The CMJ Top 40 record, mixing hiphop, spoken word poetry, and indie rock.

14 MP3 Songs
HIP HOP/RAP: Alternative Hip Hop, SPOKEN WORD: Poetry



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*** #38 on CMJ (College Music Journal) hiphop charts!


Just some of the press "Underground" has received:

The albumâs radio success may owe something to the catchiness of tracks like âUnderground,â with a poignant chorus that backs up Reyesâ spoken meditations on justice, and âUniversal Thoughts,â a jazz-inflected slow-burner in the vein of the groove-oriented, live- instrumentation hip-hop of Philadelphiaâs the Roots.

Metroland - Albany, NY


You know you're in for a good ride when a band namechecks influences like the Last Poets, Public Enemy and Rage Against the Machine and follows them with Emma Goldman, Malcolm X and Steve Biko. Broadcast Live is a Hip Hop collective out of Albany with a social agenda every bit as impassioned and revolutionary as their musical imperative. Dance and think.

Citybeat - Cincinnati, OH


"The activist mission thatâs at the heart of Broadcast Live becomes immediately apparent on both "Underground" and during their honest, energetic live shows..."

Schenectady Daily Gazette - Schenectady, NY


Stylistically, the album meanders from stoned rhymes and lazy beats to Casio-and-sax-laden 808 grooves, incorporating the titular anger of Rage Against the Machine, the coffehouse funk of Ani DiFranco, and the by-any-means-necessary political bent of The Coup. The title track envisions what it might sound like if Wyclef Jean covered Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush"; "Universal Thoughts" fountains positivity over a laid-back R&B groove; "Slow Songs" pairs reflective free-verse with a washed-out Modest Mouse-like chorus.

-Metroland - Albany, NY