For those in the Toronto area, Hand’Solo Records, Urbnet Records and Backburner bring you another $5 Rap Show at Rancho Relaxo on Friday, March 4, 2011…
February 28th, 2011
$5 Rap Show: Fresh Kils, Ambition & Uncle Fes, Mister E, and Rhino
February 25th, 2011
VIDEO: Hidden Fortress - All That Is
Check out the new video/promo for the Hidden Fortress album All That Is… Let’s just say psychedelia is their strong suit.
February 14th, 2011
REVIEW: Hidden Fortress - All That Is
Many thanks to Herohill for their fine review of the Hidden Fortress album All That Is… According to The Hill, “if you like your hip hop dark and dense, with thumping beats and lyrics that you can not only sing along with, but that can give you something to think about, I’d suggest you get with these guys.”
Read the rest of the review here: http://www.herohill.com/2011/02/quick-hitters-hidden-fortress.htm
February 1st, 2011
INTERVIEW: Hidden Fortress on Shameless (CITR) in Vancouver
On January 26, 2011, Hidden Fortress frontman nofutureface discussed music and movies with Shameless host Jonathan Brown. The podcast starts out with some garbage from the previous show, but once Shameless begins it’s a great collection of underground hip hop with a children’s story and Hidden Fortress interview thrown in for good measure. Hopefully we’ll hear more Hand’Solo music on this program in the future. In the meantime, check the podcase here:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Citr–Shameless/~3/fCPoGXCkPqI/20110126-183000-to-20110126-200000.mp3
February 1st, 2011
REVIEWS: Bassments of Badmen 2 & Hidden Fortress
Big shout out to Z. at Hipster, Please! for showing Hand’Solo some love with their recent reviews for Bassments of Badmen 2 and Hidden Fortress’s All That Is. Not to spoil the anticipation, but Z. loved them, he really loved them!
Of Bassments of Badmen 2 he writes, “the beauty of the compilation is that everyone’s bound to find something that appeals to their own unique ear.”
And he sums up All That Is with: “If you like the unrelenting energy of horrorcore but can’t abide the laughable imagery, or enjoy the verbose linguistics of nerdcore but crave a more holistic, almost spiritual slant, then this is not one to be missed.”
Check the rest of the reviews, along with a third review for Selfhelp’s Broken Shadows, at: http://www.hipsterplease.com/2011/01/provinces-not-states.html