Tupac Shakur

Camp Lo @ Stray Cat Bar & Grill

Rusko @ Marquee Theatre

Kendrick Lamar @ Celebrity Theatre

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it. Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week.

Renaissance Men

Throwback Thursday: TLC

Tupac's hologram appearance at Coachella sparked all sorts of buzz, from the Hologram Tupac Twitter to the exclusive all-hologram Coachella line-up. And sure, it would be pretty rad to see Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, and Bob Marley & the Wailers on the same bill, but Golden ... More >>

Happy Mother's Day: Here Are 10 Excellent Mother's Day Jams

See also: Five Bands/Arists Your Mom Really Doesn't Want You Listening To All right, suckers -- this is it. Mother's Day is Sunday, and there you are, short on cash, unable to buy flowers, unable to take her out to dinner, utterly and completely unprepared to show fitting tribute to the woman who ... More >>

Mathmadix Get Sexy and Discuss Tupac's Hologram Ghost

School is almost out for summer but for the Mathmadix crew, class will still be in session when their long-awaited album, In a Class of our Own, finally drops on April 20. "We've been trying to drop this album for a couple years now and it's been difficult because of real-life-stuff, you know," ra ... More >>

The Future of Holograms at Concerts

See also: Coachella: The Best of Sunday, April 15Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg closed out weekend one of Coachella with a performance that was unquestionably legen-- wait for it --dary. While both rappers and the slew of guest stars were all fantastic, Tupac's hologram stole the show.Chances are that when ... More >>

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman: 10 Songs About the Mail

​By now it's news to no one that the United States Postal Service is in trouble. As detailed by Nick Greene earlier this month at Village Voice's Running Scared, this means print media is in for a punch (you know, while it's down and everything), your bills are going to show up later than they ... More >>

Phoenix Rapper MegaRan Creates 8-Bit Hip-Hop

The Gang’s All Here

The Ten Best Posthumous Albums

​Today, Universal Music Enterprises will re-release a handful of albums by the late Tupac Shakur, including the posthumous album R U still Down? (Remember Me). Originally released in 1997 (a year after Shakur's murder), R U Still Down? was one of the rapper's best-selling albums, going quadruple ... More >>

Tupac Shooter Allegedly Confesses

​The man that shot rapper Tupac Shakur in a 1994 shooting has allegedly come forward, according to Consequence of Sound.Dexter Isaac, who is already an inmate, confessed to the shooting. Isaac's shooting took place two years prior to Tupac's death. Isaac has claimed that he was hired to shoot Tupa ... More >>

PBS Website Hacked, Fake Tupac Story Posted

​One of the most awesome, hilarious, ridiculous hacking pranks has gone down. A group of hackers recently got into PBS' web system and posted an unusual story about deceased rapper Tupac Shakur, according to Yahoo News.The hacker group, which calls itself Lulzsec and the Lulz Boat, posted a fake s ... More >>

June 1 In Blogs: Lili Gomez, What Laura Says, Fattoush, and Joe Arpaio

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Beyonce and Sleigh Bells Collaborate in the Studio

​Diplo says noise pop duo Sleigh Bells have been hitting the studio with Beyonce, according to NME.The producer recently blogged about being in the studio together with the three musicians. Sleigh Bells' album Treats was played for the good people who work for Beyonce, and now they're working on s ... More >>

Cornel West Addresses Hundreds of Pinkos and Hippies at Anti-SB1070 Rally in Phoenix

Elaine MulliganPrinceton professor and lauded lefty author Cornel West brings the funk to North High School on Saturday, October 2.​We're not the only ones to have noticed that progressives, Democrats, and their ilk don't currently have a central charismatic leader whose every utterance is sociopo ... More >>

Brother Ali

Classic Animation Gets the Big Screen Treatment in Chandler

The original pinupImagine a rap war, ala Biggie and Tupac. But it takes place in the 1930s. And instead of being rappers, the two men involved are kiddie film animators. And instead of shooting at each other, they just say mean things about each other behind the other's back.A little less sexy than ... More >>

"Suge" Knight, Famed Rap Producer, Hurt After Scuffle at Scottsdale's W Hotel

  Famed gangsta rap producer "Suge" Knight (right) sure knows how to keep it real. The founder of Death Row Records, former home to legendary rappers Tupac and Snoop Dogg, used his face as a battering ram against another man's fists early this morning during a fight at the W Scottsdale Hot ... More >>

Notorious Makes B.I.G. Just B.L.A.N.D.

The Wisdom of the Metal Gods Vs. The Meditations of Hip-Hop MCs

I just received a book titled Time Flies When You're In a Coma: The Wisdom of the Metal Gods (A Plume Book), a funny little tome filled with lyrical adages from the world of heavy metal music. Edited by Mike Daly (formerly of alt. country band Whiskeytown), the book is divided into four sections: Me ... More >>

Snoop and Diddy headline a cast of stars destined to steal the spotlight from Super Bowl XLII

Brown Power

Say it loud! You're intact and you're proud!

New Times' top DVD picks for the week of October 10

Live After Death

The posthumous Tupac projects keep on comin'

Boxin' the '90s

Collections set it up

Buckshot & 9th Wonder

Chemistry
(Duck Down)

Mariachi Mamas

Mariachi Pasión breaks the mold

Letters

Letters from the week of December 18, 2003

Letters

Letters from the week of December 4, 2003

Holy Crap

Rapper, actor, deity: The life and times of Tupac Shakur

50 Cent

Rapper's celebrity is criminal

Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

Rock Crock

One man travels through the best of what American music magazines offer -- and needs a shower

Various Artists

Constant Elevation (Astralwerks)

Tales From the Crips

Bones goes to the 'hood and digs up every horror cliché it can find

Ice-T

Poetic Justice

After a decade on hip-hop's front lines, Gang Starr is finally reaping the rewards

Who's the Man?

With Suge Knight in prison, onetime receptionist Norris Anderson is now the big man on Death Row

The OD Couple

Gridlock'd's Shakur and Roth kick detox thriller into high gear

Reeling and Dealing

"Suge" Knight is behind bars, Tha Doggfather is on the shelves, and the future of Death Row Records hangs in the balance

Here's Another Letter to the Big 5 Click (et al.):

Letters

Live by the Gun . . .

Tupac Shakur's murder leaves behind a formidable legacy--and disturbing questions

Flashes

HIP-HOP SITCOM BOOM? BAH!

A YEAR INSIDE THE MOTOROLA MESSSINNERS AND VICTIMS--WARRIORS AND REGULATORS

TAKING DEQ TO THE CLEANERSMINORITIES GET STATE'S EAR, DEMAND "ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE"