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The elders will preach respect, but when beef is the most lucrative thing this side of Beats by Dre headphones, and a dis MP3 leaked to the right blogs is an easy way to turn...
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In their early days, European indie duo M83 looked back to shoegaze, with Anthony Gonzalez's vocals lying in a feathery bed of guitars and keys. Now closer to a solo project,...
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In 2006, Don Omar's King of Kings took reggaeton higher up on the American pop charts than it had been before. Six years later, the former preacher from San Juan is going as...
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Over the past few months, Shortcuts has emerged as one of the most exciting new parties in the city: Thrown by Truth Panther Sounds head honcho Dean Bein and rappers Heems and...
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When Walt Whitman wrote the poem that the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival takes its name from, the ferry served as the main means of transportation between inner city and...
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With "Need You Now," Nashville trio Lady Antebellum crossed over from country radio to Top 40; they even got the Glee treatment as the song climbed a variety of Billboard...
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Andrew Bird, so the press release goes, is a classically trained violinist (do they train violinists in anything but?) who turned his back on the conservatory in order to make...
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First there were a couple of songs uploaded to a Tumblr. Then a Drake co-sign, then a hazy Xanax hangover of a mixtape, House of Balloons, one of the best r&b records of the...
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With their "History of Hip-Hop" series, the Rub mixed together the hottest rap songs of each year from 1979 to 2009 and blended three decades of lost gems and unforgettable...
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Most know Mystikal from 2000—the year when his "Shake That Ass" followed Juvenile's "Back That Azz Up" on the charts and out of the speakers at clubs, parties, and...
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On the surface, an odd matchup: What does punk rock have in common with moombahton, the dance subgenre that Dave Nada accidentally invented when he slowed club records (like...
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In 2009, two EPs—the first self-titled, the second Of Light—primed Planet Earth for Shabazz Palaces, an interstellar avant-rap duo led by Ishmael Butler, the man...
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Last January, Big Baby Gandhi took to Vimeo, uploading a four-minute freestyle that, according to the video's title, proved him to be "the best rapper" full stop. And while...
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With his five Cash Money records, Juvenile established himself as one of the best ever to do it, finishing Mannie Fresh beats with inventive flows that brought azzes to the...
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Nine years ago, the Unsound Festival ambitiously attempted to bring together artists on the cutting edge of various genres—everything from drone metal to...
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Esperanza Spalding's large ensemble r&b/soul/jazz fusion isn't the most offensive music out there, but that didn't protect her from the fury of a thousand teenagers scorned...
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For the last 15 years, DJ Rekha’s Basement Bhangra party has exposed the city to the South Asian dance music and in turn exposed artists such as Punjabi MC and M.I.A. to...
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More than 40 years ago, Kraftwerk, a German electronic group based around Florian Schneider, Ralf Hütter, and a revolving door of fellow musicians, began recording music...
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Lil B the rapper made his debut in 2006, kicking off the first verse of "Vans," his teenybopping rap group's proto-jerk ode to the hottest skate shoes in Oakland. Still, Lil B...
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Over the past few months, the work of Junior Vasquez, the New York–based DJ/producer whose music has been moving bodies since the early ’80s, has received an...
