Kyle Eustice

Los Angeles. 1983. The hip-hop from the East Coast that included Sugarhill Gang's “Rapper's Delight” and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five's “The Message” had made its way west, where the electro and party rap scenes were exploding.

The Parliament-Funkadelic bass wizard is making mental health awareness the north star of his latest project

“That's a classic.” Rakim is reflecting on the 2025 Grandmaster Hip Hop Awards that took place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas last October, when

The eldest Marley's first solo album since 2020 opens a door he'd kept shut: a song written directly to Bob. Ziggy talks grief, the health he guards at 57, the science of 432 Hz and why the corporatization of cannabis worries him the way industrial food does.

Over August 8 and 9, the Philadelphia-born festival will descend on London's Crystal Palace Bowl, the same 8,000-cap venue that has hosted such legendary acts as Pink Floyd, the Who, and Bob Marley

It’s a full circle moment for the Roots, who early in their career relocated to London to record their 1993 debut album, Organix. Often referred to as their “Hendrix moment”—a nod to Jimi Hendrix’s mo...

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Shenandoah is a small Iowa farming town with less than 5,000 people. It's home to Earl May Seed Company and KMA, a local radio station that helped launch the careers of The Everly Brothers and Charlie Haden in the 1950s. It's also where Tara Cowherd Richardson, the executive director and founder of the Omaha-based vocal ensemble Résonance, was born.

Los Angeles in the early 1980s was undoubtedly wild—cocaine was a routine party favor, reaching near-epidemic proportions throughout the entertainment industry, dance clubs were bumping with new wave, and gang wars were exploding in the city.