Rock The Bells
Rock the Bells kicked off its 2009 hip-hop festival tour in Chicago – just two days after Michael Jackson’s sudden death. Chris Catania took in this year’s finest while ruminating on the psychology of a crowd in mourning.
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Bad Brains
Phillip Haire catches up with ground-breaking punk band Bad Brains, with enigmatic front man H.R. on board, at a rare Orlando date.
Jurassic 5
Feedback (Interscope). Review by Chris Catania.
Lollapalooza 2003
What a day for Phillip Haire… Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age, Jurassic 5, The Donnas, The Distillers and others…
Sleater-Kinney
Liza Hearon talks to Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein about women in rock, Eddie Vedder and watching 13-year-olds make out in front of the stage.
Foreign Legion
Playtight (Look). Review by Bill Campbell.
Editor’s Choice: The Top 19 of 2002
Julio Diaz didn’t review as many albums in 2002 as he should have, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t listening. Here are his picks for the year’s best.
Jurassic 5
Power In Numbers (Interscope). Review by Bettie Lou Vegas.
Scapegoat Wax
Swax (Hollywood). Review by Margie Libling.
Being Black
Being Black (Waxploitation / Spun). Review by Bill Campbell.
Dark Leaf
Fuck The People (Ubiquity). Review by Bill Campbell.
Blackalicious
Blazing Arrow (Quannum Projects / MCA). Review by Bill Campbell.
Ozomatli
Embrace The Chaos (Almo Sounds/Interscope). Review by Julio Diaz.
Long Beach Dub Allstars
Wonders of the World (Dreamworks). Review by Phillip Haire.
Dilated Peoples
Expansion Team (Capitol). Review by Bill Campbell.
Roots Manuva
Run Come Save Me (Big Dada/Ninja Tune). Review by Kiran Aditham.
BMF
Sound in the Round (Eighth Dimension/Shadow). Review by Kiran Aditham.
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment 12-inch (Rope-a-Dope/Atlantic). Review by Kiran Aditham.
Los Mocosos
Shades Of Brown (Six Degrees). Review by Terry Eagan.
Jurassic 5
The left coast’s favorite old-school aficionados, Jurassic 5 return with a ne…
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