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LET'S DUET

A night of musical collisions

Let's Make Cormega ESPN's New Guest Tweeter For Knicks Games

In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. New York City rap veteran Cormega is currently readying up his latest album, the Large Professor-produced Mega Philosophy. During a quick bout of recording downtime, we got him ... More >>

How to Defend Quentin Tarantino

What critics who attack the director's borrowings miss

Rolling Stone's Top 50 Rap Songs of All Time: Six Alternative Number One Picks

Rolling Stone recently published a run-down of the top 50 hip-hop songs of all time. After consulting with a panel of 33 journalists, industry figures and artists (including professional rap encyclopedia ?uestlove and the remaining members of the Beastie Boys), the numbers were crunched and Grandmas ... More >>

Let Fury Have the Hour

Santigold's Gold Standard

Santi White's genre-bending adventures continue on her second album

Miles Davis (2) And Public Enemy (7) Go At It In SOTC's March Madness

​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. In round one of Sound Of The City's March Madness, jazzmaster Miles Davis dispatched Cyndi Lauper with tonally perfect blo ... More >>

Mariah Carey (10) Battles With Public Enemy (7) In SOTC's Search For The Ultimate New York Musician

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

Bootsy Collins

Facebook + Music: Most People Are DJs

The site's foray into music and the act of performative listening

Geoff Barrow's Sour Rhymes

The member of Portishead excavates his band's hip-hop roots

Every Day I Write: Music-Related Events At This Year's Brooklyn Book Festival

​ At last year's Brooklyn Book Festival, Joshua Clover and Ta-Nehisi Coates argued the relative merits of Roxette's "Listen to Your Heart" and Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." The year before, Ian MacKaye (on a panel with Thurston Moore and Lupe Fiasco) decried the overuse of the phrase "Goog ... More >>

Wax Is For Anthrax: Drummer Charlie Benante On 8 Anthrax Rap Experiments

​The unstoppable, zombie-slaying Anthrax album Worship Music is their first in 21 years with classic vocalist Joey Belladonna, and naturally, it's full of thrash that hearkens back to the halcyon days of Jams shorts and up-flipped caps. However, if rap fans check out "Devil You Know," they mig ... More >>

Longshot Is Giving You 48 Hours to Make a Magazine About Debt...GO!

​Longshot Magazine, the insane attempt to put together a glossy magazine from start to finish in 48 hours over a single weekend (undertaken, obviously, by masochists who don't spend their weeks the same way we do), just announced the theme for their new issue: debt. Per their email a few minu ... More >>

Download: Blitz The Ambassador's Sun-Drenched "Best I Can"

​"It ain't where you from, it's where you at," intones Chuck D himself on the fourth album by rapper/producer Blitz The Ambassador. Blitz is originally from Ghana's capital city of Accra, and currently resides in Brooklyn, but the otherworldly rhythms and triple-speed rhymes of Native Sun (Emb ... More >>

MUSIC TO MY EYES

A visual evolution of the New York sound

The Six Most Decisive Wins In Pazz and Jop History

Not quite​Having spent the last two weeks poring through Pazz & Jop 2010, I've learned everything from the two albums most statistically similar to a bootleg compilation of early Bob Seger (those would be Flockaveli and Ke$ha's Animal/Cannibal combo) to the number of writers who ended their co ... More >>

STRONG ISLAND

A reunion show not to be missed

Live: M.I.A. Encounters (And Conquers!) Further Adversity At Terminal 5

Doing a lot better now, thanks. Pics by Jason Gross, more below.​M.I.A. Terminal 5 Monday, September 27 Better Than: Getting drenched at her last gig. Listen, Maya, if you don't like this review, don't Tweet my cell. You're having a shitty year, but everyone else has, too. Yours is just more ... More >>

Q&A: Brother Ali on Rock the Bells and The Importance of Getting Touched By Ghostface

Cover of Ali's The Truth is Here EP Of the many details that differentiate Brother Ali from your average rapper, it is important to note that after delving deep into the painful dissolution of his emotionally abusive marriage on his 2007 album The Undisputed Truth, Ali wraps things up by telling h ... More >>

FIGHT THE POWER

Public Enemy take over Central Park

'The Bunker 7 Year Anniversary'

Jimmy Eat World Totally Jobbed By The A.V. Club's Otherwise Exemplary "21 Songs About Hating The Radio" List

If only AutoTune had existed back then. Starring Elvis Costello, Public Enemy, the Smiths, Shellac, NOFX, TMBG (!), and R.E.M. The "Alice in Chains are the new Doors" theory (during a discussion about the Dead Kennedys' "Triumph of the Swill") is particularly revelatory. Better sing now while you ... More >>

Week in Review: Humming and Ready to Take Us On a Golden Ride Way Out Somewhere in the Yonder

​In the week we learned to our deep and lasting dismay what a Gummibar is, we counted down the worst songs of the '00s with the newly relocated F2K crew--peruse if you dare but do not blame us when you come in contact with something like "I Am Your Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)," or are ina ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 26: Beastie Boys, "In A World Gone Mad"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Everyone in our generation will never forget where they were when they heard about the greatest tragedy to ever occur on American soil: The Beastie Boys forgot how to rap.

Def Jam at 25

The Yankees of hip-hop labels, reconsidered

De La Soul

Live: The Second Annual Roots Picnic, Featuring Public Enemy, Asher Roth, and a Whole Lot of Excited 16-Year-Olds

Yeah, it was Philly, but so what--SOTC special correspondent Christopher R. Weingarten reports. viaThe Roots, mid-jam The Roots, Public Enemy, Asher Roth, Kid Cudi, TV on the Radio, and More Festival Pier, Philadelphia June 6, 2009 The second annual Roots Picnic, an eclectic fete held on the Illa ... More >>

Status Ain't Hood Does Summer Jam, Again

SUNDAY | 6.1

THE TAKEOVER

Time for Summer Jam

Music

Major-label hip-hop records in burying-best-tracks shocker!

The Dirty Heartbeat of the Golden Age

Reminiscing on the SP-1200, the machine that defined New York hip-hop

The Public Enemy Remix Project's "Bring the Noise" b/w "Give It Up"

Bring on the techno: Chuck D goes delightfully trance

Evil Empire Strikes Back

A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection

Wiggerstock

White lines: A new book examines hip-hop's crossover appeal

Let the Eggplants Fly

In which the new music editor emerges from hiding to get clocked in the head

Radicals of the Moment

Public enemies tricoastal, and that doesn't even count the Balkan guys

'Spin' Sugar

Public Enemy, D.M.C., Lady Sovereign rock Spin magazine's 20th Anniversary party

Repaid in Full

Talking with Brian Coleman, self-published hip-hop author

The Cotton Club

Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

Lowlight Reel

A richness of televisual embarrassments: The annual duds

Varsity Blues: Gridiron Drama Comes Up a Few Yards Short

Sgt. Pooper

Inkblot Integer-Hop

Leaps of Bliss

Join the Good-Fight Club

Bunk

We got your hip-hop hall of fame

Sugar High

French. Revolution.