London vinyl-only label Omertà Inc. was “born out of a love of hip hop, mixtape culture and years of collecting vinyl,” as it said when first releases were announced in January. Right out of the gate, Omertà’s stated mission was to revive hip-hop on vinyl, in spite of the fact that so much of the […]
Influential hip-hop album fully reincarnated via VMP Vinyl Me, Please Vinyl Me, Please has prided itself on presenting music lovers and vinyl collectors a chance to receive a curated record that is not only essential to own, but is also either undiscovered or rediscovered. They managed to strike gold...
In Random Pulls, the Modern Vinyl staff digs blindly through their collections to reveal the ins and outs of their musical history and tastes. Want to go digging through your own collection? Submit a writeup of 100-200 words and a photo of the record’s most interesting visual aspect to news@modern-vinyl.com...
Editor’s Note 1 “We ain’t even really rappin’, we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us.” — Tupac Shakur, P3 Soul Interview | Nov. 1994 (Two weeks before the Quad Recording Studio Shooting) I. Introduction Compton, the small, notorious, Southern Californian...
On RTJ2, El-P and Killer Mike get serious about having fun Mass Appeal The union of Brooklyn rapper/producer El-P and Atlanta MC Killer Mike has been one of divine praise, so much so that it’s now become difficult to disassociate one without the other. Both of their solo offerings in 2012 were graced...
You can now stream the new Gym Class Heroes album, “The Papercut Chronicles II,” here. Currently, there is only a CD option for the record, but I’m sincerely hoping that changes, with this record being of the highest quality, at least to me. We need at least one of the papercut chronicles...
