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Music
February 7, 2013
Nosaj Thing Is Back
But the producer and Low End Theory stalwart is not in the mood to party
Blogs
January 14, 2013
Eight Rules for White People Who Like Hip-Hop
White people and their sometimes-problematic place in hip-hop culture have been in the news recently. At The New Republic last week Dave Bry mulled Chief Keef and whether it's ok for white music critics to like violent rap, while we wrote about white entertainers who think they have a pass to say th ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2012
Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop
Hip-hop is nearly 40, but many still find this slightly-disorienting world of beats, rhymes and oversize personalities a bit daunting. So consider this our hip-hop Cliff's notes; here are the albums you should know about if you don't want to look silly at cocktail parties. We're not saying these a ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Phife Dawg Is Down With Posthumous Holograms, Likes Funyons
See Also: Michael Rapaport's A Tribe Called Quest Documentary A lazy reader of the internet would believe that since A Tribe Called Quest's 1998 breakup, Q-Tip has a platinum album and Grammy wins, while Phife Dawg has done little more than gotten a kidney transplant and eaten a bag of Funyons. Of ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
Top 5 Music Documentaries the Academy Should Consider This Year
Tomorrow the Academy will announce the nominees for the 2012 Oscars. Best documentary has always been one of the most controversial categories, from the snubbing of Hoop Dreams to Michael Moore's loudmouth acceptance speeches to Banksy's denial a year ago. In hopes that they get things right this ye ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2011
Common - House of Blues - December 21, 2011
Common House of Blues December 21, 2011 Attempting to get everyone in the mood last night, Power 106's DJ Reflex spun classics from folks like Souls of Mischief, A Tribe Called Quest, and Pete Rock & CL Smooth. He attempted to throw in some more recent, mainstream songs and played a few cuts ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2011
Justin Bua's Paintings Of His Most Influential Rappers
Justin BuaJustin Bua is a hip-hop painter; you may have seen the print of his painting "The DJ" (see below), at Target, of all places. It's been out for over a decade, and has been selling ridiculous amounts of copies for years. He's done portraits of everyone from Nas to Kool Herc to Quee ... More >>
Music
November 3, 2011
Low End Theory Anniversary
The story of the influential party from those who created it
Blogs
October 17, 2011
There's Three Of Us, But We're Not The Beatles: The Ten Most Illogical Rap Lyrics In History
Wait, where's Ringo?By Chaz Kangas "No one ever climbs a ladder alone," said Bill Clinton at his Hollywood Bowl fete on Saturday. This makes not a lick of sense. But perhaps he was just taking cues from the world of hip-hop, which is famous for its wildly inaccurate and illogical statements. ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Having Already Influenced Every Rapper You Like, Freestyle Fellowship Are Back
Trevor TreynorSunshine men go dark and sky rappers eventually touch cement, but Freestyle Fellowship swore that they would never fall the fuck off. That was the promise of 1991, the pre-riot boiling point when their first hand-hawked collection of songs, To Whom It May Concern, crushed casset ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2011
Top Five Rapping Basketball Players Phil Jackson Might Actually Like
Phil Jackson, of all people, recently had some harsh words for "Fix The Knicks," the odd, showtuney-tune penned by New York Knicks owner James Dolan. (You can hear it here.) Dolan needs either "a better lyricist or a better musician," Jackson said. Ouch! Of course, it's hard to disagree with ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
Wanna Own a Legendary Record Label? Black Jazz Puts Itself Up for Sale
Story by Brett Koshkin Neither John Coltrane nor Herbie Hancock ever recorded for the Bay Area-based Black Jazz label that flourished in the '70s West Coast jazz scene. Far from being a commercial powerhouse, the label concentrated on an epicurean selection of then-fresh faced soul-jazz musi ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
Top Ten Rap Remixes Of '90s R&B Songs
Take thatThis Friday, the Stokely Williams-fronted Mint Condition will be taking the stage at Club Nokia. The group came to prominence in the '90s with the huge hit ballad "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" But beyond Mint Condition's slick soul moments, the band also embraced the mid-'90s trend ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
Ten Groups Who Never Should Have Gotten Back Together
