Afrika Bambaataa
Fun Fun Fun Fest announce 2015 lineup!
Fun Fun Fun Fest happens November 6-8 at Auditorium Shores and the amazing lineup is now announced! Check it out here and get your ticket…
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony playing 'E. 1999 Eternal' on tour, will play Ice-T's new festival, sang "Crossroads" for Blake Griffin
Cleveland hip hop vets Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have been playing their 1995 sophomore album, E. 1999 Eternal, in full on tour this year, and that tour’s recently been expanded into the summer…
Roots Picnic 2015 lineup (Erykah Badu, The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky, Phantogram, Rae Sremmurd, DJ Windows 98, more)
The annual Roots Picnic will return to Philly’s Festival Pier on May 30 and this year’s lineup was announced today, via Billboard. In addition to The Roots’ own set, they’ll back Erykah Badu for her set, and it also includes The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky, Phantogram, Rae Sremmurd, Afrika Bambaataa, Hudson Mohawke, DJ Windows 98 (aka Arcade Fire’s Win Butler), Bishop Nehru, Raury, DJ Mustard…
What's going on Thursday? (Sleater-Kinney, Swans, This Will Destroy You, Gaslight Anthem, John Reis, Seoul & more)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…
Sleater-Kinney, Lizzo @ Terminal 5
Sleater-Kinney aren’t on some nostalgia reunion — they’re picking up right where they left off with a killer new record and this is tour is as much about that as it is about old favorites…
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist DJ'd from Afrika Bambaataa's collection at 2 NYC shows w/ Edan & Paten Locke (pics)
that went under the needle during Shadow and Chemist’s propulsive 90-minute spree of old-school breakbeats and frenetic scratches, the disc came from Bambaataa’s fabled 42,000-piece record collection…
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist expand "Renegades of Rhythm" tour, add second Irving Plaza show (updated dates)
As mentioned, turntablists DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist will soon be out on the “Renegades of Rhythm” tour where they’ll be DJing exclusively from Afrika Bambaataa‘s personal vinyl collection…
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist using Afrika Bambaataa's personal vinyl collection for "Renegades of Rhythm Tour" (dates)
DJ Shadow @ McCarren Pool, 2008 (more by Zach Dilgard)
DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist have announced the Renegades of Rhythm Tour, marking the latest in a series of several tours the two have done together…
hip hop roundup: M.I.A. (win tix), World's Fair, Tree, Mobb Deep, Jim Jones, Blackalicious, Homeboy Sandman & more
World’s Fair at MHOW in August (more by Maclyn Bean)
As always, there’s a number of good hip hop shows coming up in NYC, and here’s a few of those…
Egyptian Lover performing in NYC (with Big Freedia who is touring with for the Postal Service!?)
Greg Broussard, better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover, is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was an important part of the L…
Red Bull Music Academy reveals full NYC lineup (Oneohtrix, Lee Perry, Andy Stott, Laurel Halo, Skream, Le1f, Young Chop, Big Freedia, Pantha Du Prince, Congos/Sun Araw, more)
As mentioned, tickets went on sale today for the previously announced Red Bull Music Academy events, which take over NYC from April 28 to May 31…
