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The Birth of Hip-Hop Fashion 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Biggie Smalls and April Walker. Photo courtesy of April Walker. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a new-age renaissance was being embraced across the country. Groundbreaking artistry was emer...
Bernie Worrell 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Thirty-five years ago, in 1978, Bernie Worrell released his first solo album, All the Woo in the World. At that point, he was internationally famous for his laser-like synthesizer licks in Parliament/...
Powerline 16 Aug 2013 | 02:53 am
The beginning of Mark L. Lester’s skating opus Roller Boogie always struck me as akin to a George A. Romero movie. As the sun beats down on a seemingly deserted, post-apocalyptic Venice Beach, two ro...
Rap’s favorite comedian 16 Aug 2013 | 02:38 am
Witty and funny-as-hell Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt is finally dropping his massively awaited full-length, Doris, on August 20. Stream the entire album at Odd Future’s SoundCloud.
Tree 16 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
Tree is a twenty-nine-year-old artist from Chicago’s South Side. He makes rap music, but calling him a rapper would be an understatement of wild proportions. While rapping is certainly central to his ...
Quantic & Ana Tijoux 15 Aug 2013 | 01:37 am
Quantic is back with a cover of Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” on 7-inch vinyl (and digital download). Colombia-based, British-born producer and musician Quantic takes a break from his forthcom...
Wax Poetics Presents Sunset Summer 13 Aug 2013 | 11:54 pm
Like his recent move from his hometown Miami to a just-as-sunny Los Angeles, with his new EP, Sunset Summer (Wonderful Sound 015), Induce has yet again gone 180º—a move perfectly in line with what see...
Internet Synchronicity 13 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
Photo by Conrad McGee Ryan Hemsworth is the Halifax-based musician who has quickly gone from a potent staple of the little known Green Ova producer base at the end of 2011 to a rising global phenomen...
Horse Head 13 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am
Rap music, the ever-resplendent and shimmering jewel is going through some changes. Of course, like all art, like all things human, it’s always going through changes. At times though, change seems to ...
LRL and the Dukes “Double Funk” 10 Aug 2013 | 02:11 am
On August 13, Omnivore Recordings is releasing a two-CD set, The South Side of Soul Street, compiling the entire soul output of the Minaret label, consisting of a whopping forty tracks. The label has ...
