| Being You Is Great: A New Album from Quelle Chris | January 6, 2017 |
Quelle Chris announces his new album and premieres the video for "Calm Before."
| “[Drinking] Defines Me”: An Interview with MMG’s Red Pill | August 15, 2016 |
Max Bell interviews the Detroit rapper about his new album, Instinctive Drowning, and the depression and drinking that fueled it.
Thomas Johnson talks with Lando Chill about his new album, his relationship with Mello Music Group, and trying to avoid commercial temptations while making music.
Introducing the new Arizona artist in the vein of Chance and early Cudi.
| American Splendor: An Interview with MMG’s Red Pill | April 22, 2015 |
The Michigan rapper talks Louie, Juggalo's, working at a machine shop, and more.
Jordan Pedersen doesn’t want to be famous; he just wants to be well-off. What do you call it when you stop reaching for the stars and start reaching for a decent-sized check and a cute girlfriend? Settling? Growing up? Rap is so often the music of aspirations, of getting out and getting rich. But like […]
| Blu’s New Clarity | March 14, 2014 |
Tosten Burks has a wallet as big as NBC’s Chris Wallace. No point recounting the overshroomed self-destruction that drowned the past several years of Blu’s post-Warner career in lo-fi isolationism. The past is the past and if you hated him for it, you’re probably justified, but you also missed out on some of his best music. […]
| Open Mike Eagle Drops the “Qualifiers” Video, Signs with Mello Music Group for “Dark Comedy” | February 26, 2014 |
Max Bell believes the rules came from Slick Rick. Hellfyre Club stalwart and rap game P.T. Anderson Open Mike Eagle has inked a three album deal with indie rap label Mello Music Group for 2014 and 2015. The first of the triad will be Mike’s next album, Dark Comedy, which is slated for release this summer. […]
| Trading Ghost Stories: Quelle Chris at the Finish Line | November 14, 2013 |
Max Bell Shynes on. Detroit-bred Quelle Chris has been making music for a long time. He has Bandcamp tracks – rap, rock, and otherwise – from nearly a decade ago. He worked with Roc Marciano and Danny Brown (see Shotgun & Sleek Rifle) before you knew they were going to be two of your favorite […]
| L’ Orange & Stik Figa Paint The Block | September 16, 2013 |
Sometimes you forget that it can be simple. It’s even easier to forget that simplicity is often the hardest thing to achieve. “Monochrome” is one of those songs that sounds deceptively easy. As though all L’ Orange and Stik Figa had to do was wake up, slice a soul sample to pieces and spit some […]