Beware fellas, bad things may be coming your wayOn New Year's Eve 2009, Chris Cornell made a Twitter declaration: "School's back in session." The implication was that Soundgarden was reuniting. However, it took several months for the official announcement. The grunge pioneers would be putting ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
R.I.P. Alphonso "Fonce" Mizell
Alphonso "Fonce" MizellAlphonso "Fonce" Mizell, member of Motown hit-makers The Corporation and half of the production duo The Mizell Brothers, has passed away. He was 68 years old. The cause of death is unknown. Mizell was recruited by writer-producer Deke Richards to join The Corporation, ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Last Night: Beats Rhymes & Life Party with Madlib, Phife, Peanut Butter Wolf, and Prince Paul
Lainna FaderPhife from A Tribe Called QuestThe inaugural edition of Paper Ships was a party celebrating the release of Michael Rapaport's documentary, Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, which opens in L.A. and New York today. Featuring sets from frosty (Dublab), Garth T ... More >>
Music
July 7, 2011
Michael Rapaport's A Tribe Called Quest Documentary
Lainna FaderPhife from A Tribe Called QuestThe inaugural edition of Paper Ships was a party celebrating the release of Michael Rapaport's documentary, Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, which opens in L.A. and New York today. Featuring sets from frosty (Dublab), Garth T ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
Beats, Rhymes, and Strife: How Michael Rapaport Learned the Hard Way Why A Tribe Called Quest Just Can't Get Along
Kevin ScanlonMichael Rapaport with his lone ATCQ supporter, Phife DawgMichael Rapaport answers the door to his Hancock Park house with a vague look of panic on his familiar, strawberry-blond mop-topped face. As he struggles to restrain two massive dogs so I can make my way into his home, I no ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2010
Urban Nomad: Gettin' High with B-Real at SmokeOut Festival (Video Interview Exclusive Performance!)
Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The URBAN NOMAD gets smoked out by B-Real of Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Fest. B-Real talks about medical marijuana and the certification needed to make s ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2010
Over the Weekend: Rock the Bells Hip-Hop Festival, featuring Snoop, Wu-Tang, Lauryn Hill
Kasey StokesMethod Man of Wu-Tang ClanAs it turns out, you should not fuck tha police. Our Rock the Bells road trip began promisingly: left for San Bernardino early, avoided traffic. We'd maintained a cool objectivity all week, but now were free to exclaim over the lineup, a mix of ones-to- ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Attention J-Dilla Heads: Slum Village's T3 on Finally Releasing the Album, Dilla's pre-Tribe Beginnings and that Whole "New Native Tongues" Reputation
E1 MusicSlum Village's T3: No fear of a black hat"The idea for a Slum Village reunion album came from a conversation I had with J Dilla before he passed away," says T3, the last living member of the beloved Detroit rap group. Released this week, Villa Manifesto is a fitting end to the Slum Vi ... More >>
Music
May 27, 2010
Music Picks: Free Kutmah Benefit, Amanda Jo Williams, Rosie Ledet
Also, Svarte Greiner, Miike Snow, School of Seven Bells and others
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra's "Take Notice," Based on Music of J Dilla, Video Premiere [MP3]
Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra "Take Notice" Video Premiere [MP3]
Blogs
December 15, 2009
Guest Blogger Jason Reitman on 14 Perfect Musical Moments
Editor's note. This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for five Golden Globes this morning (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2009
First Listen: Wayward Saints Meld Downbeat, Hip Hop, and Far Out Jazz
First Listen: Wayward Saints Meld Downbeat, Hip Hop, and Far Out Jazz MP3
Blogs
July 3, 2009
Soul of the Samurai: Afro Samurai Creator Takashi Okazaki Shares the Tunes Behind His Characters
Takashi Okazaki always liked the idea of being a DJ. In fact, he apparently has a pretty hefty collection of hip-hop, funk and soul on vinyl that needs to upload to his computer. But, as Okazaki said through a translator during our interview at Anime Expo, he thought that all DJs "were really cool ... More >>
LA Life
April 23, 2009
LA People 2009: Writer, no Biter — Jim Lang
Takashi Okazaki always liked the idea of being a DJ. In fact, he apparently has a pretty hefty collection of hip-hop, funk and soul on vinyl that needs to upload to his computer. But, as Okazaki said through a translator during our interview at Anime Expo, he thought that all DJs "were really cool ... More >>
Music
January 8, 2009
Up With People Under the Stairs
Hip-hop duo celebrates a decade in L.A.
