Ryan Brown

When we think of bikers, most of us imagine burly guys with tattoos and beards who don’t take no crap off-a nobody! And if some loser knocks over one of their bikes, which in turn knocks over all the bikes in a Pee-wee Herman dominolike fashion, you better believe he’s...

Do you have rhymes as tight as hell but no props whatsoever because you don’t have a record contract? And don’t even start with all that putting-together-the-making-of DVD stuff that’s supposed to come with the album. Frustrated? Thinking about hanging up your ice? Disc Makers, the nation’s leading independent media...

Roy Haynes, born in Boston in 1925, is one of the most recorded jazz drummers in history and has been a major name in the jazz world for half a century. His early work was with the Sabby Lewis big band, Frankie Newton, and Luis Russell in the late Forties...

The talented Argentine interpretive pianist Marcela Martinez will have her hands full as she presents the American musical debut of the work of Cuban composer Ramiro Valdés Puentes, who was born in Havana in 1963. Martinez will introduce audiences to Valdés Puentes's "Sonata Americana" and will also perform other pieces,...

DJ Vadim, the Russian turntablist who's part DJ Krush, part DJ Shadow, and all musical revolutionary, has teamed up with the amazing New York MC Blu Rum 13 and Yarah Bravo, the petite Swedish-born Chilean/Brazilian MC/songstress whose smooth lyricism can be compared only to that of the great female rapper...