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Old School Hip-Hop

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2007

    Photos: The Beastie Boys in L.A.

    Tonight, the Beastie Boys play at the Wiltern. Click the image for photos from their sold-out show at the Greek Theater on the 19th:

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2007

    Sol-T Makes URB's Next 1000 List

    LA-based mag URB has included Orange County MC/producer Sol-T in its notorious Next 1000 feature. Sol puts a fresh, funny and raunchy spin on old-school hip-hop, both on the mic and the MPC2000. You can read the blurb (as well as the recent OC Weekly feature on him) on his MySpace page. Sol-T pla ... More >>

  • Features

    July 29, 1999

    The Ugly Reality

    Ugly Duckling learns a beautiful lesson about the universality of alcohol and skanks

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Old School Hip-Hop: Back from the Dead

    I've been a Sirius Satellite subscriber (hello alliteration) since the night before Howard Stern broadcast his first censorship-free show. But in that time, I've come to love certain aspects of the other channels and have recommended this product to everyone from friends to my parents.Sirius and XM, ... More >>

  • Music

    August 14, 2008

    Arabian Prince's Electro Legacy Gives Gangstas Something 2 Dance 2-Again

    I've been a Sirius Satellite subscriber (hello alliteration) since the night before Howard Stern broadcast his first censorship-free show. But in that time, I've come to love certain aspects of the other channels and have recommended this product to everyone from friends to my parents.Sirius and XM, ... More >>

  • Features

    April 17, 2008

    Coachella's Robot Rock: Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin and Justice's Automation for (Moving) the People

    I've been a Sirius Satellite subscriber (hello alliteration) since the night before Howard Stern broadcast his first censorship-free show. But in that time, I've come to love certain aspects of the other channels and have recommended this product to everyone from friends to my parents.Sirius and XM, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Torahlarious

    Hebrew School Dropouts

  • Music

    February 21, 2008
  • Film

    July 20, 2006

    Candid Cameras

    OnDVD: Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!

  • Music

    August 9, 2007

    Cream of Elite

    Sporting perhaps the greatest hip-hop bill ever, Rock the Bells enshrines rap's history—and foreshadows its future

  • Unknown

    August 11, 2005
  • Music

    June 28, 2007

    CD Review

    The Beastie Boys, The Mix-Up (Capitol)

  • Music

    March 8, 2007

    Music Please

    EPMD Back To Back In Business

  • Music

    August 3, 2006

    Boombaps

    KRS-One

  • Music

    November 24, 2005

    Dead Hot Crazy

    NOV. 24 DEC. 1

  • Music

    April 14, 2005

    Alone in the Dark

    Never heard of Writers Block?

  • Music

    February 17, 2005

    Live Previews

    Never heard of Writers Block?

  • Music

    January 20, 2005

    Live Previews

    Never heard of Writers Block?

  • Music

    October 28, 2004

    Live Previews

    Never heard of Writers Block?

  • Columns

    September 23, 2004

    Letters

    Never heard of Writers Block?

  • Music

    September 16, 2004

    Masta Ace

    Never heard of Writers Block?

  • Music

    September 9, 2004

    Ill Communicators

    Politics and the Beastie Boys dont mix

  • Music

    August 19, 2004

    Live Previews

    Politics and the Beastie Boys dont mix

  • Music

    May 29, 2003

    Try Everything Once

    Money Marks stupid, lurid brilliance

  • Music

    May 15, 2003

    Organic Culture

    Cal State Fullertons Sol of Hip-Hop

  • Film

    March 14, 2002

    All That Scratchings Making Me Bitch

    Scratch barely scratches the surface

  • Music

    August 9, 2001

    The Return of Q

    The techno artist has a new label, a new album and the same old subatomic attention to detail in every measure

  • Music

    May 10, 2001

    The King of Rock

    There is none higher

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009
  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    More Beastie Boys News

    Remember when I told you how the Beastie Boys 1992 classic Check Your Head was being re-released with all sorts of extra goodies? If not, click here. In continuing with this fine tradition (can something be a tradition after it happens twice? I think so), the trio's 1994 follow-up, Ill Communication ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Jimmy Fallon: Savior of Hip Hop?

      For some reason, when ?uestlove announced in November that The Roots would cease touring and become the house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, there was minor outrage. "Black Thought opening for Jimmy Fallon every night is the cultural equivalent of Miles Davis playing his horn on the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 13, 2009
  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    MCA...Getting Better

    ​MCA, one third of my favorite band of all time, Beastie Boys, posted a message on the group's mailing list announcing his status. In case you didn't know, the man born Adam Yauch was diagnosed with cancer of the parotid salivary gland. He had surgery, kicked it with the Dalai Lama and is getting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Record Review: LMNO, 'Next In Line'

    ​The Hype: For the average MC, dropping three full-length albums in one year is a feat worth celebrating. And with the release of rapper LMNO's latest album, Next In Line (digitally released today on Long Beach-based Up Above Records), we're sure he's celebrating, too.&nbs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Rock The Bells: Lauryn Hill and Snoop Dogg, A Tribe Called Quest Added To Lineup

    ​[via MTV] Why, Urb Was Right After All: When they announced that Lauryn Hill was going to be performing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in its entirety last month, then were proven wrong when the lineup was announced and there was no Fugees lead singer in sight.  Instead, only Wu-Tang ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 1, 2010
  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    "Merry Christmas, Motherfuckers!": Seven Favorite Hip-Hop Holiday Songs

    ​While it doesn't happen too much anymore these days, the hip-hop world has been known to put out a holiday album or two--and sometimes the  too-bright cheerfulness of Christmas carols pairs up extra nicely with the often humorous and/or the sometimes, uh, adult content of the lyrics.After th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    KRS-One at Detroit Bar Last Night

    Rebecca Aranda​KRS-OneMarch 17, 2011 Detroit Bar It seems fitting that KRS-One decided to perform on St. Patrick's Day. As one of hip-hop's true-to-life founding fathers, deviating from the cookie cutter and weeding out the OG's from the bustas is just his forte, so it makes sense KRS picked this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    An 'Ode to Women' From Your Best Friend's Ex--Really?

    ​For Canadian rap-rockers Your Best Friend's Ex, the definition of an ode as a lyrical verse in praise of something inspiring somehow got horribly lost in the mix. Their cheap trick of a first single, "Ode to Women," manages to peddle "I said, bitch, shut your mouth" as a chorus. Feeling poetic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    R.I.P. Jeff Porcaro: Five of the Legendary Toto Drummer's Best Songs and How They've Been Sampled, on the 19th Anniversary of his Death

    ​People say that even without Toto, Jeff Porcaro would've cemented his place in music history because of the high caliber of his drumming. It's said to have defined much of the music produced in the late '70s and '80s. Born into a musical family, he toured and/or recorded with Sonny and Cher as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees Announced

    ​Fifteen rockers are up to bat for the five available slots at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this October. The nominee list (posted after the jump, along with our Top Five picks) has garnered mixed responses from the public--with some expressing outrage over the inclusion (and ... More >>

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