Rick Pearson, Evening Standard 15.10.08 Look here too Elbow review Queen review It started too early and finished too late, but Africa Rising was a four-hour spectacular worthy of any continent....
With its fresh wordplay and troublesome entourage, it's no surprise that Larry David's irreverent hit sitcom has inspired rap but, as Richard Watson discovers, rhyme-spitters love TV Wale's More About Nothing even samples the Soup Nazi...
How Skip McDonald played on Grandmaster Flash's groundbreaking The Message before revolutionising his first musical love. By Dave Simpson New blues ... Little Axe. Photograph: York Tillyer...
Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix has made quite the spectacle of himself the past two years or so. Surprising many, the star of "Gladiator" and "Walk the Line" claimed he had "retired" from acting in 2008, and was intent on becoming a hip-hop artist. It was unclear whether...
Image courtesy of Rhonesha Byng There are very few places where you'd see 40 year olds and 14 year olds all at the same concert, bopping and mouthing the words to the same songs, but on a muggy and rainy Saturday afternoon that was the scene as people of all ages came...
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By Mark Medley, wiith a file from Ben Kaplan, National Post July 3, 2010 10:28 AM Queen of Canadian hip hop Michie Mee was the first Canadian emcee to sign a deal with a U.S. record company. Photograph by: Handout It’s widely acknowledged that the “Golden Age” of hip...
Five years after exiting his post as longtime in-house producer for the label Cash Money, Mannie Fresh is releasing his first project on Chubby Boy Music/Eyecon MusicGroup: SoleFresh, an underground hip-hop teen duo hailing from New Orleans. The pair's 12-track,...
Tryenyse Jones named her first CD of spiritual hip-hop "Resilient," a title that reflects both the music and the challenge of getting it produced. "It's been a 10-year work in progress," said Jones, who is hosting a release party Thursday. "It's...
Over the past decade, Common has slowly evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man. As one of hip-hop’s few credible actors, he has graced the “silver screen” – in the midst of his GRAMMY-winning career – with several memorable performances:...