New Music Needed...post suggestions.

It's Adam grabbing the blog again:

It's been a while since this site has been active. I'm struggling for new music. Any suggestions? I already exhausted the lil wayne anthology (psych!), so I need some new direction.

Blue Scholars helped me out big-time during the late summer, and after checking out Little Brother live a few weeks ago, I dug them out of the vaults to freshen things up. I still think they are "the best hip hop group you've never heard of." Watching them live was insane. Best show I've seen in years. If the Roots didn't exist--and judging by their last album, they might not anymore, at least not how I know them--Little Brother would be my favorite group. I also picked up Foreign Exchange, which is Phonte from LB and Nicolay producing. It's more singing than rhyming, but Phonte is a freaking star and he can sing.

The new Kanye material is growing on me. Coldest Winter is pretty good. He's singing to his mom. Even though he can't sing, the audio effects hide his deficiencies pretty well. And at least I don't have to listen to him try to rhyme, which is sometimes unbearable.

Common has a few new songs out. One is the Afrikaa Bambataa wannabe track (can't remember the name) and then he put out the Obama tribute "Changes", which is mediocre. His new album is coming out in December, "Universal Mind Control".

Otherwise, I am struggling for some freshness. What y'all got?