Mike Ladd

Port Richmond improved to 3-0 with a 54-36 PSAL wrestling victory over host New Utrecht Friday in Brooklyn. Read More

"With material taken from collaborations with people as diverse as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Vijay Iyer, old school African hip- hop legends Zimbabwe Legit, stunning turntablist Rob Swift of the X-ecutioners, political hip-hop from The Coup, The Jungle Brothers, Mike Ladd, and Abdul Smooth from India, DJ Spooky connects the dots between jazz, classical music, and the struggle to create new, dynamic relationships between old school hip hop and the 21st century's rapidly changing info-culture landscape." Read More

Three albums into a stable Foreign Beggars have built from the ground up, United Colours... is a record with too many guest spots to mention that manages to both hold itself together and eventually flourish as it unfurls itself. Read More

Back in 1995 New York's DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller) made himself the face of the so-called illbient scene, a promising movement that styled DJs as sound sculptors just as likely to make use of the incidental noise of vinyl—pops, crackles, hisses, skips—as the actual music contained on it. Read More