Eyedea & Abilities
By The Throat

There are two striking things about Eyedea And The Abilities new album. The first is the CD?s front cover, which is simply a window and a bench, in w...

Battle MC champion Eyedea seems to have lost the plot. He has morphed from angry b-boy (think early Eminem) into a tortured soul of an Emo-Hop artiste...

In a nutshell... Raw. Evocative. Self-loathing. Slapdash. Eclectic.What's it all aboutA fresh approach to a familiar sound in this rather brief displ...

Eyedea & Abilities’ harshest critics really are themselves. In interviews what felt like five minutes after its release, they effectively di...

The team of Eyedea (Mike Larsen) and Abilities (Gregory Keltgen) have successfully paired to release some of the more intriguing hip-hop of the past d...

When Eyedea won HBO’s Blaze Battle in 2000 he seemed poised to launch a career of glitzy video shoots replete with booty, braggadocio, and bling...

In hip hop, five years is a long, long stretch. Take five years off, and you?d better come back hard. Mostly because the stakes are so high, By the Th...

Five years ago, Minnesota-based MC and DJ duo Eyedea & Abilities showed off the full potential of their equally prodigious battle skills on E&A. Lifti...

Heavy guitars, frenetic scratching, and some God-awful singing pervade Eyedea and Abilities’ By the Throat, the Minnesota duo’s third LP and first in ...

Independent and alternative hip-hop or rap has managed to gain a respectable following over the last decade and with the aid of new, contemporary arti...