Big Boi and André 3000 of Outkast in 1995. Photo: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images. Last weekend I was in Atlanta for a work conference. It’s a great town, but it’s in the Eastern time zone and it was humid, so I was in no condition to be writing anything. I…

Post Malone performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2023. Sean Liming/STAFF. NAPA — Thousands of attendees packed the Napa Valley Expo on Friday on the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. The weather cooperated for once, with highs in…

Danger Mouse and Black Thought, “Cheat Codes.” The last time audiences were graced with an official collaboration between renowned producer Danger Mouse and a prominent hip-hop artist was in 2005 with MF DOOM (as DANGERDOOM). The wait is finally over, as Black Thought joins forces with Brian Burton and takes center stage…

Our list of the 20 best hip-hop albums of 2020 includes Megan Thee Stallion, Big Sean, Backxwash, Dizzee Rascal, Busta Rhymes, Aminé, Bambu, Nas, Public Enemy, R.A. the Rugged Man, Benny the Butcher, Eminem, Logic, Homeboy Sandman, Royce da 5’9″, Aesop Rock, clipping., Black Thought, Run the Jewels and…

Rapper Killer Mike, former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young (c) and Bounce TV founder Ryan Glover. Courtesy. Rapper Killer Mike, former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young and Bounce TV founder Ryan Glover have launched a new online bank targeted toward people in the Black and Latinx communities, called Greenwood. Greenwood has secured $3…

If you woke up in the Bay Area at some point last week you were probably greeted with dark red and orange skies as a result of the ongoing fires that are devastating the West Coast right now. People flocked to social media to share pictures of the hellscape,…

Duo Killer Mike and El-P have maintained a spotlight in hip-hop since they formed Run The Jewels in 2013. Both started as underground icons who shot to superstardom with their self titled debut. Seven years later and three albums strong, they have continued to set the standard for hardcore, political…

Gotye in his birthday suit We’re getting distressingly close to now, which is making it much harder to pick songs. Time is a fantastic filter. With every year that passes a bunch of mediocre songs are forgotten, so as we get closer to now I’m worried I’m going to…

At 54 years old, and 26 years after his most famous band’s debut, guitarist Tom Morello is releasing The Atlas Underground, an album of collaborations with a variety of contemporary musicians. The Atlas Underground Tom Morello Oct. 12 This stage of Morello’s career recalls Santana, who released 1999’s Supernatural at…

Run the Jewels perform at the National Civic Center in San Jose on Feb. 2, 2017. Jason Demetillo/STAFF. SAN JOSE — A rambunctious army of Run the Jewels fans gathered at City National Civic for the first of two Bay Area shows Thursday night ready to let out their anger…