Posts Tagged
Hip Hop
Rising Appalachia Adapts Folk to a Modern Context
Boom Bap Banjo The average listener would find little in common between banjo-plucking and turntable-scratching. Leah and Chloe Smith, the principal members of folk band Rising Appalachia, who will be performing at Britt on Thur., July 9 are not the average listeners. “I think hip hop is the contemporary folk
How Cato Got His Groove Back
E-D-M not R-A-P Ever since Vanilla Ice sent word to your mother, the criticism of white rappers has most commonly been a lack of self-awareness. Louisville-based rapper Calen Schaeffer, better known as Cato, swings pretty far in the other direction. “I’m just like every other white rapper,” he says. “I’ve