The College Music Journal (CMJ) chart showcases artists that music directors on the university level are spinning, and have inadvertently become relied on as tastemakers to predict what music fans really like. It's a haven for independant labels, and in the case that an artist from a mega-corporate record label has charted, they're granted the dignity of street cred.
Recently, two groups who represent Orlando so much that it gives Disney a run for their money, have been charting consistently on the top of the CMJ Hip-Hop chart. Congratulations to Sol.iLLaquists of Sound for As If We Existed (Anti-/Epitaph) and X:144 and SPS with their latest release M.E. (Nonsense Records). Go here for a full review of the X:144 and SPS album.
Both groups have also been on the road together for the "Quit Your Dead End Job" tour that traveled through 40 cities and wrapped up with a hometown, sold out show last night at The Social. A review of the show can be found here.
And you don't stop,
Soorya
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