See also: *Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round *Ice Cube Talks Art, Boyz n the Hood, and Why He Makes Comedies G's often age awkwardly. The cop killer became a TV lawman. The guy who cribbed his name from an animated dog is......
Keeping up with Madlib has always been a fool's errand. Even before the revered hip-hop producer blew minds with his fabricated jazz band Yesterdays New Quintet, blew chronic smoke with his MF Doom collaboration Madvillain, and blew past the atmosphere with his rapping alter ego Quasimoto, Otis Jackson Jr. was......
Today, representatives of Radiohead will hand out free copies of the band's one-off newspaper, The Universal Sigh, at three L.A.-area locations. The experimental promotion began abroad yesterday, and the paper's website is already hosting photos of happy recipients, grinning despite the publication's dour title and subject matter (sample article headline:......
Though Portland's Emil Amos has made a name for himself drumming for others — post-rockers Grails, doom-metal act Om — he has created a legend for himself as Holy Sons. He's quietly released album after genre-bending album, mostly without any help from labels, modeling his early career after the lo-fi......
Who would've thought that lone dudes playing with laptops in their bedrooms would've become the Valley's next great export after pornography? Okay, ...
Post-rockers don't talk. They don't write lyrics, and they sure as shit don't sing. They name their songs in eight words or more, or don't name them at all, as if to obfuscate any radio DJ who would dare play them or short-circuit the Billboard charts that wouldn't have them......
"I'm wasting away, in every way / I'm wasting my time, all of my time / I'm wasted again, with none of my friends / ... but that's alright with me / ... I got TV." We love Wavves. No one does slacker better, and it seems appropriate that as......
He's been called "the savior of lo-fi music." He's been called "a pure artist." He's been called a combination of "repulsion and intrigue." Yeah, we're pretty sure Toronto-based YouTube star Tonetta has been called a lot of things -- famous as he is for lip-syncing and gyrating to his own......
The ever controversial Odd Future (OFWGKTA) rap collective is set to perform tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We're not sure what this means, but we imagine a certain amount of destruction, danger and disrespect will be involved. (At least, we hope.) Earlier today, Roots drummer Questlove hopped on......
Fresno rap up-and-comer and local pot promoter (hey, bruh, keep the green in Grizzly City), Fashawn has just dropped a new mixtape/free album via XXL Magazine. You should cop it, if only to hear what a black Bart Simpson sounds like rapping. (We actually think Fash owes West Coast Sound......