Category: Music

A Tribe Called Quest was one of hip-hop’s most innovative acts. Q-Tip was their frontman. As a member of the Tribe he wrote such classic hits as “Check The Rhyme,” “Bonita Applebum,” “Scenario,” “Award Tour” “Hot Sex,” “Oh My God” “Electric Relaxation” and the current Q-tip hit “Vivrant Thing.” A Tribe Called Quest first grooved…

There’s a new groove chugging up the charts. If “C’Mon Ride It (The Train),” the bumpin’ new single from Quad City Djs, is any indication, “Get On Up And Dance”, their debut full length, is gonna take you on a rhythmic ride you can’t refuse. Quad City Djs is the latest outing by Nathaniel “C.C.…

“We’re the band that comes from nowhere but listens to the whole world and then produces a record,” says Solvi Blondal, the songwriter/producer behind Iceland’s Quarashi (pronounced “kwa-ra’-she”). “We’re not from America, we’re not from Europe, we’re from Reykjavik, a small city in the North Atlantic. It’s probably a good anthropology study: the rappers from…

When Finley Quaye burst onto the British Music scene in 1997 his debut album Maverick A Strike quickly established him as one of the few truly innovative artists around. Providing hits such as Sunday Shining, Even After All and the much lauded Ultra Stimulation EP, Maverick was a groundbreaking record that defined the summer of…

Sultry. Seductive. Insinuating. Knowing. Soulful. Sexy. Womanly. Xscape. On Traces Of My Lipstick, Xscape’s third full-length album on So So Def Recordings, the “million dollar girl group” from Atlanta, Georgia, has created an album that is Xscape’s most mature and provocative to-date, filled with an emotional depth that speaks to the quartet’s growth both as…

There aren’t many rock bands that would return from a seven year hiatus with an orchestral album full of intensely personal songwriting. Then again, XTC have never strived to be like any other band. Over the years, they have gained a fastidiously loyal following by experimenting with idiosyncratic, jagged art-rock, mystical, melodious pop and trenchant,…

After seven years and three albums you’d think you know someone. You’d figure you’ve been checking his rhymes and diving deep into his flow, and would have some insight into his mind. One would think, but when it comes to Xzibit, one would be dead wrong. That’s because on his fourth album MAN VS. MACHINE…

In spite of the appealing name, the Nicetown area of Philadelphia is not a pleasant place to grow up. It’s a dangerous neighborhood full of drugs, gangs and poverty that drains the spirit out of nearly everyone who lives there. Which makes the story behind the Young Gunz moniker all the more astonishing. Despite the…

Are You Passionate?, a collection of eleven new original studio tracks from Neil Young will be released March 26th on Reprise Records. The first studio set from the artist since 2000’s acclaimed Silver & Gold, Are You Passionate? features a wide range of musical styles by Young, an innovator who is considered by many as…