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                  Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing well. This week is definitely a late post and I apologize for that. But this might be good timing because this past weekend was crazy, and while I didn’t see much of it, I did have some thoughts to share.                 I’m sure you all know, but this Rolling Loud this past weekend was the first rap festival post COVID to restart the whole live sector of rap music. With the attendance at max, I assumed that there was going to be something different or special for this festival given a whole year of inactivity. Unfortunately, I didn’t see much of that, and it kind of bothers me. I’m currently a graduate of the Sociology program at UCSB and I’m trying my hardest to enter the music industry. I particularly want to enter the live sector portion of it because I find concerts and f...

               What’s up guys, hope you are all having a fantastic week. This weekend I saw Pop Smoke’s second post-humous album come out and I’ve heard mixed reviews on it. I’m currently listening to it and the more I listen, the more frustrated I become. The concept of a post-humous album is to pretty much release unreleased music from an artist who has died suddenly. Before, I feel like this was an honest attempt to have a certain artist who meant a lot to fans exit the music industry with a bang through an album dedicated to those who were a part of the journey. An example of this for me would probably be Mac Miller who had family and friends creating a final project to give to those who supported him so much. To me, the album “Circles” was a touching attempt at recreating a Mac album with effort and love. However, I have seen some examples of post-humous albums being used as a cash cow against those who aren’t alive to fight it. The hip-hop/r...

                  What’s up guys. Welcome to a new week where I talk about a project I haven’t listened to before. This week I’m going to be talking about an album that’s been out for a while, but I haven’t had a chance to delve into this particular artist. The artist is Interpol and the album will be their debut album “Turn on the Bright Lights” that came out in 2002. The reason I wanted to listen to them was due to my newfound love for the Strokes. I started getting really into alternative rock, and I remember that one song that I associated to my college years was “Rest My Chemistry”. I remember first listening to it from the speaker of my roommates, and when I asked who this was, he told me “Interpol, they’re fire.” So here I am, and I gotta say that this band is indeed fire.                 The album starts off with a great int...

  What’s up guys, welcome back into the mind of Radeo where we go into music projects and see what they got. Today’s album was a recommendation from a friend I met at a party my sister hosted at my house. While she was gaining massive popularity points, I met someone who was giving me advice on what project I should listen to if I wanted to get into the metal genre of rock. Upon asking, he advised me to listen to Metallica’s third album “Master of Puppets”. Deciding that was a good option, I sat down, popped that sucker in, and gave it a shot.                 Upon starting “Battery”, one thing that got me confused was the intro with soothing guitar instrumentals. What? I thought this was a metal rock band, where the- BOOM. The rumble from the stampede of aggressive sounds swarmed me instantly and I was loving it. The song was about how their fans are the ‘batteries’ to the group as they feed the energy at ...