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Lupe Fiasco: A Progress Report

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Lupe Fiasco

Real World Brooklyn, Episode 9: Katelynn Has To Stick Things Inside Her Vag, Chet Auditions for MTV VJ Slot

Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, J.D. threw a tantrum. This week, Chet gets his make-up did! MTVSays Chet: "I feel like I'm a celebrity in my own mind, and that's a good feeling." Retch. Something weird happened this week while I was watch ... More >>

How Life Isn’t Anymore

Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, J.D. threw a tantrum. This week, Chet gets his make-up did! MTVSays Chet: "I feel like I'm a celebrity in my own mind, and that's a good feeling." Retch. Something weird happened this week while I was watch ... More >>

Tori’s Got a Gun

Every week, Sharon Steel watches the Real World Brooklyn so nobody else has to. Last week, J.D. threw a tantrum. This week, Chet gets his make-up did! MTVSays Chet: "I feel like I'm a celebrity in my own mind, and that's a good feeling." Retch. Something weird happened this week while I was watch ... More >>

Both Sides Now

From the underground to the chart tops, Just Blaze aims to save New York hip-hop

It's Over

From the underground to the chart tops, Just Blaze aims to save New York hip-hop

Queen of Pop

From the underground to the chart tops, Just Blaze aims to save New York hip-hop

View Finders

The Season’s Best Photo Books

Take This

The Season’s Best Photo Books

The Surreal Deal

The Season’s Best Photo Books

Letters

The Season’s Best Photo Books

Microtones and Bebop

Joe Maneri Turns 75; Nick Brignola 1936–2002

'Vice' Squad

Joe Maneri Turns 75; Nick Brignola 1936–2002

Vice Bust

Kicking the Jackass of the Magazine World

The Big Chill

Brats and Boomers Dominate Sundance Docs

Undermine Your Own Business

EMI cleans house, Elektra merges, Arista folds, what's left?

Film

EMI cleans house, Elektra merges, Arista folds, what's left?

Pirates of the Caribbean

Record execs hoist soca as the island flavor of the season

Magical Musical Piss House

CBGB regular Jesse Malin remembers the late Hilly Kristal

Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 Gets a Release Date: September 11

On September 11, 2001, Jay-Z released The Blueprint, his sixth studio album and arguably his best--arguably being the key word, as this is the guy who also made Reasonable Doubt. Anyway now, eight years later--and six after Blueprint 2, Jay's not-nearly-as-good follow-up--the long-rumored Blueprint ... More >>

Fat Joe vs. the Volcano

He's joined forces with the South, whether you like it or not

Dan Kennedy's Gonna Scrawl

Led Zep buff joins music biz, gawks, writes memoir

Signifying Something

Second album shows brothers not quite workin' it out

Party Out Of Bounds

A new documentary digs up a forgotten post-punk TV classic and a lost cultural moment

'Trouble and Bass'

A new documentary digs up a forgotten post-punk TV classic and a lost cultural moment

Who Is Fabolous?

On a constantly-on-the-brink Brooklyn rapper and perils of undersharing

Willy DeVille, 1950-2009

Punk rock soul man Willy DeVille has died of pancreatic cancer in New York at the age of 59. Though his band Mink DevIlle was more bluesy, swinging and sometimes Springsteenesque than most of the groups that congregated at CBGB back in the glory days, he fit comfortably amid its grunge, and glitte ... More >>

Live: Even Lou Reed Gets Sentimental At Rock Hall MSG Blowout #2 (Featuring U2, The Boss, The Black Eyed Peas, And Some Dude Named Mick)

Ooooh plus "Iron Man" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Friday, October 30 "When we were down, rock 'n' roll lifted us up," says Tom Hanks in his introductory remarks for the final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's benefit-concert extravaganza ... More >>

Little Brother's Retirement Party

Yes, these hip-hop shape-shifters are breaking up. Don't get sentimental about it.

