I love this WFMU lock groove record so much and not just because that (along with a slew of other FMU DJs including Trent, Brian Turner , and Irwin ) I have some tracks on it. Read More
In the 1950s, Philadelphia was the town you wanted to be in if you were launching a musical career-not Los Angeles, New York or Nashville. Read More
Indie records by Gossip and Atlas Sound were great but just didn't fit. Read More
The second installment of Oh No's series of world music beat tapes, Ethiopium really should've been called Further Exodus Into Unknown Rhythms. Read More
The most significant local albums that shook the music scene in the Noughties. Read More
Basic Channel dude, Vladislav Delay, and NSI's Max Loderbauer merge the lithe, febrile percussion juju of Can's Soon Over Babaluma and Miles Davis's On the Corner with classic streamlined Berlin techno sangfroid. Read More
This month Kurtis Blow is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his debut single, "Christmas Rappin'," the first major label hip-hop release that sold nearly half a million records. Read More