Words By Patrick M.

Graphics By P.

Guns N’ Roses, or what’s left of them, will release Chinese Democracy this year, an album more than 17 years in the making. There was a time, before Autotune, when GNR represented the best music had to offer. Following 1987′s Appetite For Destruction they could legitimately claim to be the biggest rock stars in the world. Perhaps enjoying the mountaintop a little too much, the band took four years to follow up with the excessive, erratic (and admittedly enjoyable) Use Your Illusion I and II. But while taking their time dawdling at the top, music passed GNR by. A week after Use Your Illusion‘s release, Nirvana came out with Nevermind and suddenly the coolest guys on the block, Axl and Slash, were out-of-touch douchebags. Read the rest of this entry »

O.K. let’s be real.

It’s no September 29th, 1998 (which ironically was 10 years ago to this day,) but let’s look at the bright side of things. Tomorrow, approximately 10 Hip-Hop albums, along with a couple of R&B records, will debut marking the biggest day of releases for the culture this year (if not ever). Read the rest of this entry »