Saving the best for last, we’ve chosen our 51 favorite albums of 2013, pulled from the acclaimed and the unsung — some of the best as well as most boundary-pushing releases from rock and beyond.
The low-down on the record, the band’s genesis and the state of race in America.
Proof positive that trouble-making groups can be interracial too.
Deafheaven: Sunbather
Integrity: Suicide Black Snake
The White Mandingos: The Ghetto’s Tryna Kill Me
Noxious Foxes: Epochalypso
Scale the Summit: The Migration
Calexico: Spiritoso
Murs-fronted and Darryl Jenifer-backed rap-punk group The White Mandingos has debuted another video, and it has a lot to say — lyrically, but also visually.
The White Mandingos:The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me (Fat Beats, 6/11/13)
Super-group The White Mandingos, comprised of rapper Murs, Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer, and Ego Trip magazine founder Sacha Jenkins, is releasing its debut album, The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me, on Fat Beats in June. A concept album about a Harlem projects-dwelling rocker, it’s shaping up to be an incisive, satirical, and unique blast of dub-infused rap punk.