I'm going to cop this on vinyl. It's a special release that deserves to be remembered. Increasingly it seems that vinyl is the only way to really ensu...
I wanna kick Quelle Chris in the ass when he does something like this. Those of us who follow the nomadic artist of multiple disciplines know him for ...
AshTreJenkins is the nephew of The Brother, the central character from John Salley's seminal documentary, Brother From Another Planet.
While Uncle Br...
Coalescing from a cloud of backwoods smoke are Ras_G and The Koreatown Oddity, formidable in their own standings but other-worldly when merged togethe...
This past December, a forward-thinking artist who established himself as a frontrunner in avant-garde music in the 90s released his first album in 14 ...
Pulling from the heartfelt sentiment of "Dear Mama" and the irreverence of Mr. T's "Treat Your Mother Right," SelfSays completes the matriarchal tribu...
If it's not clear yet, Flying Lotus is one of the most important musicians in Los Angeles. And by that same measure, Kendrick is the most significant ...
The Koreatown Oddity emerges from the smog-filled, neon-tinted concrete jungles of Normandie Ave and Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles. Tall, lanky, a...
"Almost" is a gem. Jeremiah Jae and Knxwledge team up to create a song that sounds idyllic and just flat out feels good.
Jae is a Chicago ...
Sun Ra used to call birthdays arrival days. Today, 12-11-13 marks the latest arrival of Ras_G. The Leimert Park pharaoh of bass uses this regal occasi...
I remember seeing RUFFMERCY asking over Twitter for someone's help in procuring a "Numbers On The Boards" a capella a few weeks back. I thought it was...
In continuing their home-rolled setup of Good To B Home, Blu and Bombay released "Summertime" back around Memorial Day, but fuck that yo, it really fe...
Europe has a long standing tradition of being more progressive en masse than the US. When jazz cats were playing in bars to apathetic audiences, they ...
For someone like me who has been rapping himself to death for at least the better (or worse) part of the past decade, Zeroh is a breath of fresh, psil...
Kutmah specializes in the ethereal and other-worldy. Whether through his mixes, edits, live performances or original compositions, Kootz always manage...
Sometimes collaborations can suck. Today, creative folks can zap 1's and 0's over their digital computing machine to another creative person's digital...
Emerging from the netherworld of Gardena, CA, young Edwin Liddie, who goes by the name Zeroh, has been one of very few new MCs to catch this pretentio...