Calvin Johnson Spins in Seattle

The Halo Bender makes happening beats for narcotic crowd at Chop Suey.
Calvin Johnson / Photo by Alex Crick

He’s a revered college-rock icon as a musician, producer, DJ and label head. His deadpan monotone voice and blues-mired guitar elicits a nostalgic assault upon the listener. He’s unleashed the lo-fi in Beat Happening, brought the funk in Dub Narcotic Sound System and spun softly swirling melodies in the Halo Benders.

New Common Market MP3 from 'Tobacco Road'

Exclusive! Get a four-plus minute earful of the Seattle hip-hop duo's new title track.
Common Market at Bumbershoot '06

Lyric-spitter RA Scion and his producing partner-in-crime Sabzi (also of Blue Scholars repute) first fueled their way out of Seattle's rain-soaked streets with the Black Patch War EP earlier this year, but if the title track to Tobacco Road, out Sept.

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