Subject: Pharoahe Monch

• Get Lifted by Orgone

  Large and lascivious Los Angeles-based ensemble Orgone play the Continental Room in Fullerton Friday Jan. 11. The funk/soul/afrobeat rejuvenators will be using this gig to warm up for a four-date tour on which they'll be opening and serving as backing band for excellent rapper Pharoahe Monch. Here's a review I wrote about Orgone's debut album for Ubiquity Records, Killion Floor, and below is a six-minute video taken from their Oct. 26, 2007 show at Temple Bar in LA.

  January 10, 2008

• Hits!

  V.I.P. Records
  

  November 1, 2007

• Sprawl of Sound

  Punk, Funk and Ganked: The Clinic Shrugs Off Barbs, Orgone’s Funk Proves Reich’s Theory Wasn’t Bunk, Crosby’s Ill Fortunes

  October 18, 2007

• Cream of Elite

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

  August 9, 2007

• Hits!

  Music Revolution

  July 12, 2007

• Cream of the Coachella Crop

  April 26, 2007

• Jean Grae, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, Mos Def

  November 10, 2005

• Prince Po

  July 8, 2004

• Fest-O-Mania Wrap-Up

  July 20, 2000

• Black Keys Hip Hop Project: Good Thing or Great Thing?

  James Carney​We may be a day or so behind on this one, but in a quest to find some ever-elusive liner note credits for Black Key's Thickfreakness album, we stumbled onto something a hundred times better. Up until now, things were staying pretty quiet on the whole "rap-rock" front, at least for the summer. Turns out BlakRoc, a musical collaboration between the Keys and some of hip hop's living legends has been brewing since June. The record comes out Nov. 27. Needless to say, we dropped the lin

  September 17, 2009