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Breaking Bad

The Blunt Club's 10th Anniversary @ Yucca Tap Room and Hollywood Alley

A Hot Ghetto Mess of Hip-Hop, Art, and B-Boys: The 10-Year Journey of The Blunt Club

See also: Tempe's Wet Paint Artist Supply to Close in July If Adam Dumper is feeling a little melancholy right now, there's a good reason. This week has a bit of a "best of times/worst of times" vibe for the local hip-hop impresario and street artist, who's better known by his alter ego Dumperfoo. ... More >>

10 Record Store Day Exclusives You'll Have to Fight Me For

It's almost here: Record Store Day. The day the industry bands together and does its best to shine a light on the independent record stores that dot neighborhoods in cities all over the U.S. Now, I could take this opportunity to lecture about how music fans should treat normal days like Record Store ... More >>

DJ Drama @ Club Trinity

Pride vs. Power

Caucasian hip-hoppers are celebraters, not haters

Back to Afrika

Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

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Afrika Bambaataa Visits Bar Smith's Pinky Ring on April 22

The Godfather himself, Afrika Bambaataa. Bar Smith's Wednesday night electro affair Pinky Ring has featured a bangin' array of guest DJs over the past six months (including local hero Z-Trip). And now the organizers behind PR are about to add another big name to the list: Afrika Bambaataa. The ... More >>

Afrika Unite

Hip-hop legend puts the PHX on the good foot

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

Goldie

Tag, he's it

Pride vs. Power

Caucasian hip-hoppers are celebraters, not haters

Bring the Noise (Back)

Tommy Boy's founder reclaims history from hip-hop's dustbin

Spank Rock

YoYoYoYoYo
(Big Dada)

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

Tasty Tuesday

Our naughty nightcrawlers hang with DJ Fashen at Next and wolf down a club-full of Sugar

Sunday, Phunky Sunday

P-town's Whitney & Bobby get flashed, mooned and bent at Bruno Mali's Muck Fondays

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Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light
(Tommy Boy)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Jason Moran

Bandwagon (Blue Note)

Straddling the Fence

Ming & FS are equal-opportunity offenders, tossing curves at house lovers and hip-hop heads alike

Letters

Letters from the week of January 16, 2003

Robot Wars

A thriving Arizona break-dancing culture rediscovers the state's grandmasters of boogaloo

Critics Vs 2002

The Year's Best in Movies, TV and Music

Jam Master Jay: 1965-2002

Hip-hop has lost greats before, but this murder is different, as a Houston DJ expresses

Dancehall Crasher

Hip-hop may have forgotten its debt to him, but reggae toaster Yellowman still knows he's king

Vinyl Fetish

Scratch reveals the power of two turntables, minus the microphone

Nathaniel Merriweather

LOVAGE -- Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (75 Ark)

Nothing but Love

Things are looking up for Southern California electro-break pioneer Überzone

Best Dance Club

Club Freedom

Hot Stuff

From street graffiti to body rocking, the Arsonists preserve the old-school arts

Open to All

Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

Stop Making Sense

DJ Logic experiments with hiphop, rock and all that jazz

Bomb's Away

The next chapter(s) for DJ Radar

Recordings

Kings of Rhyme

Run-D.M.C. keeps pushing to earn respectability for hip-hop

Tomorrow Never Knows

With its recent U.S. tour, Kraftwerk stakes its claim as the most important group since The Beatles

Outer Bass

Bill Laswell is a deep-groove guerrilla who's not afraid to lay down the bottom line

Recordings