Jonah Flicker

It used to be so easy. Make music, sell your CDs, tour, sell more CDs. But now that the whole model has been demolished and CD sales account for a pittance of ...

A well-documented dichotomy exists within hip-hop, perhaps more so than in any other musical genre. On one side are artists creating ring-tone-ready commercial...

It’s a dangerous game: expounding upon the virtues of the late ’80s/early ’90s “golden era” of hip-hop to whippersnappers raised on a steady diet of 50 Cent and...

Last December, DJ Drama was comfortably on the throne of the nation’s hip-hop mixtape kingdom. The Atlanta-based DJ/producer’s signature series, Gangsta Grillz,...

Ooga Booga, an indie clothing-book-music store in Chinatown’s Central Plaza, is fairly quiet on a recent Thursday afternoon. The music of Japanese tribalists OO...

Urban Outfitters in Santa Monica, July 21 Walking through Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade, on my way to see Sonic Youth perform at Urban Outfitters, sponsored by Toyota’s Free Yr Radio campaign in support of KXLU . . . this shit’s enough to make your head spin. On this day, corporate American......

LES SAVY FAV, THE HOLD STEADY, THUNDERBIRDS ARE NOW, SWEARING AT MOTORISTS at Avalon, February 21 Spectacle has never been a big factor in indie rock. But NYC’s Frenchkiss Records, run by Les Savy Fav’s Syd Butler, seems determined to inject some. On the kickoff night for a jaunt to......