Don’t pit this against Ruff Draft or Donuts – it’s not fair. Artwork by Henry Mangelsdorf This is not Donuts. A posthumous release from the J.Dilla camp, Dillatronic is a 41 track sonic ride featuring all-new unreleased material...
One of the reasons I love social media so much, aside from the fact that it pays my bills, is following the day to day accounts of artists I’ve always admired or looked up to. If you consider...
True art, especially in our industry, takes passion. There are ups and downs – and periods of limbo where artists need to either find their style, or themselves. When it clicks, it clicks, and everything always falls into...
Hip-hop is an art form, much like painting, with many of it’s disciples creating lustrous portraits of gritty, everyday reality – sans smock and paint brush of course. Some (music) artists, though, see the parallel between the fussy,...
Fat Beats, aside from being the go-to new york record spot for legendary DJ’s in NYC during hip-hop’s golden age, was also a congregation circle for underground emcees on the come up. In it’s last few years, though,...
Win a free copy of Stretch & Bobbito‘s new award-winning documentary Radio That Changed Lives. Winner will receive a digital stream/optional download of the new film via secure Vimeo account. http://youtu.be/-Gm5OhJszpU Enter below! Enter Competition
Are you already making plans to visit the 2016 Coachella Music Festival in Coachella Valley? Well, you’ll want to plan to hit up the Coachella Valley Wind Up at the Saxony Convention Centre. It’s a three-weekend party featuring...
Hip-hop and comics are no strangers. From enlisting artists to create album covers, to just being book junkies, there has always been a strong relationship – and why not? They are two mediums built on the concept of...