intense vocals live at shows. Well they never let a single kid down with their vicious assault on the ears and grip on the jugular...
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Skinny Puppy - Mythmaker
Converge - No Heroes
The Graduate - Anhedonia
Death By Stereo - Death Alive
Comeback Kid - Broadcasting
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WinterKids - Memoirs
03.09.2007 by J-Sin
Smother Magazine Band Spotlight: The Streets
The Streets, consisting of one Brit Michael Skinner, are slowly but surely taking the hip-hop scene by storm. Without relying on pimp-talking, thug-life, or other ridiculous facets of the hip-hop community, The Streets talks about real life as a 'geezer' putting a challenge to all the
hip-hop and rap 'artists' out there to see if they too could say something meaningful instead of the usual garbage. Producing one of the most insightful and inspirational albums of this millennium is a daunting task but The Streets do it without so much as a blink of the eye.
Fusing UK Garage with two-step, reggae, spoken word, and even a bit of the Beat poetry to make a new hip-hop sound that is all The Streets but is so imaginative that the lemmings are sure to follow. But that will be what separates The Streets from everyone else--leadership.
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