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Author: Karma Oak

Protoje is shining a light on 2020’s cutting edge reggae movement

October 5, 2020Karma Oak

I just feel that Jamaican culture and music are at its peak. It's been so influential for years and decades. With the type of artists that I sign — Lila [Iké] and Sevana — they're both very driven in the… Read More

Mastodon's 'Medium Rarities' Could've Used More Substance

October 5, 2020Karma Oak

Medium Rarities is Mastodon’s first odds and ends compilation. With a career spanning two decades, it seems the band would have a lot of interesting extraneous material available for this sort of release, but it turns out there really isn’t… Read More

Is Trump's COVID-19 Diagnosis Ironic?

October 5, 2020Karma Oak

When the world learned that President Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 in the early hours of Friday morning, his supporters reacted with dismay. The reactions of his opponents, however, were more complicated. It seemed wrong to wish this plague… Read More

Michelle Shocked & more playing free outdoor Festival in East Village today

October 4, 2020Karma Oak

The East Village's Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens are hosting the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival this weekend: It’s 2020 and we are all stuck inside somewhere. We are living in the Human Zoo. This year’s festival is dedicated expressing our situation… Read More

20 New Rap and R&B Songs Out This Week25 Early 2000s Rap Albums That Hold Up Today

October 2, 2020Karma Oak

This week in hip hop, we got new albums from Westside Gunn (read our review), YG, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin, Smoke DZA, Flee Lord, Alchemist, Sa-Roc, and more, plus new singles from Megan Thee Stallion, Jorja Smith/Popcaan, Small Bills,… Read More

Touch and Go and Quarterstick join Bandcamp

October 2, 2020Karma Oak

"Due to overwhelming demand," Touch and Go Records and sublabel Quarterstick Records have both joined Bandcamp. The news comes, by no accident, on this month's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser where the digital music service waives its cut of profits on downloads and merch.… Read More

Q&A w/ Anti-Flag & director Jon Nix on new documentary ‘Beyond Barricades’18 Essential Early 2000s Melodic Punk & Hardcore Albums

October 2, 2020Karma Oak

Anti-Flag started this year off with the depressingly prophetic 20/20 Vision, and now — ten months later — after a global pandemic cancelled their tour (and everyone else's) and the US took to the streets to protest against police brutality… Read More

Arcade Fire/David Byrne, Pearl Jam, Postal Service, YYYs, etc comp out now for 24 hours only

October 2, 2020Karma Oak

As mentioned, a bunch of incredible artists have come together to contribute "never-before-heard new songs, covers, remixes, live versions, and unreleased demos" to Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2 (the sequel to the September edition,… Read More

Tolouse Low Trax's 'Jumping Dead Leafs' Is Coated in Dank Grooves

October 2, 2020Karma Oak

There’s something about deep, bass-heavy, musical thwack. It doesn’t matter how much one knows about house and all its micro-shoots, or whether they can speak to 1990s-era hip-hop producers such as Pete Rock or Easy Mo- Bee, sample-based geniuses who… Read More

Thundercat & Hannibal Buress are playing a drive-in show together

October 1, 2020Karma Oak

Comedian Hannibal Buress recently wrapped up a midwest drive-in tour with Open Mike Eagle, and he's keeping the live appearances in our new normal coming with another show announcement, this time with the great Thundercat, joining him. (They're old friends.) They're headed… Read More

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