This is relatively old news, but I completely missed the boat on it when it first came out, and it’s dope, so I’m posting it…
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Electric Wire Hustle is an “electronic/organic trio” from New Zealand who’ve been getting mad love from across the ol’ blogosphere. I honestly don’t know a…
Michael Jackson’s passing has inspired countless tributes from, it seems, every corner of the pop culture landscape. A testament to both his transcendent artistic influence…
Sites all over the internet have been going crazy for this new mixtape. Okay, definitely not new, since it came out back in Feb of…
In the early 1970s, nine American servicemen stationed in Germany formed a soul band. They called themselves 100% Pure Poison (it was the seventies, after…
Our boy J Dilla has some major posthumous issues. He was never a very rich man (he actually ended up crazily in debt since he…
It’s been a minute since we’ve posted any music on 4080, so I figured it was time to upload some auditory dopeness. And Fan-Tas-Tic Vol. 1…
Welcome to the first post in a series intended to explore hip-hop’s musical roots. Although not an expert musicologist by any means, my aim with…
Atmosphere, your girl’s favourite hip-hop group, released their latest ablum, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, last week. I’ve had mixed…
I managed to catch Mos Def playing in Ann Arbor the other night. His show was on MLK Day and was dedicated to the memory…