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Ten Black Pop Stars Who Should Go Country

Editor's note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle, celebrating that city's favorite musical genre: mainstream country. With the nation's major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection appeal from the nation's first bla ... More >>

The Weird World of Blowfly at O Cinema September 29 to October 2

Seein Is Believing

Can a socially conscious MC make it in the bling-drunk world of Miami rap? One man aims to find out

Tomorrow's Yesterday

Miami's fastest-rising hip-hop MC can't forget his past

Rise Up

The urban music community responds to Katrina and the aftermath

Work It Out

Fifteen years down the line, De La Soul is still shining, still grinding

Bush Bash

With Slam Bush, the hip-hop generation descends on a hurricane-plagued swing state

Letters from the Issue of March 18, 2004

Civic demons, bad dentistry, and hip-hop culture crash

The Natives Are Restless

Can you feel the bass?

Austin Chronicles

Tales from the Texas music fest: Rock barely survives, honky-tonk rules, and Miami may yet host the Latin Grammys -- but no bombs, please

Mix & Remix

Welcome to Miami Beach's annual Winter Music Conference, where the elite meet to discuss the future of the beat

Fast Humans

The Roots get experimental

Hip-Hop's Clown Heavy

Kool Keith, crazy like a fox

Calypso Carnival

Brash and bawdy, playful and provocative, an exotic art form gets a local showcase the Miami Calypso Show

A Dirty Business

Sex & Cars & Rock & Roll

I entered the Rolling Stone Rock & Roll Bowl on a whim. How'd I do? Just call me Johnny Ca$h.

Program Notes

Home Grown

Spring's sprung, so it's time for our critics to reap and sow the good and not-so-good of local recordings