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Revolutions Archives for March 2008
Cat Power, "Jukebox" (Music)
Sounds reawakened by the calm.... (read more)
South Rukkas Crew, "Mix Up" (Music)
Crisp 10-track sampler riffs on electro-pop, house, and TV jingles.... (read more)
The Mars Volta, "The Bedlam in Goliath" (Music)
The sheer range of sounds is dizzying.... (read more)
Rick Ross, "Trilla" (Music)
A swath of staccato bursts, well-crafted rhyme schemes, and slick one-liners.... (read more)
Spider Loc, "West Kept Secret: The Prequel" (Music)
Imagery that would make Papa Smurf blush.... (read more)
Chris Brown, "Exclusive" (Music)
Not a boy, not yet a man.... (read more)
J. Holiday, "Back of my Lac" (Music)
Indebted to the post–Boyz II Men nouveau-thug singing style.... (read more)
Lenny Kravitz, "It is Time for a Love Revolution" (Music)
Closely identified with the four-letter word L-O-V-E.... (read more)
Vampire Weekend, "Vampire Weekend" (Music)
Vampire Weekend has succeeded in putting the hips back in hipster.... (read more)
Styles P, "Super Gangster" (Music)
An elaborately planned heist, fully thought out with an attention to detail.... (read more)
Van Hunt, "Popular" (Music)
The joys of carnal pleasure loom large.... (read more)
Foxy Brown, "Brooklyn's Don Diva" (Music)
One rapper who seems to live what she speaks.... (read more)
Too Short, "Get Off the Stage" (Music)
17th album after perfecting his slow flow mack raps for over two decades.... (read more)
Mr. Vegas, "Hot It Up" (Music)
On fire on his fifth album.... (read more)
Drama, "Gangsta Grillz" (Music)
What made Drama’s Gangsta Grillz mixtape franchise so enrapturing in the first place was focus.... (read more)
Pitbull, "The Boatlift" (Music)
Third album from the Miami-born Cuban rapper, is a purely visceral experience.... (read more)
Cormega, "Who Am I?" (Music)
Soundtrack to a documentary about the now-veteran MC Cormega.... (read more)
Bow Wow & Omarion, "Face Off" (Music)
Face Off delivers a barely legal version of The Best of Both Worlds.... (read more)
Jordin Sparks, "Jordin Sparks" (Music)
American Idol winner Jordin Spark's first album review.... (read more)
The-Dream, "Love Hate" (Music)
On his debut, Love Hate, The-Dream’s own songs are weirder, and in many ways better, than the ones that positioned him as a Babyface for the shawty set.... (read more)
From the Blogs
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Critical Noir
At the crux of Erin Aubrey Kaplan's humorous and cute Salon.com essay, "First Lady Got Back," is the simple admission that Michelle Obama--and by ex (read more) -
The Nappy Diatribe
For once in my life I wish I was like everyone else, journalistically able to sum up my innermost feelings in such a succinct fashion - immediately af (read more) -
Speak Easy
I've been chewing on Beyoncé's "If I Were A Boy" for a good minute now. From the moment I heard the ballad, something about it rubbed me the wrong wa (read more) -
zentronix d+h
Throughout the north side of Pittsburgh, one of the city's three major Black districts, they lined up before dawn, hundreds deep in the 47-degree weat (read more)
Celeb of the Day
Soulja Boy
Government Name: DeAndre "Soulja Boy Tell 'Em" Way
Hometown: Batesville, Mississippi
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