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Grandmaster Flash

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Ten Rap-Rock Songs That Are Actually Awesome

    See also: Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him Rap-rock remains the coolest idea ever. You've just been scared off of it by the mountain of terrible rap-rock in existence. Here are ten songs that prove the Woodstock '99-tainted genre could ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Nic Adler On Balistyx And The Genesis Of Grandmaster B

    Kevin Scanlon​See also: Bud Bundy's Rap Career?! Hear David Faustino's Music Our cover story this week "Bud Bundy, Original Gangsta" focuses on David Faustino and his Balistyx party, which ran for two years in the early '90s and helped bring hip-hop to the west coast mainstream. Faustino's me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Scarface Is Out Of Jail, Performs At Key Club Tomorrow: Excerpts From His Last Interview

    ​Scarface plays the Key Club tomorrow night. This is big news, considering most folks didn't even know that the greatest of all southern rappers was out of the pen. In October 2010 he began a term at Montgomery County Jail in Alabama over numerous unresolved child support cases. (There is also ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Afrika Bambaataa Plays Tomorrow, Inspires Our Top Five Electro Anthems Of All Time

    Afrika Bambaataa​Along with Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa is a card-carrying member of hip-hop's holy trinity. Back in the genre's baby years, Bam helped bring competing Bronx streets gangs together in the name of musical unity, and cut the seminal electro track, 1982's "Pl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey

    Afrika Bambaataa​Along with Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa is a card-carrying member of hip-hop's holy trinity. Back in the genre's baby years, Bam helped bring competing Bronx streets gangs together in the name of musical unity, and cut the seminal electro track, 1982's "Pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Girl Talk vs. Deadmau5: Which Non-DJ Rocks the Party Harder?

    Timothy NorrisThe dance floor at the Palladium for Girl Talk.​Read more in Ali Trachta's story "Mash-Up Party in the USA: The LA Weekly Interview with Girl Talk." Over the course of the past week, both Deadmau5 and Girl Talk, two of the biggest names in dance-oriented music, have played Los A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Top 5 Hottest L.A. Lady DJs in 2010: The Sequel (Now with More Supertalented Spinnin' Hotties)

    Daisy O'DellThe Divine Miss O: Daisy O'Dell being awesome​ One of the amazing things about the aughts (aka, the '00s) is that there are too many female DJs for me to fit on yesterday's Top Five Hottest L.A. Lady DJs in 2010 list. Yes. This was not the case ten years ago, and I am happy to rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Richard "Scar" Lopez, Founding Member of Pioneering East LA Chicano Rock Combo Cannibal and the Headhunters, Dead at 65

    Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

  • Music

    June 17, 2010

    Re: Versions

    Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

  • Music

    December 24, 2009

    Eve of Destruction

    Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

  • Music

    November 5, 2009

    Not the Usual Haunts

    Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Duran Duran Goes Record Shopping at Amoeba [Video]

    Duran Duran recently landed at Amoeba Records in SF to go record shopping, and it's a pretty informative little tidbit. Why are we posting this in LA? Dunno. Maybe because John Taylor lives in LA? He gives a shout-out to the LA Amoeba store? Because we can? Simon LeBon buys Neu and Patti Smith, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 28, 2008

    Where the Spin Begins

    Duran Duran recently landed at Amoeba Records in SF to go record shopping, and it's a pretty informative little tidbit. Why are we posting this in LA? Dunno. Maybe because John Taylor lives in LA? He gives a shout-out to the LA Amoeba store? Because we can? Simon LeBon buys Neu and Patti Smith, ... More >>

  • Music

    August 7, 2008

    The Many Moods of Rock the Bells

    Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers

  • LA Life

    May 15, 2008

    Meat Loaf

    Do you love me?

  • Music

    February 14, 2008

    Grammy Kisses

    Pre-awards parties; star spotting; survival of the hippest

  • Music

    January 24, 2008

    Lights and Flash

    Room with a groove; "White Lines" blow your way; stars and artists Zero in

  • Music

    January 17, 2008

    Coomb-Over

    Lee Coombs, Simply Jeff at Nacional; and a Grand ol' surprise at The Rootdown

  • Music

    August 3, 2006

    Moca Brings the Noise!

    Lee Coombs, Simply Jeff at Nacional; and a Grand ol' surprise at The Rootdown

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Freaky Kinky Nation

    The weird-ass, beautiful history of ’80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records

  • Music

    March 30, 2006

    Yarr Yarr Yarr

    Singin' like a pirate, lookin' for a song

  • News

    December 29, 2005

    Naa Na Na Na Naa

    How the West Coast Eastside sound changed rock & roll

  • Music

    October 13, 2005

    Nightranger

    How the West Coast Eastside sound changed rock & roll

  • Art+Books

    July 14, 2005

    Basquiat Case

    Brooklyn’s artful dodger

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Pirates, Pimps, Artists and Anarchy

    Hollywood’s Gershwin Hotel is a freak’s paradise

  • Art+Books

    March 10, 2005

    Before Bling

    Hip-hop’s storied past

  • Music

    January 29, 2004

    The Beat That Kills

    Hip-hop’s storied past

  • Supplement

    December 11, 2003

    Bay City Blues

    Compton’s evolution from mild-mannered L.A. backwater to ground zero of ghetto nation makes cowards — and accomplices — of us all

  • LA Life

    November 20, 2003

    The Life of the Party

    Gendy Alimurung keeps a diary as she stalks Jeffrey Best, Zen planner of L.A. parties

  • LA Life

    November 20, 2003

    Music To Party Like a Duckfucker

    Gendy Alimurung keeps a diary as she stalks Jeffrey Best, Zen planner of L.A. parties

  • Columns

    October 16, 2003

    Anthems for a New Century

    Gendy Alimurung keeps a diary as she stalks Jeffrey Best, Zen planner of L.A. parties

  • Music

    October 9, 2003

    The Real Black Realness

    Gendy Alimurung keeps a diary as she stalks Jeffrey Best, Zen planner of L.A. parties

  • Music

    August 22, 2002

    Hooked on Sonics

    Gendy Alimurung keeps a diary as she stalks Jeffrey Best, Zen planner of L.A. parties

  • Music

    May 31, 2001

    The Weather Prophet

    Gendy Alimurung keeps a diary as she stalks Jeffrey Best, Zen planner of L.A. parties

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    Dr. Kool's Pop Quiz

    Keith Thornton, Ph.d., an old professor from the new school, knows rap is here to test you

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

    Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

  • Music

    August 10, 2000

    SuperDJ!

    The mild-mannered world of Simply Jeff

  • Music

    July 13, 2000

    The World Outside, Again

    Never mind the bollocks, reissues can be newer than new

  • Music

    December 2, 1999

    Still D.R.E.

    Never mind the bollocks, reissues can be newer than new

  • Music

    August 5, 1999

    Groove Robbers

    Never mind the bollocks, reissues can be newer than new

  • Music

    March 26, 1998

    As the World Turns

    Timbaland, Magoo and Ma$e: These are the daze of our lives

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