Big Daddy Kane

Power 98.3's Boo Bomb @ Celebrity Theatre

Halloween Guide 2011

DJ Smite Brings Latin and Cumbia-Crunk to Two Las Fiestas Patrias Events

​September 15 marks the celebration of Grito de Dolores one of the five Fiestas Patrias, or national holidays in Mexican history. It's an important day, coming directly before Aniversario de la Independencia, the day Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexi ... More >>

EPMD @ Celebrity Theatre

​September 15 marks the celebration of Grito de Dolores one of the five Fiestas Patrias, or national holidays in Mexican history. It's an important day, coming directly before Aniversario de la Independencia, the day Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexi ... More >>

Mr. Miranda on Arizona Hip-Hop, His Japanese Record Deal, and His Forthcoming EP with Jimmy Nelson

For just pennies a day, you can provide food and shelter for needy Phoenix rappers like Mr. Miranda.​Dave Miranda, aka Mr. Miranda, has been one of the more productive MCs in the Valley recently. The Phoenix native released The Wonderful World of Mr. Miranda in December 2008, then followed that u ... More >>

Rapper Cage’s Depart From Me is Hardly a Rap Album

For just pennies a day, you can provide food and shelter for needy Phoenix rappers like Mr. Miranda.​Dave Miranda, aka Mr. Miranda, has been one of the more productive MCs in the Valley recently. The Phoenix native released The Wonderful World of Mr. Miranda in December 2008, then followed that u ... More >>

Concert Calendar For This Weekend: Bloc Party, Brendan James, The Andre Nickatina Experience, The Aquabats,

Limbeck is scheduled to perform tonight at the Chyro Arts Venue in Scottsdale. If I was an arrogant, self-centered kind of music journalist, I'd probably spend the next 400 or so words detailing all the cool-ass concerts I was planning to check out this weekend, dishing out details in between clev ... More >>

The Old School Jingle Jam Reminds Us of the Ghosts of Hip-Hop’s Past

Limbeck is scheduled to perform tonight at the Chyro Arts Venue in Scottsdale. If I was an arrogant, self-centered kind of music journalist, I'd probably spend the next 400 or so words detailing all the cool-ass concerts I was planning to check out this weekend, dishing out details in between clev ... More >>

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Limbeck is scheduled to perform tonight at the Chyro Arts Venue in Scottsdale. If I was an arrogant, self-centered kind of music journalist, I'd probably spend the next 400 or so words detailing all the cool-ass concerts I was planning to check out this weekend, dishing out details in between clev ... More >>

Behind the Green Door

Kreme and Jett court madness, drunkenness and death runnin' after absinthe's La Fée Verte.

De La Soul

Thugs rap, rap, rapping at the door

A Dethroned Prince

Prince Paul's latest concept record attacks lame commercial hip-hop by co-opting it

Using the Force

Unbound by style or expectation, Afu-Ra tunes in to a whole new vibe

Afu-Ra

Life Force Radio (Koch Records)

'F' Wordsmith

Eminem's new album sparks a heated free-speech debate

Calendar for the week

Eminem's new album sparks a heated free-speech debate

HIP-HOP SITCOM BOOM? BAH!

Eminem's new album sparks a heated free-speech debate