Category: Music

The millennium hip-hop world is all about the pride, the culture, and the experience of the South. As the time ushered in a new age, so did it also ordain southern hip-hop, particularly that of Atlanta, as one of its most fertile breeding grounds for producing crops of prolific rappers. These artists flip a mellifluous…

Already an icon in his native Houston, Texas thanks to his appearance on DJ Screw mix tapes and Lil’ Troy’s anthemic “Wanna Be A Baller” single, the youthful rapper known as Yungstar is poised for a national breakout with the Epic Records release of his debut album, Throwed Yung Playa. In stores February 1st ,…

What this young, talented and immensely creative singer-songwriter is referring to is her amazing music journey, one that culminates on October 7 with the release of her debut EP appropriately entitled EP (Private Music / Arista Associated Labels). Rachael Yamagata’s remarkable odyssey would be difficult to summarize in any other way. How else to explain…

Show Your Bones is what happens when you put your finger in a light socket,” says singer Karen O. “Maybe there is some of that electric current flowing through the tracks of our album illuminating us from the inside out for you to laugh at and cry to or fry to. Or not.” Karen O,…

Year of the Rabbit is Ken Andrews, Tim Dow, Solomon Snyder and Jeff Garber. Everything about Year Of The Rabbit emanates from a muted kind of mystique that zigzags through their unforgettable debut with the deftness of…well…a rabbit. You’ll never get the LA foursome to cough up the reason for the intriguing name, but don’t…

It was a surreal moment to cap off a year of surreal moments for Yellowcard. The Beastie Boys had just announced the winner of the MTV2 Award at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards, and the band was having a difficult time processing what was happening. Violinist Sean Mackin didn’t actually hear their name being…

As kings of the club circuit, the Ying Yang Twins have ridden their zany, cartoonish personas, witty lyrics and Grade-A production to the top of the charts. The Atlanta-based duo of Kaine and D-Roc released in 2003 its acclaimed third album, the platinum Me & My Brother, which spawned the hits “Salt Shaker,” feat. Lil…

Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew — three of independent filmmaking’s mightiest and most uncompromisingly idiosyncratic talents — have again combined their formidable talents to create a unique visual work of enduring strength and beauty.

Everybody wanna know who 50 done signed/ And who he is, what he bout, where he from, can he rhyme/ Is he real, is he fake, is he true, is he lyin’/Did this Young Buck really get shot two times? That you’ve only been hearing about 23 year-old David Young Buck Brown for a little…

Peter Svensson-guitar Magnus Sveningsson-bass Bengt Lagerberg-drums Lasse Johansson-guitar/keyboards Nina Persson-vocals Peter Svensson, the band’s songwriter and musical driving force, exudes calmness and displays a quiet pride when he talks about the forthcoming new album, “Long Gone Before Daylight”. He begins by looking back at the previous album. When the band recorded “Grand Turismo”, there had…