Artist: Fitz Ambro$e & Ohbliv Album: Zen Vapors Released: September 03, 2013 Condensed vapors from across a couple oceans of sound waves have resulted in this zen little beat stew of a beat tape. Double-chef'd by Cape Breton Island raised, Tokyo-based beat maestro Fitz Ambro$e and Richmond, VA's soul-sonic sound peddler more...
Artist: ILL SUGI Album: Slave of Junk System Released: July 29, 2013 Straight out the crates of Cascades Records in Paris, we just got laced with a pretty little gem by Tokyo beatsmith ILL SUGI. It's called "Slave of Junk System," available for a limited time on cassette and otherwise via digital. For those who may not be hip, SUGI's been praised as one of more...
The 9th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (BHF) returns this week with events to celebrate Hip-Hop music and culture! We’ve got a run-down of all the events going down throughout the borough of Brooklyn. Tickets are for sale now online via eventbrite here or you can pick some up in person at the New Era store located at 9 East 4th Street. BHF’13 more...
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 iHeartcomix, Media Contender and The Echo Presents: Check Yo Ponytail 2 w/ Salva and The Gaslamp Killer! Illustrations by Franki Chan and very special guests! Going down at the Echoplex! The Echoplex is located below The Echo, enter through the alley at 1154 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. Doors open at 8pm. You must be at least 18 more...
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Fusicology and Liquid Sweets hosted a special Hip Hop Live/NYC Edition event that featured heavyweight Hip-hop legend KRS-ONE with reggae musician/rapper, Mad Lion. Resident DJ, Anthony Valadez, and host KG Superstar kept the crowd lifted through the night, transforming the Zanzibar stage into a vibrant and refreshing hip-hop musical more...
The mad scientist of the low end, better known as The Gaslamp Killer, is getting ready to conduct cold fusion once again as he prepares to release his debut full-length album, Breakthrough, on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder Records. The release party for this excursion through extraterrestrial lo-fi funk is going down on Tuesday September 18th at the Mayan Theater in more...
Album: The Yellow Album Artist: Dom Kennedy Released: June 19, 2012 You can catch a contact high through your speakers bumping this shit right here. This is west coast pimping at its finest. You can dip down the 'shaw to it, you can cruise Sunset boulevard with it, you can even rock it in your headphones on the blue line. Just make sure you turn it up loud when more...
Chinatown makes me crave dim sum and fireworks… nah mean? It makes me wanna get my chopstick etiquette on point and crack fortune cookies and shit. You know? Shrimp fried rice.. riiight. You can't ignore the ambiance of the orient in LA's very own little version of Beijing. From the neon pagodas to the stone lions which guard the pavilions, the fung shui is more...