Blogs
December 25, 2008
From Cool Kids to Kanye: Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008
By Dan Leroy A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2008
Tonight at the El Rey: People Under the Stairs Come Up for Some Air
"We'd been around the world ten times and done Glastonbury, Redding, and Leeds before people had even thought about leaving LA. And we've never been heralded by any local media."
Blogs
November 14, 2008
Don't Miss This Show: Oliver Wang on Q-Tip, the Cool Kids (MP3), the Knux and Pacific Division at H.O.B.
Saturday, November 15 Q-Tip, The Cool Kids at House of Blues It has been nine years since Q-Tip's last album yet strangely, it hasn't seemed so long. That says much about the enduring power of Q-Tip's old band, A Tribe Called Quest - guaranteed to be in heavy rotation on iPod playlists for any hi ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2008
Q-Tip's-"Move"
I can't tell how much I like Q-Tip's, The Renaissance. It's good sure, but it's impossible to listen to without noting the elephant in the room: the fact that Q-Tip has been a.w.o.l. for most of the decade and y'know, that whole "centerpiece of one of the greatest groups of all-time" thing. So wi ... More >>
Music
September 25, 2008
Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?
Four on the floor
Blogs
September 15, 2008
Solillaquists of Sound, J-Live and Chali 2Na Release a Tribute Song to J Dilla, Inspired By LA Weekly Article/Follow-Up Interview With Dilla's Mom, Ms. Maureen Yancey
Still a little stunned by this one. I suppose we can chalk this up as some minor triumph to the power of the media, at a time when the Fourth Estate isn't exactly going through its finest moment. I'm not in the habit of running press releases in full, but I'll make the exception after the jump. I ... More >>
Music
August 7, 2008
The Many Moods of Rock the Bells
Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers
Music
January 10, 2008
No One Wants to Smoke a Blunt with Lupe Fiasco
Nerd alert
Music
September 6, 2007
Decision 2007: Kanye West vs. 50 Cent
A voter’s guide to the most important rap election in a generation
News
December 7, 2006
Rebel Central
The fantastical real-life story of L.A.�s Stones Throw Records, a hip-hop legend in the making
Music
April 27, 2006
Freaky Kinky Nation
The weird-ass, beautiful history of �80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records
Music
February 16, 2006
Rawk Your Body!
L.A. club DJs mix indie rock and hip-hop; world does not explode
Music
February 16, 2006
Garth Trinidad & Friends
GARTH TRINIDAD & FRIENDS �Chocolate City� birthday at The Roxy, February 10
Music
February 16, 2006
Thank You, J Dilla
GARTH TRINIDAD & FRIENDS �Chocolate City� birthday at The Roxy, February 10
Music
December 22, 2005
Laptop Laserium
Used in concert by Seal � Seal! � G-Force is one trippy-ass program
Music
April 25, 2002
Love in the Abstract
Used in concert by Seal � Seal! � G-Force is one trippy-ass program
Music
March 30, 2000
Mas Better Party
Used in concert by Seal � Seal! � G-Force is one trippy-ass program
Music
December 30, 1999
Thieves Like Us
Stalking classic rock with the Charlatans UK
Music
December 9, 1999
Can You Kick It?
The most beautifullest Tribe Called Quest
Music
December 2, 1999
No More Rain
Angie Stone's sweet soul for a better day
Music
May 20, 1999
Corruptors
The rap on Styles of Beyond
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