The Quick Rise And Curious End Of Macromantics
15 years ago, Aussie hip-hop act Macromantics released her acclaimed debut album - and then vanished. So what happened?
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Back when Tkay Maidza and Sampa the Great were still in school, one of Australian hip-hop’s few notable female figures was establishing a voice in the still-burgeoning scene. With her first and only studio album
Moments in Movement, the artist known as Macromantics was blurring genres to create intricate, intelligent and thoroughly-eccentric music.
From the Chicago punk crew s 2001 debut,
The Unraveling, to their eighth album, 2017 s
Wolves, each of the band s releases have contended with a new landscape of music-industry trends, tech innovations and consumer behavior. But it s safe to say that the world Rise Against s new and ninth album,
Nowhere Generation, is dropping into is a
much different place than ever before.
The heavily distanced measures through this last year of the pandemic, for instance, have greatly changed how closely we re able to interact with one another outside of an immediate bubble. The live-music circuit of arenas and clubs the band would normally utilize to promote the record due June 4th through new label home Loma Vista Recordings is nowhere near back to normal.
Artist Profile: Sage Francis
Sage Francis for president. That’s right, it’s time to think past the current election where the faceless fights the brainless. It’s time to re-instate a bit of passion to the highest office in this country where generic, empty promises rule. What better person to look to than Sage Francis? He’s the Providence, Rhode Island emcee who isn’t afraid to let it all hang out, in the name of good, ol’ fashioned, fuck off if you don’t like it, honesty.
Everything you need to know about the greatest presidential candidate in American history is all in Sage’s music. His solo debut, “Personal Journals” will let you into his mind-state, as his slam poetry roots come out in his nearly disturbing confessions of life. Being an Anticon release, featuring production from the likes of Alias, Sixtoo, and Odd Nosdam, the unique and abstract textures should let the public know, Sage Francis is a man who seeks progress and change. For a loot at Sage’s p
Donald Trump has just made United States history as the only president to be impeached twice. According to CNBC, the resolution passed 232 to 197 (with the help of 10 Republicans) after the House voted on the article “incitement of insurrection” for Trump’s role in last week’s deadly U.S. Capitol riot. Now, the Senate must take the case to trial and decide whether to convict.
The impeachment process will differ from the first one that occurred in 2019 around the Ukraine investigation, most notably because the Senate trial will presumably occur after Trump is no longer in office.
The four-page article of impeachment approved on Wednesday (January 13) argued Trump fed his blindly loyal supporters months of false claims suggesting widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 election.