I’ll admit it. I haven’t been as diligent in making sure you have some important reading to go with your scheduled regiment of a-Tunes news. Our Required Reading features were meant to alleviate that by bringing you some great contextual reads (and views) from other fine sources. So let’s just pick back up with things with this […]
Read More Required Reading: Danny Chung Chops It Up with Legendary Producer ChopsYea, this “mid-week” review is a day late, so sue us. Actually no, don’t sue us. We’re broke. BUT I promise you it’s worth the wait. We have an epic comeback from the OG’s of the scene, and a few change-of-pace-songs to give some of your favorite artists a little more variety in their repertoire. Chops […]
Read More The Mid-Week Music Video Mini-Reviews Youtube Round-Up – 9/26/13What? Our headline is a lofty claim, but believe us, it’s not unsubstantiated. Chops has spent the past couple years working with a whole slew of artists that we cover – making this essentially a collection of the best of the best of folks that have graced the pages of this blog. Just take one […]
Read More Chops’ ‘Strength in Numbers’ Is our Most Anticipated Project of the YearAllow me to be perfectly honest for one moment. If the above image doesn’t get you hyped up, there’s a very good chance you are perusing the wrong ethnic focused music blog. Two words: Mountain Brothers. The photo above makes perfect sense considering we have new music coming from the recently reunited trio along the […]
Read More Snapshot: The Mountain Brothers ReunitedJeff Yoo returns for another guest post, here on a-Tunes. Here, he talks about Hip-Hop in the context of Asian-Americana. I’ve been a huge hip hop fan for years so it’s a great honor and privilege that I get to do a hip hop music review for http://www.a-tunes.net — Shout outs to Mr. Gifted Thought […]
Read More Two Cents: Inspire’s Jeff Yoo Talks Asian-American Hip-Hoprecording new mountain brothers song this friday. video saturday & sunday. — CHOPS Onthetrack (@CHOPSmusic) May 28, 2012 OK, the above image is obviously an old picture, but if what Chops tweeted earlier today is true… we may finally be able to see an updated version. If you follow this site and don’t know about […]
Read More The Mountain Brothers to Reunite?This isnt the first time we’ve looked back through the years and shared a little Mountain Brothers with you. But we thought it’d be especially appropriate to share this skit track titled “Love Poetry” from their debut album 12 years ago, in 1999. It’s completely tongue in cheek and borderline stupid… but borderline awesome as […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Mountain Brothers – “Love Poetry” [Free DL]In lieu of the historical success by the Far East Movement with their single “Like a G6” and recently released album, Complex has put together a little feature article on who they consider 8 Pioneers in Asian-American Hip-Hop. In no way is this to be considered a definitive list, but it’s a great read on […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Complex Mag Features “8 Pioneers In Asian-American Hip-Hop”Jin, arguably the most well-known Asian-American MC, decided to drop a track in tribute of all the Asian MC’s he respects that are doing their thing right now. This song is in response to a list that was published by a blogger on their top 10 Greatest Asian MC’s list, where Jin made the cut […]
Read More Jin Drops Tribute Song to Asian MC’s – ‘The A-List’Welcome to another edition of Weekly Thursday Freebie! Back in 2004 the hip-hop group Organic Thoughts released the album The Purest Form and helped become one of the first Asian rap groups to get major distribution (I picked up my copy from the local Best Buy). The group has gone through some member changes and […]
Read More WTF: Organic Thoughts – The Purest Form
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