'GRUNGE' THIS

The mighty Melvins live on

Damon Dash Resurrected

Cast out of Jay-Z's kingdom, a notorious hip-hop mogul takes a kinder, gentler, hipper approach to reinvention

The Ten Most Exploitative Posthumous Rap Projects

​Being a dead rap artist isn't much fun. Whether The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, or J Dilla, death has never seemed to do much to alleviate the constant pressure on artists to muster up new recordings to satisfy the bulging posthumous rap retail market. (In the hip-hop world, possessing a heart t ... More >>

Introducing Fiasco Friday, A Quixotic Plan to Picket the Offices of Atlantic Records In the Name of Lupe Fiasco

As far back as 2007, Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco was threatening to quit music and telling us, "The entity of recorded music really sucks, it's really wack, especially when you're doing it through a major. It's like, you don't make any money unless you sell tons and tons of records. And I'm not sel ... More >>

Meet the Surprisingly Young Guy Who Is Organizing Lupe Fiasco's Protest Against Atlantic Records

Won't somebody please liberate this record?​Matthew La Corte is a 17-year-old rap fan from West Paterson, New Jersey. Specifically, Matthew's a fan of Lupe Fiasco, the bright, tortured, socially-conscious Chicago rapper whose third album, Lasers, has been infinitely delayed by his record label ... More >>

Week In Review: Kill Harvilla, But Get Belly To Reunite First

​It was the week White America lost its mind, as did the guy who wrote a song called "Kill Harvilla" and sent us both the lyrics (not bad) and the instrumental MP3 (very bad). But we here at SOTC prefer more constructive exercises, like listing every '90s band that hasn't reunited yet. A lot o ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco's Lasers Has A Release Date

​So Atlantic Records has been sitting on Lupe Fiasco's new record, Lasers, for a couple years now, an untenable state of affairs given that "he's really much more than just a rapper from Chicago -- he represents a generation, and a movement," as it was explained to us last week by the guy plan ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco's #FiascoFriday March on Atlantic Records Is Underway, Right Now

Fiasco Friday, undeterred by the weather. All photos via LupE.N.D.​The official start time for Fiasco Friday, the coordinated march of Lupe Fiasco fans (and, allegedly, Lupe Fiasco himself) on the New York and Chicago offices of Atlantic Records in protest of their long-standing (and now remed ... More >>

Week in Review: Apollo Kids

​In the week one of this blog's authors inspired a short play about juggalo zombies and Lady Gaga, we celebrated by announcing the 2010 Village Voice/Redeye Distribution Day Party, featuring the great Marnie Stern, Hooray For Earth, and a bunch of others, including a wonderful special secret g ... More >>

Q&A Part 1: Harlem Rapper Donny Goines On The Life And Death Of Producer Disco D

"He told me, 'Donny, don't make music for others, make it for yourself.'"​Saturday marks four years since producer David "Disco D" Shayman took his own life in the basement of his parents' house. Disco's D's public legacy is defined by his involvement in the ghetto-tech scene, allegiances with ... More >>

Q&A Part 2: Donny Goines Remembers Disco D

​This is part two of our interview with Harlem rapper Donny Goines, commemorating the four-year anniversary of the suicide of friend and cohort Disco D (left), the producer behind beats for 50 Cent, Trick Daddy, Nina Sky, Kevin Federline (!), and others. Here's part one; for more, read our 200 ... More >>

The Seven-Year War of Saigon

New York's longest-suffering rapper finally has a debut album

Why Wiz Khalifa Isn't Snoop Dogg

A big man on campus, with a mainstream profile, but the music is another matter

The Melvins' Power Disinfectant

How their sludgy 1992 album Lysol became the blueprint for the metal underground

Alvin Moore Becomes Second Idiot to Overestimate David Letterman's Power

​For the second time this week, someone looking for attention chose to vandalize the Ed Sullivan Theater, home of the Late Show With David Letterman. Alvin Moore, the latest aggressor, was drunk and mad because he sent Letterman "several demo tapes," NBC NY reports, but had not heard back. Pol ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco

​For the second time this week, someone looking for attention chose to vandalize the Ed Sullivan Theater, home of the Late Show With David Letterman. Alvin Moore, the latest aggressor, was drunk and mad because he sent Letterman "several demo tapes," NBC NY reports, but had not heard back. Pol ... More >>