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...says Nakamura), Gorillaz have remained as bizarre and unpredictable as ever. Their new album, G-sides, “a compilation of remixes, a couple of older songs that weren’t on the album,” according to Nakamura, betrays a flare for hip-hop that was only hinted at with Del’s slightly kitschy raps on Gorillaz. Add the fact that Gorillaz recently cut a track with D12 (“911”), and share the lead single off the Blade 2 soundtrack, “Gorillaz On My Mind” with...
...from the Windy City with a hard-rock radio blend of melodic hooks and crunching riffs. This nu-metal outfit manages to temper the simplicity of drop-d tuned chunk metal with alt-rock and cock-rock attitude. The band keeps it simple. They don’t blend hip-hop, they don’t dose tracks with techno-loops, but stick to simple meat and potatoes rock-metal power, with an occasional decrease in distortion for a few seconds of sensitivity. Catapulted by their debut single, “Halo,” the band is threatening...
...default get-up. Freechai's male customers are a bit conservative, says Ryou, but women like to go wild, taking fashion dares they wouldn't risk on a real boulevard. So she takes ideas and jacks them up a bit for cyberspace. Explains Ryou, who dons baggy hip-hop pants, a red tank top and bright yellow hair when she logs on: "People want their avatars to be flashier than they are in real life. When we did swimwear, there were guys who would go around in trench coats with just their bathing suit on underneath...
...collectors imaginable: Tokyo's jaded, trend-setting twentysomethings. To reach that desirable market, Nike Japan featured Lau in a series of Presto shoe advertisements two years ago and Levi Strauss Japan quickly jumped on the bandwagon, using Lau to plug its Engineered Jeans line. Moreover, his appeal to the hip-hop generation seems global. His limited-edition plastic dolls have made it into toy collector shops in New York City and London. Young, cutting-edge international designers, DJs and artists beg to visit his apartment-studio when they're in town. Heck, even kids on the street...
...more mainstream funk. But given turntablism’s radical, fragmentary nature—weaving pieces out of pieces of other pieces—this is a pointless goal anyway. Built From Scratch’s many high points ensure that it’s banging, if not revolutionary, hip-hop...