Although Coachella has become better at getting headline hip-hop acts in the big font category, the festival has typically thrown its weight behind a wide swath of rock acts and tents full of electronic music heavy hitters. Last year’s lineup (with the exception of a memorable if divisive act from Kanye) felt at least a [...]
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Coachella 2012: GET PSYCHED (Part 5)
Posted: March 13, 2012 by Eric Solomon in MusicTags: A$AP Rocky, Childish Gambino, coachella, Company Flow, Dr. Dre, Frank Ocean, hip-hop, Snoop Dogg
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This Is My Jam: Public Enemy’s “By The Time I Get To Arizona”
Posted: January 18, 2012 by Sean Flinn in Editorial, MusicTags: hip-hop, public enemy
With the United States celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday this week (his birthday is January 15; we mark the occasion with a holiday and a national “day of service“), I thought I’d “jam” to a song that marked the occasion — and chose Public Enemy’s incendiary 1991 bombtrack “By The Time I Get To Arizona.” [...]
Lost in Space: An Interview with Kool Keith
Posted: May 26, 2000 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: hip-hop, kool keith
ADULT VIDEO BLOWOUT: $5.99! The blazing neon sign is the mom ‘n’ pop video store’s only identifying feature. It catches the eye of Kool Keith’s music publisher immediately, Keith having jumped out of my car to return two videos, minus their dust jackets. “They don’t rent videos without dust jackets, do they?” Keith’s music publisher [...]
