Dilated Peoples

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 1 Morrissey and Patti Smith STAPLES CENTER The Staples Center has been making headlines by going all-vegetarian for Morrissey's March 1 visit, a request that even Paul McCartney has been denied in the past. A meat-free Staples deserves mention, but it still doesn't impress more than t ... More >>

Music Picks: Fishbone, the Growlers, Redd Kross

Music Picks: Lamb of God, Miike Snow, and Hanni El Khatib

Music Picks: Regina Carter, Madness, Melvins, Grace Woodroofe

Also, Neon Indian, Moab, Damien Jurado and others

Dumbfoundead

Koreatown rapper inspires a tremendous following with his unlikely story

Evidence: A Conscious Rapper Who Doesn't Mind Being Called As Much

See also: Pictures Of Rappers' Cats (Including Evidence's Mr. Drummer) Evidence has a history as a tagger. An apt metaphor since, like graffiti, he's not loud and you can see him everywhere. But only if you're looking. The Los Angeles native came of age in the '90s with Dilated Peoples. Since the ... More >>

Pictures Of Rappers' Cats, and a Snoop Dogg Feline Bombshell!

​Last week we brought you pictures of jazz players with presidents. It was pretty awesome, particularly Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon. But now, something even better: Pictures of rappers' cats! Fact is, while canines are a common subject (and metaphor) in hip-hop songs, felines don't appea ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

"Is This the Playboy Mansion, or a Studio?" Creating Hip Hop's Fantasy Camp

​Last year, as SXSW'ers swarmed downtown Austin, Texas, Alexander "DJ RTC" Fruchter rented a palatial mansion in the nearby hills for four days and set about creating a "hip-hop fantasy camp." Rappers like Freddie Gibbs, Fashawn, Rhymefest, and Kanye West associate GLC passed through, hung out ... More >>

The Black Rap Bart Simpson Returns: Fresno's Fashwan Drops New J. Cole-Featuring Mixtape

​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 some ... More >>

It's J. Dilla's Birthday! Here's the Best Way to Celebrate It

​Only the good die young. J Dilla -- the Detroit producer who was a founding member of the Soulquarians collective (along with Questlove, D'Angelo and James Poyser) and is heralded as one of the most influential producers in hip-hop -- passed away five years ago this month. But House Shoes, Di ... More >>

A Cure for the Monday Funk

Rock Picks: DJ Spinna, Bodega Girls, Andre Nickatina, Elevated Suspects

Also, Hilary Hahn, People Under the Stairs, KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas and others

Music Picks: Sweaters, Jonathan Richman, Hanni El Khatib, Henry Rollins

Also, Aloe Blacc, Maren Parusel, the Greenhornes and others

Music Picks: Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Bad Religion, Non

Also, The Wedding Present, Phil Alvin and others

The Continuing Education of Freddie Gibbs: A Follow-Up To This Week's Cover Story

​ Thursday's cover story on Gary, Indiana-raised rapper Freddie Gibbs, engendered a substantial response within the hip-hop blogosphere, with prominent sites Rap Radar, Nah Right, Fake Shore Drive, and The Smoking Section, all taking note. Even Wale twittered a congratulations message. Cons ... More >>

Last Night: Brother Ali and the Night of Three E-V's (Evidence, Evelyn and ... Everlast)

It's easy to think that underground hip-hop is dead. The Internet has equalized everything to the point that there isn't much difference between Mos Def's and Mickey Factz's marketing plan, or Elzhi's and Eminem's, or Wale's and Will.i.am's. During the WWWization of the rap world, the next generatio ... More >>

Up With People Under the Stairs

Hip-hop duo celebrates a decade in L.A.

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."

Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?

Four on the floor

Rock Picks: Pacha Massive, Calexico, Juliana Hatfield

Also, We the People Festival, Temple Bar farewell, Mad Juana and more

Sunset Strip Music Festival

SXSW Day 1-My Morning Jacket Prove That They May Be Invincible and Britt Daniel is Everywhere

If you do a Google Image search for "Austin" this is one of the first things that pops up. Two girls at the 1998 Austin Corvette Day. Granted, this probably has nothing at all to do with SXSW--yet judging by my first impressions of this place, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if by the end ... More >>

Concerts and Tickets Coming Up

Autechre - 4/14, Echoplex Bad Religion - 3/4,5,11,13, House of Blues Bamboozle (All-American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Paramore) - 4/5, Verizon Amphitheater Bamboozle (My Chemical Romance, Anti-Flag, Saves the Day, Chiodos) - 4/6, Verizon Amphitheater Bjorkestra - 3/9 , Safari Sam's Black Keys ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: DJ Babu at Boombox

Old school's in session

Get Your Scratch On

And Jep’s hit list of Fil-Am club nights you don’t want to miss

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DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Madlib, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, MF Doom—No Shit!

Free the Peoples!

On 20/20, Dilated Peoples saygoodbye to Kanye, return to basics. Indie snobs approve

Bang a Bong

Dilated Peoples: L.A. b-boys hit the NBA

Housequake!

DILATED PEOPLES at House of Blues, February 22

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Can You See It

L.A.’s underground Visionaries make “honest music for the masses”

The Mad Science of Fredwreck

Snoop, Xzibit and Dr. Dre all praise the Palestinian-American freak of beats

When Legend Precedes

The erstwhile John Stephens’ uphill battle with the hype

A Night at LAWMA 2004

LAWMA 2004

Back in Black

Hooked on Sonics

Turntablin’

Scratch takes its beats beyond the bling-bling

Down for the Good Life

A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

Roll With the New

L.A.’s hip-hop underground keeps it . . . “real”

Work the Angles

Dilated Peoples in the main event

Lunatik Derelikts

Free 2 B V & Legacy

Beat Seeker

Don't punk Julio G

New Trad, Dad

Mark Lanegan uncovered