Albums
Jerbare – Opaque
5/10 Straight out the gate, I must stand and slow clap for Jerbare. Releasing a double album in 2020 is ballsy as hell (actually a two-parter with separate release dates but I’m counting it!) A […]
Hip Hop
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Rearviewmirror: Remembering the 90s – Jay-Z – Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter
90s score: 8/10 2021 score: 6/10 It seems only appropriate that the very last major studio album released in the 1990s was a rap album. Rap exploded in popularity during the late ’80s and early […]
Albums
BLAKDENIM – Usual Suspects : Season III
4/10 Watch out! Because powerhouse musicians of BLAKDENIM are coming in hot with a brand new album. Having found initial success in Ottawa and through festival tours, the band is now hoping to bank on […]
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Bucketlist Bi-Polar Review: L. Teez – The Index To My Inner Thoughts
Back at it with another bi-polar review on another rap album, it’s me, Lee Ferguson, the rap expert. This week I’m sharing critiques with Bucketlist Music Reviews freshest face Davide Spinato as we tear into […]
Albums
Montener the Menace – I Have a Hidden Hobby
8.8/10 Quite an anomaly this Montener the Menace; little to no social media presence and an album released in 2020 that was recorded twelve years ago! You heard right. Then again, there’s a lot about […]
Albums
Scott Free – The Last Revolution
2.5/10 Eeee, okay, I see what you’re going for Scott Free: apocalyptic societal/quasi political banter, a message through music. Rage Against The Machine caught on big in the 90s pushing their political stance through a […]
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Vicious 5150 – Getaway Music
7/10 AAAND the award for first direct lyrical reference to the COVID-19 crisis heard by yours truly goes to… Port Coquitlam, BC rapper Vicious 5150 and his surprisingly infectious quarantine-inspired EP Getaway Music, released independently […]
Albums
Sister Ivy – Modern Myth
9/10 Up next on the Bucketlist docket is a supremely tasty album of funk-infused jazz by Asheville, NC trio Sister Ivy. Modern Myth, released independently on June 16th, sees lead singer and keyboardist Rachel Waterhouse […]
Albums
Bucketlist Bi-Polar Review: Lil Brick – Road to Ouroboros
On this week’s edition of Bucketlist’s “Bi-polar Reviews” segment, myself (Lee Ferguson) and fellow Bucketlist writer Talia Plante are shedding some of our own skin to take on Road to Ouroboros, the latest release from […]
Albums
C-Styles – Eventually
6.5/10 C-Styles is a Chicago rapper here with his latest release Eventually. This fourteen-track album rides the line between pop rap and more lyrical factions of hip hop, kind of like if Lupe Fiasco just […]