Sean Daley has always embraced darkness in his music, lacing his lyrics with emotional rawness, unvarnished truths and a wicked sense of humor. Better known as Slug, the MC half of long-running ...

Sunday night at Terminal 5 sees indie rap icons Atmosphere return to New York City for the first time since the release show for their new album Southsiders earlier this year. While recent years have ...

They named their debut Overcast! for a reason. Sean Daley AKA 1/2 of Atmosphere AKA Slug has made looking inward and digging into life’s gray areas an MC artform. And while “Sunshine”may be one of ...

The Minneapolis-based hip-hop duo Atmosphere capped off their fall tour with a Twin Cities double-header — one night at First Avenue and one night at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul over Thanksgiving ...

Back in 2001, when Atmosphere’s album Lucy Ford was released, the group members were at the vanguard of a new wave of underground white rappers. Their lyrics were intensely personal, and they never ...

Mike Palm Friday, Jan. 24, 2025 10:22 a.m. | Friday, Jan. 24, 2025 10:22 a.m. It’s been more than 20 years since Atmosphere, the underground hip-hop duo out of Minneapolis, first toured with Sage ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) (John Valenzuela/Staff Photographer) Rapper Slug of Atmosphere ...

Also potentially cringe-inducing is the fact that Slug sings on Lemons more than on any previous Atmosphere record. While some moments are definitely better than others, this expanded vocal range ...

The title of Atmosphere’s new album is “You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having.” The rappers, it seems, are being sarcastic. It’s hard to think otherwise after a few spins of songs that cover ...

Atmosphere MC Sean Daley -- aka Slug -- gleefully tore himself to pieces onstage Wednesday at the Troubadour, delivering a physically charged and irrepressible hip-hop equivalent of emo punk that ...

Shuffler: Sean Daley, a.k.a. Slug, frontman for Minneapolis rap group Atmosphere. A deeply personal, sardonically funny lyricist, Slug is at the top of his game on Atmosphere's most recent disc, You ...

Deep within the mass of beats and rhymes found on the Minneapolis based label, Rhymesayers, Atmosphere’s , You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having, is already grabbing critics attention. In Slug’s ...