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July 24, 2008
An Interview with J Dilla's Mother, Ms. Maureen Yancey
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece discussing the difficulties J Dilla's estate has had in enforcing copyright law and paying off the six-figure IRS debt left behind. In the aftermath of the story's publication, I had the chance to speak with his mother, Ms. Maureen Yancey about Dilla's legacy and ... More >>
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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 >>
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September 16, 2008
Beyond the Stage: From the Troubadour to Medieval Times with Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz
Typically, the idea of Medieval Times conjures images of wide-eyed girls dressed in bedazzled cone hats, waving scepters, at their princess party… that, or of a berserk Jim Carrey dragging Matthew Broderick onto the sandy tournament floor for some overly competitive, Cable Guy axe wielding. Mediev ... More >>
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March 9, 2006
Free the Peoples!
On 20/20, Dilated Peoples saygoodbye to Kanye, return to basics. Indie snobs approve
Music
March 9, 2006
Bang a Bong
Dilated Peoples: L.A. b-boys hit the NBA
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December 17, 2008
Weiss' 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008
25. Prafit-"Nice Weather" The nice weather is long gone--the ostensibly immutable Los Angeles sun blotted by kidney colored clouds and cold rain. So Prafit's ode to the sizzle of July feels like an antique postcard documenting endless light, chicken breasts smothered in BBQ sauce, and basement ... More >>
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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."
Music
December 18, 2008
Pacific Heights: L.A. Weekly's Top 10 L.A. Recordings of 2008
No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more
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December 31, 2008
The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#10-1) (Sponsored By My Secret Identity )
And people acted surprised when Jerry O' Connell landed Rebecca Romjin. 10. Why? Alopecia (Anticon) It's tough to write about Why?'s breakout record without anxiously jotting down a few choice lyrics from songwriter Yoni Wolf's notebook. Not to downplay its musicianship, but Alopecia is forem ... More >>
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January 3, 2008
Dance Club Pick: DJ Babu at Boombox
Old school's in session
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January 15, 2009
Thursday Night Music Stuff in LA: The Monks film at Silent Movie Theater, DFA at the Roxy, Rootdown Soundclash at Little Temple
I love LA. Love it love it love it (except when Indie 103 gets tossed off the airwaves). One reason: nights like tonight, when the music offerings are so far-flung and wide-open that my proto-punk gene is being pulled one direction, my turntablist strand is being pulled another, and my disco-house b ... More >>
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January 19, 2009
David Axelrod to Perform His Legendary Solo Tracks Live in LA
David Axelrod, the legendary LA-based jazz/funk/breakbeat king whose work has been heavily sampled by hip hop producers, will perform some of his classic tracks live for the first time ever (though he did do something similar in London in 2004) this spring as part of the Timeless Concert Series, a ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
Live at Amoeba Records: Illa J and the Timelessness of J Dilla
Erin Broadley Los Angeles is always hot, but it's rarely warm. And cold, cavernous Amoeba Records is hardly an emotional bastion, unless you're talking caustic clerks castigating a moldering collection of Chicago records. But behind me, a group of saucer-eyed sophomore girls, eyebrow rings and flann ... More >>
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February 23, 2009
J Dilla's Legacy Honored at Luckman, Talib Kweli, De La Soul's Pos, Common, Others Make Surprise Appearances
Randall Roberts (with apologies to professional photographers everywhere)Miguel Atwood-Ferguson conducts his Suite for Ma Dukes at the Luckman Last night at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex composers/producers/musicians Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino debuted their "Suite for Ma Dukes," a colle ... More >>
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January 8, 2009
Up With People Under the Stairs
Hip-hop duo celebrates a decade in L.A.
LA Life
October 2, 2008
Best L.A. Record Label: Stones Throw Records
Hip-hop duo celebrates a decade in L.A.
Music
September 25, 2008
Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?
Four on the floor
Music
August 7, 2008
The Many Moods of Rock the Bells
Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers
Music
June 19, 2008
Who's Biting J Dilla's Beats?
Hip-hop producer's legend ascends posthumously; estate struggles to maintain control
Music
August 9, 2007
Get Your Scratch On
And Jep�s hit list of Fil-Am club nights you don�t want to miss
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December 7, 2006
stones throw discog
And Jep�s hit list of Fil-Am club nights you don�t want to miss
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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
November 23, 2006
Rock PIcks
For the week of Nov. 24 - 30
Music
June 15, 2006
Young / Gifted / Beautiful / Black
L.A.�s Murs just wants to be your favorite rapper. Is that so wrong?
Music
May 25, 2006
DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Madlib, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, MF Doom�No Shit!
L.A.�s Murs just wants to be your favorite rapper. Is that so wrong?
Music
February 16, 2006
Thank You, J Dilla
L.A.�s Murs just wants to be your favorite rapper. Is that so wrong?
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April 30, 2009
Intelligentsia's New Stones Throw Blend: Good Beat, Robust Beans, You Can Dance To It
There are many kinds of awesome in this world, and this blend of beats and beans is one of the better varieties of it. Apparently they won't be selling this at the Silverlake store, but we're busy trying to track down a pound of Intelligentsia's Stones Throw Blend to taste for ourselves.
