Loaf Muzik

The Astoria, Queens festival starts today and includes a stacked lineup of live hip hop concerts, plus conferences, arcades, an emcee competition, live interviews, comedy, and more.

Tonight’s NYC shows include two different Other Music farewell parties, St. Vincent, Title Fight, FLAG, Bill Callahan, the XXL Freshmen show, and more.

NYC rapper Le1f is going on an extensive tour of the US and Canada this year that kicks off in Vancouver on March 1 and ends in Baltimore in mid-April, with plenty in betw…

NYC rap crew Loaf Muzik (aka Oso Dope, Shine Sinatra, Shadow the Great and Kidaf) played the BrooklynVegan-curated Red Bull Sound Select show with Vince Staples back in August, and now they’re the latest group to release a track for RBSS’ series of collaborative sing…

There’s always a good amount of hip hop shows happening in and around NYC, but we don’t get a chance to post about all of it. Here’s a roundup of some cool stuff coming up that we haven’t talked about yet, new music, and more: Hot 97 is throwing a holiday show at Newark’s Prudential Center on December 5 that’s pretty stacked with both the old and the new: Busta Rhymes, Mar…

Like last year, Red Bull Sound Select is throwing 30 days of concerts in LA for the entire month of November. Artists playing include TV on the Radio, Grimes, Sylvan Esso, Joey Bada$$, Toro y Moi, Tinashe, Vince Staples, Big Sean, Kaytranada, iLoveMakonnen, Foals, Kiesza, Chromeo an…

“This song is dedicated to my n— Cornel West. He’s locked up right now,” said Staples, before asking the Brooklyn crowd to raise their hands in the gesture linked to the Black Lives Matter movement…

Vince Staples put out one of our favorite rap albums of the year with Summertime ’06, so we’re thrilled to announce that we got him to come all the way from California to headline the next BrooklynVegan-curated installment of Red Bull Sound Select in …

After weeks of will-he-or-won’t-he speculation, enigmatic R&B recluse D’Angelo made good on his promise to headline the 2014 Afropunk festival in Brooklyn on Sunday night…

Bad Brains at DeLuna Fest 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) As discussed, the free 2014 AfroPunk Festival is going down in Brooklyn’s Commodore Barry Park from August 23…