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CT Recommends: NOK from the Future – “A+”
There's not much we know about NOK From the Future. The mysterious teenage internet rapper keeps most of his identity, including his appearance, under wraps. In NOK’s music videos, his face is sometimes covered in a fencing mask, other times in a Japanese surgical face mask. One thing stays constant, though, and that's NOK's tagline […]
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CT Reccomends: 2994 – “CTCAR”
2994 is the first band from the future. According to the group’s tumblr page, they traveled back in time from the year 2994, wanted to live in 2004, but got stuck in 2015. Now, they need our help. 2994 is composed of three rappers—Temet Nosce, Shyboy and Catullus++. Only two of the band’s three members […]
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CT Recommends: schoolboy Q – “Oxymoron”
“Hello? Hello? F--- rap, my daddy a gangsta,” a girl calls out, her voice echoing in the silence. A split-second later, she’s drowned out; a thunderous bassline crashes down, pierced by a wicked snare, while a nocturnal guitar riff lurks amid high-hats in the background. A guttural voice creeping along within it, murmuring ad-libs left […]
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CT Recommends: Bladee – ‘Gluee”
“GLUEE,” the debut mixtape from Bladee, a member of the Swedish rap/electronic music collective Gravity Boys, is a tough pill to swallow. The mixtape’s opening track, “deletee,” is a 3-minute long iced-out autotune casserole where Bladee moans, “Gucci lenses on my eyes / Bank account match my clothing size.” Much of “GLUEE” is moaning–that's the […]
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CT Recommends: “The Comeback”
Nearly a decade after leaving the air, HBO’s “The Comeback” shocked audiences with a comeback of its own when the network announced that it would be returning for a second season. The show is presented as raw footage from former sitcom star Valerie Chrish’s (Lisa Kudrow, best known for playing Phoebe on “Friends”) reality show. […]
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CT Recommends: The music of Hans Zimmer
You hear the sound of the radio, and you enjoy a certain pleasure. You become enamored with the richness, or perhaps annoyed with the repetitive beats and pop culture nonsense. I appreciate it for what it is, but rarely do I ever feel as enamored as I do when I listen to film scores - […]
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CT Recommends: The Menzingers
There aren’t many places in Baltimore where you feel safe, and The Ottobar, Maryland’s premier punk rock bar, certainly isn’t one of them. It’s located in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city, the parking lot is literally a barbed wire cage, the bathrooms are covered in graffiti and piss, and worst of all, […]
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CT RECCOMENDS – Corporate Mixtape
The words “balance, focus, control” repeat like a mantra on Donovan Hikaru and Corp’s track “Outdoor Seminar”, a tune whose sound palette of MIDI slap bass and gated snare drum is as sterile as the corporate rhetoric it samples. That’s the point. Enjoying “Corporate Mixtape” means giving yourself up to its squeaky clean, office-complex vibes. […]
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Winter’s Bone
Reading this in 2014, it’s very likely you know who Jennifer Lawrence is. Her work in various arenas has put her on the map, as has her incredibly likable public persona. Interestingly. this glorified starlet’s fame arose from a much less famous movie. “Winter’s Bone” garnered four Oscar nominations upon its release in 2010, including […]
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Short Term 12
It’s rare to find a film like “Short Term 12.” It’s a movie that is marvelously small in scope, and has no grand ambitions or self-created pretentiousness. Left in their place is a truly moving story that wears its heart on its sleeve. This story, one of messed-up people trying to help and understand each […]
