If you like to read your music videos, here’s a video that makes sense of the “Be Stupid” Diesel ads. The clip features “Honeytrap” from We Have Band.

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There have been some controversial (i.e. laughable) labels slapped onto new albums and bands. Most of these labels are hyphenated, nonsensical descriptions used to make it easy to draw comparisons. Bear in Heaven is one of those bands that cannot be contained in any single genre. Listening through the album you can pick up psychedelic tinges and even some glimmers of prog. The album very well could have been dismissed as an experimental/prog band—but instead, they neatly wrapped up each textural song into a three to four minute package and present us with an accessible album. So what am I to classify Bear in Heaven as? I think for now, I’ll just put them in my ‘bands I should’ve known about a long time ago’ file.

“Beast in Peace” opens the album with a pulsating beat and hazy vocals. The steady, undulating feel of the song is interrupted once near the end and breaks into what feels like a wild, tribal chant. Another standout, “Ultimate Satisfaction” starts out steady and builds up to a monumental refrain.

While most songs are massive, “Fake Out” and “Drug A Wheel” take a more modest approach to this sound.
There is a lot to experience on Beast Rest Forth Mouth. The best way I’ve found to do this is to chuck the iPod ear buds and turn up the speakers. I really couldn’t say enough good things about this album, it stands out amongst all of the albums being released in the indie world and I have not been this excited over discovering a new artist in a long time.

What do you know about the Athletic Mic League? Get familiar. Favorite part of the video: when 14KT pushes the camera with the siney bass.

Athletic Mic League’s “RU???” video freshly liberated from the Ahptic vaults. This 2004 Unreleased video, is from AML’s “Jungle Gym Jungle album. The six emcees of Athletic Mic League came together while still attending high school in Ann Arbor, MI. Known then as the Anonymous Clique: Buff1, 14KT, Grand Champ, Texture, Tres Styles, and Vital joined forces with DJ Haircut aka Mayer Hawthorne and after two years of love and support from the local hip-hop community they made it official and AML was born..

Kapow.
Athletic Mic League – “Teamplayer 4 (14KT Foolin ARound Rmx)

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