Hive Five: Our Daily Listicle of Musical Musings All hail the modern mixtape! Freed from the pressure and commercial considerations that come with r...
Ask Chris Manak (a.k.a. Peanut Butter Wolf ) why he decided to found the hip indie music label Stones Throw back in 1996 and he’ll tell you it was “t...
2012 has been a blockbuster year for mixtapes with major label powerhouses like Rick Ross, T.I. and Lil Wayne all dropping freebie workouts to promote...
Underground hip hop artist/lover of masks MF DOOM has only made a handful of media appearances over the years, but his followers are content nonethe...
The current indie rap scene teems with more life than ever before. Thanks to the World Wide Web’s endless supply of outlets, from your run-of-the-mil...
Hive Five: Our daily listicle of musical musings While many a rapper has hopped on President Obama's re-election bid, there are a stubborn number of...
Hive Five: Our daily listicle of musical musings Comic-Con International kicks off today in San Diego and the annual event will see a large and colo...
“It’s been a minute, since they seen a style with no gimmicks,” Joey Bada$$ opens on “Summer Knights,” the lead track from his highly anticipated debu...
"Portishead is my biggest band and I owe my career to them, but Portishead, in my eyes, can't move forward unless I do these other things." It's late ...
http://youtu.be/25myHbtrq7U The first video and second single from B. Dolan's upcoming album House of Bees Vol. 2 , titled "2Bad," finds Strange Fam...
Beginning in August, when it comes to Marvel’s Norse gods Loki and Thor… Everything Burns. A nine-part epic arc teaming writers Matt Fraction ( The ...
Usually when you see rappers with animals, it's usually dead and wrapped around said rapper's body. From minks to chinchilla, there's always some expe...
Imagine you’re an emerging NFL star coming off a breakout year and your agent approaches you with the following news: you’ve been selected for the cov...
Hiding behind his mask and various monikers, MF Doom is a recluse even on his most extroverted days. His usual tactic in releasing tracks is akin to...
Any random Joe can get onstage, grab a microphone and shriek. Just ask the owners of every karaoke bar in the country. But to get up in front of a cro...
We've always thought of rappers as cool cats -- stone cold hustlers sleeping on Cristal soaked mattresses full of money or slinging drugs in Bed Stuy....
On "SNL" the other night, cast member Jay Pharoah complained that there aren't enough Thanksgiving-appropriate hip-hop tracks. We beg to differ. For...
By Paul Cantor The fourth quarter of 2010 is upon us and over the next few months, some of hip-hop’s most acclaimed acts will be dropping albums. Th...
By Kathy Iandoli This week, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith's 9 year old daughter, Willow, unleashed her debut single, " Whip My Hair " onto the I...
So we here in the Newsroom have been fans of Danger Mouse for a while, even back to his days doing bedroom beats under the name Pelican City. It's o...
