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Mayer Hawthorne goes clubbing: The Tuesday new music rundown

Hip-hop has dominated the summer thus far, but this week’s batch of cool new releases is a little more varied. The hip-hop representatives are a bit more underground–which is refreshing after an endless stream of high-profile rap releases–and everything else sits more on the indie side of the musical spectrum.

The 25 greatest East Coast hip-hop albums of the 1990s

Some hip-hop fans complain about the relative lack of East Coast-based hip-hop superstars these days. The charts are dominated by rappers who hail from virtually everywhere else in the continental United States and even Canada–but over the last ten years, there have been few big names coming out of New York City