BIO

Tim is a dad, Hip Hop artist, podcaster, and is best known as Sole.  In 1998 he founded Anticon Records, the first collectively owned indie Hip-Hop label in the United States. Since then, Sole has played over a thousand shows throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Japan. Around 2010, Sole pulled his masters from anticon and has reinvented himself as a new kind of insurgent artist and political entity.  His music has been featured in major media outlets such as Rolling Stone, Vice, 2DopeBoyz, Pitchfork, MTV, Huffington Post, Spin, Submedia, and countless podcast appearances . Sole has released about two dozen full length studio albums and a handful of tour cds, ep’s and mixtapes.  His most recent and prominent musical collaborations are with certified platinum hip-hop producer DJ Pain 1. Throughout his career sole has been known as one to push the limits in terms of genre and content and is widely heralded as a pioneer of avant garde & experimental rap music. Sole and his wife Yasamin released the instrumental project WHITENOISE,  and in 2013 Sole started the  “The Solecast”, a podcast featuring long form interviews with academics, artists and activists., which is currently on hiatus…  from that project he co-founded Channel Zero Network, a media co-op linking together anti-authoritarian english speaking podcasts all over the world.  Most recently Tim is the co-host of the Propaganda by the Seed podcast, a podcast designed to share practices and information for people interested in food autonomy and food forestry.  Sole is  currently in nesting/survival mode, and doing a land project with his wife and kids in Maine.