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 ...

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 ...

Two hundred bucks, 1,000 miles on Interstate 35 and a couch in Dallas is how this hip-hop dream got started. Sean “Slug” Daley, one-half of the Minneapolis-based duo Atmosphere, has a unique ...

“Usually if it doesn’t leak through the press circuit it does once it hits the warehouses,” Slug says. “There’s boxes sitting in warehouses. You’re telling me a single kid hasn’t snagged a copy and ...

It’s been more than 20 years since Atmosphere, the underground hip-hop duo out of Minneapolis, first toured with Sage Francis and Mr. Dibbs, and their new Imagine the Fun tour with all three acts is ...

Atmosphere returned for the 20th anniversary tour of its album, “You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having,” at the Canopy Club. Atmosphere is a hip-hop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota. It consists ...

Sean “Slug” Daley will be the first to admit it. Following a night of hard drinking, the Atmosphere emcee found himself biking over to producer Anthony “Ant” Davis’ house to work on new ...

Before picking up a microphone and putting lyrics to the beats of Anthony Davis, AKA Ant, Sean Michael Daley was a courier driver, loving every second of it. “I was delivering stuff, and I probably ...

Despite 11 years of writing, touring and recording, Atmosphere still insists on a reaction. Indifferent about social acceptance, genre inclusion or industry approval, Slug (aka Sean Daley) is ...

From college radio stations in 1996 to Epitaph and MTV in the 2000s, Atmosphere heralded the wave of introspective underground rap. The prolific duo, rapper Sean Daley (Slug) and producer Anthony ...