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Cults on Yo Gabba Gabba! and Our Five Other Favorite Musical Guests on Children's Television

​Cults were one of indie music's biggest breakout acts of 2011, landing on several Best of 2011 lists and cementing their spot among the blogosphere's buzz-worthiest bands. But what's an indie-pop group to do between albums? Sing holiday songs on children's television. Our internet friends over ... More >>

Mos Def Challenges BET, Oprah, and Obama to Pay Tribute to Executed Prisoner Troy Davis

Photo by Marta Xochilt Perez​On September 21, 2011, at 11:08 p.m. in Jackson, Georgia, a death row inmate named Troy Davis, convicted 20 years ago for the murder of off-duty Savannah policeman Mark MacPhail, was executed by lethal injection. For decades, though, Davis, his supporters, and many j ... More >>

Atmosphere's MC Slug and Ant Gonna Paint That Shit Gold September 16

Atmosphere's MC Slug knows what to do when life hands you lemons.​The sensitive MC has always been a rare figure in hip-hop. While the early 2000s did see a spike in "politically conscious" backpack rappers like Talib Kweli and Mos Def (both of whom took a page from Common's socio-empathetic rhy ... More >>

Talib Kweli Is Coming to Bardot July 3

via FlickreviewR​Alongside Mos Def, Talib Kweli was Black Star, a duo that created the soundtrack -- via hand-me-down cassette -- to this writer's late-'90s college days. Somehow, their socially conscious, Afrocentric hip-hop totally articulated how we felt as a nerdy, suburban white girl driving ... More >>

O, Miami poetry fest wants to deliver verse to Miami's masses

via FlickreviewR​Alongside Mos Def, Talib Kweli was Black Star, a duo that created the soundtrack -- via hand-me-down cassette -- to this writer's late-'90s college days. Somehow, their socially conscious, Afrocentric hip-hop totally articulated how we felt as a nerdy, suburban white girl driving ... More >>

Nate Dogg, G-Funk's Most Melodic Homie, Dies at 41

​Nate Dogg is a bad motherfucker. And we mean forever, because that's how long his music's gonna live. However, Nate Dogg's human self, Nathaniel Hale, died today after struggling for the last two years with the aftereffects of multiple strokes, which left him halfway paralyzed and unable to breat ... More >>

VV Brown Talks Fashion, Heartbreak, and Rapping Before Tonight's Show at the Bayfront Aphitheater

​VV Brown doesn't take anything lying down. The alternative pop songstress started her career in the music business when she was 18, but abruptly quit when she realized she wasn't getting things done her way. Cue two years later, and she's singing about heartbreaks and bad breakups with the same g ... More >>

Gil Scott-Heron, the Godfather of Rap, sets out to prove the revolution will be televised

​VV Brown doesn't take anything lying down. The alternative pop songstress started her career in the music business when she was 18, but abruptly quit when she realized she wasn't getting things done her way. Cue two years later, and she's singing about heartbreaks and bad breakups with the same g ... More >>

Concert Review: Jay-Z at BankAtlantic Center, February 20

Photo by Sayre BermanClick here to view a slideshow of photos from the show.Jay-ZWith Trey Songz and Young JeezyBankAtlantic Center, SunriseSaturday, February 20, 2010Better Than: Listening to the AutoTuned train-wreck on "We Are the World 25 for Haiti." The Review:Jay-Z's last two appearances ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni was once known as the princess of black poetry, but nowadays she shares the queendom with the likes of Maya Angelou. Bold, forthright and sharp, Giovanni has paved the way for new generations of young black poets, she celebrated hip hop and recognized its power before many of her pe ... More >>

Hip-Hop Fame at South Florida Strip Clubs

Local rappers know the road to stardom is through the champagne room.

Dave Chappelle’s Playing on My Block, My Block

Local rappers know the road to stardom is through the champagne room.

The Shows Go On

Ten good live moments in South Florida this year.

2007 Music Year in Review

It's all in the stars.

The Week in Weird

Sax fiend Kenny G to wed all five members of Agnostic Front!

Snap to It

Comeback kids, rhymin' Limeys, and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006

Weather Underground

The Storm Tour concentrates on consciousness

Uncertain Smile

Peanut Butter Wolf's return is overshadowed by Jay Dee's death

Family Affair

The controversial Bob Marley Festival returns

The Revolution Revisited

Talib Kweli talks about the state of hip-hop

Bum Rap

50 Cent wants to be an actor, but he's not

Rise Up

The urban music community responds to Katrina and the aftermath

Extended Sentence

A convicted pedophile earns his release but can't escape from himself

Nukes in the Florida Room

Film festival in South Beach faces elections head-on

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

Danny Dollars

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

Wake Up!

A year-end rant or rave for the rap music industry

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?

Where the B-Boys Are

Local kids keep it extra clean at the B-Boy Masters Pro-Am

Risky Business

Danny Dominguez won't go with the mass- market hip-hop flow

It's a Hip-Hop World

And thanks to hotshot entrepreneur David Mays, it'll soon be returning to Miami Beach

It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop

It's big pimpin', spendin' G's

The Negro Problem

Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong but ends up wasting ammunition

Exiled in Havana

With the FBI in pursuit, black activist Nehanda Abiodun a decade ago fled to Cuba, where she still dreams of fomenting a socialist revolution in the United States

Blackalicious

Nia (Quannum Projects)

Kulchur

Kids in Exile: Right-winging it

Looking Back on Premillennium Tension

Miami scenesters sound off

To Market, To Market

Where's Marlowe?