When the Wu-Tang Clan released their landmark 1993 full-length debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), they changed the game in popular music. Its raw, stripped-down production and its masterful lyrics, gracefully traded off among nine larger-than-life rappers, represented a fresh take on the booming genre of hip-hop—no slick studio tricks, no cartoony personalities, just lean-and-mean […]
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Fight hip-hop nostalgia and see DJ Quik because of his new music
The West Coast hip-hop icon plays Subterranean on Friday.
DJ and editor Alex Fruchter on leaving Ruby Hornet to focus on Closed Sessions
The man known as DJ RTC: “Curren$y, he sent me an e-mail, just three words: ‘I’m with you.'”
Gossip Wolf: New blood in Anatomy of Habit
Gossip Wolf: New blood in Anatomy of Habit, a new band from Josh Chicoine of the M’s, and a new mixtape from Alex Wiley
Check out Alex Wiley’s debut mixtape at Jugrnaut tomorrow
The Village rapper celebrates his forthcoming Club Wiley mixtape with a listening party
Goblin goes for the gold
Vintage avant-garde psychedelic horror-movie music goes to the Olympics
Closed Sessions opens up Chicago hip-hop
Local studio to release its third compilation
Breaking News: Cash still ruling everything around us
Thoughts on the financial crisis from the Wu-Tang Clan
A Hornet’s Nest at South by Southwest
Chicago hip-hop blog Ruby Hornet filled an Austin mansion with rappers to make the new comp Closed Sessions: ATX.
Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings include Califone, the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival, the Dismemberment Plan, Nitzer Ebb, Raekwon, the Roots, Mavis Staples, and Tricky.
Kanye and His Weird Circle of Friends Drop New Tracks
An indie folkster, hip-hop’s Queen of Weird, and the biggest tween-pop star in the world walk into a bar . . .
Pitchfork Starts Its Lineup Tease
The Pitchfork Music Festival announced its first group of bands and performers, including Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Raekwon, Pavement, and St. Vincent.
The List: December 3-9, 2009
Critics’ Choices and other notable concerts: The Dutchess & the Duke, Dave Rawlings, Gwar, Priestess, and more