Peanut Butter Wolf

If you don't like Peanut Butter Wolf's beats from the early 90's, neither does he. Read More

Derek B, one of the UK's first hip-hop stars and the first British rapper to appear on Top of the Pops, has died of a heart attack. Read More

Like many genres and sub-genres out there at the moment, hip-hop continues to move through changes, stretches and amalgamations of sounds. Read More

If the internet hadn't been invented and people still bought albums based on the label it was released on, regardless of whether they'd heard it or not, then Mayer Hawthorne's debut record would no doubt have shocked many Stones Throw fans. Read More

He says the songs have fewer "catchy points" than his previous release, "Audition." Read More

I was going to save this and work it into next week's OSM, but I thought it was too awesome to save (and who knows, it might still be OSM'd), but Stone's Throw head honcho Peanut Butter Wolf has released 45 Live , a set of classic hip hop 45's he re-edited himself. Read More

Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the ... (more) car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region provided. Read More

Hip-hop producer, DJ and founder Stones Throw Records, Peanut Butter Wolf, sits down with KarmaLoopTV's Red Foxx in LA to discuss Micheal Jackson Tributes, working with Gary Wilson and DJ-ing to video. Read More

Ann Arbor, MI native Andrew Cohen had been earning his bona fides on the deejay scene for nearly a decade before stepping into his Los Angeles bedroom last year and recording A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw) under the name Mayer Hawthorne . Read More

This Friday night, 9/25, at darkroom bar , KEXP's monthly Equalizer Chicago showcase packs soul bands, hip-hop artists and local DJs into an overall dance party line-up. Read More