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April 4, 2008
Jay Electronica: Much Better Than His Name Would Suggest
You may not know who Jay Electronica is yet, but I'm willing to bet that you would had he chosen a better name. Jay Electronica does not sound like the one of the most buzzed about rappers of 2008. Jay Electronica sounds like the name of a small-potatoes Milwaukee techno DJ circa 1999 who magicall ... More >>
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July 17, 2009
Light in the Attic Interviews Echo Park Producer Dave Cooley
Echo Park producer and mastering engineer Dave Cooley, who owns Elysian Masters, has worked with a lot of LA bands you know. He's produced Silversun Pickups, Darker My Love and Mickey Avalon, among others. But it's as a mastering engineer that Cooley really seems to thrive. He's been the final ear ... More >>
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December 31, 2009
The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s
From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds
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January 19, 2010
Madlib To Kick Off Album-A-Month Series At Good Hurt Thursday [MP3]
(stonesthrow.com)It's no secret that L.A.'s best-kept secret, hip-hop producer extraordinaire Madlib, is a prolific dude. During the aughts, he helmed upwards of 20 albums operating under numerous pseudonyms -- Quasimoto, DJ Rels, Yesterday's New Quintet -- and released a handful of classics ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
J Dilla Day: Remembering the Legendary Producer 4 Years Gone
J Dilla Day: Remembering the Legendary Producer 4 Years Gone
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February 12, 2010
Watch: Sao Paulo's Cibelle Pays Tribute To J Dilla's "Lightworks" [MP3]
The late, great Jay DeeAs West Coast Sound scribe Drew Tewksbury just reported, Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the tragic passing of legendary hip-hop producer J Dilla, a.k.a. James Yancey. After years of excellent behind-the-scenes production work, Dilla rose to fame as a member ... More >>
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February 15, 2010
Cut Chemist To Lead Delicious Vinyl DJ Lab
Cut Chemist leads labOn Saturday, historic L.A. hip-hop label Delicious Vinyl will host the second installment of its all-star DJ workshop series at its recently opened Hollywood retail/gallery space Freak City. January's inaugural session featured Fat Lip of The Pharcyde alongside a lesser-k ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
Stones Throw in Toronto: Video of the Posse Up North [MP3]
Pitchfork.tv is currently running a pretty interesting short documentary about Stones Throw Records' recent sojourn to Toronto for a showcase, and if you're a fan of any of their artists, it's a good chance to watch them all record shopping. The best part is watching MF Doom browsing the racks wit ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Cut Chemist Performs An Intimate Set For Aspiring DJs
Vancouver can have the Winter Games. Here in sunny Southern California, land of the endless summer, our Olympic feats our perennial, and so much cooler than ice dancing. Take DJing for instance -- turntablism, or the art of scratch. Influential as New York was in getting the wheels (of steel) ... More >>
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March 18, 2010
J Dilla Estate Drops Unreleased Gem, "Safety Dance," and Greatest Slipmats Ever
Dilla for the digital DJThough we know very little about the man's culinary tastes, it makes a certain kind of sense (the stoner-y kind) that the donut has become a symbol of late, great hip-hop producer J Dilla. Tasty loops were a widely known specialty of the beatsmith, who lived out his ... More >>
Music
April 1, 2010
Music Picks: Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Bad Religion, Non
Also, The Wedding Present, Phil Alvin and others
Music
June 24, 2010
The Madlib Mystique
An exclusive interview with underground hip-hop's most elusive producer
Blogs
June 24, 2010
On the Cover: The Elusive Madlib Gives His First U.S. Interview in Four Years
Star ForemanFor this week's L.A. Weekly cover story, writer Jeff Weiss pens an intimate piece on L.A.'s own oft-elusive living legend, Madlib. We visit the producer in his hallowed studio, "surrounded by samplers, CDs, cassette decks, 4- and 8-track recorders, keyboards and drum kits -- no c ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Peanut Butter Wolf's 5 Favorite Stones Throw Releases
by Peanut Butter Wolf In honor of Jeff Weiss' "The Madlib Mystique," which graces the cover of the on-stand issue of L.A. Weekly, we asked Stones Throw Record head honcho Chris "Peanut Butter Wolf" Manak for his five favorite records he's released over the years. The renowned DJ put his own spin on ... More >>
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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
February 3, 2011
A Cure for the Monday Funk
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 >>
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February 7, 2011
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 >>
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April 4, 2011
Exclusive Mix- J. Rocc Gives Us "Some Cold Rock Stuf"
J.Rocc at the Do-OverOne of Cali's finest, the world famous J. Rocc, drops his double album, Some Cold Rock Stuf, tomorrow on similarly solid label Stones Throw. Because he's as nice in real life as on the turntables, he gave us an exclusive mix in anticipation of the release. One of the or ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 20-16
Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party waits for no man. So while we watched the tubes for Detox, Los ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List
Editor's note: In conjunction with our music issue we rolled out the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time this week, as picked by Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff. But the list was broken up into four posts, which can get a bit unwieldy, so we've compiled the full list ... More >>
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November 12, 2011
Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley -- 11/11/11/ Party -- Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
Lainna FaderGaslamp KillerPeanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley, Hyasynth and others 11/11/11/ Party Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Since 2006, Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf has specialized in numerically-aligned calendar day parties. Last night's party, which went f ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Madlib
Lainna FaderGaslamp KillerPeanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley, Hyasynth and others 11/11/11/ Party Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Since 2006, Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf has specialized in numerically-aligned calendar day parties. Last night's party, which went f ... More >>
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