Rock the Bells

Lauryn Hill reacts to reviews from her Saturday appearance at Rock The Bells in Mountain View (more by Andrew St. Clair)Any music event that pins its hopes on Lauryn Hill — one of the most maddeningly disappointing performers of recent years — is fighting an uphill battle right from the very start…

Mobb Deep at Best Buy Theater (more by Toby Tenenbaum) Rock The Bells have announced their set times for Boston, LA, San Francisco, and for their NYC date on 9/3 at Governors Island…

Evidence is prepping his second solo disc away from Dilated Peoples. Cats & Dogs will be released via Rhymesayers on 9/27. The LP will see him team with names like Slug of Atmosphere, Raekwon, Aloe Blacc (who plays NYC soon), Prodigy, Aesop Rock, Roc Marciano, and others, and features “To Be Continued…

Havoc of Mobb Deep @ the kick-off in LA (more by Graeme Flegenheimer) In addition to initially announced Rock The Bells lineup (Nas playing Illmatic…

The line-up for the ROCK THE BELLS 2011 FESTIVAL SERIES–presented by Boost Mobile in association with GUERILLA UNION and powered by BlackBerry–will feature an array of seminal and up-and-coming hip-hop artists on three stages…

Clipse Nas & Damian Marley at Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Samantha Marble) Distant Relatives Nas & Damian Marley will team up for a summer show in NYC this year just like last…

Okay, so everyone advertised did perform. But it sure was a nail-biter. Lauryn Hill, the eccentric erstwhile Fugee who has mostly stayed out of sight since her lone solo album, 1998’s still-scintillating R&B masterpiece “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” was clearly the lineup’s chief curiosity…

What kind of oldies concert draws a huge audience in its 20s? Rock the Bells, the daylong hip-hop festival that came to Governors Island on Saturday…

“Can’t NOBODY FUCK WITH A TRIBE CALLED QUEST LIVE! ROCK THE BELLS NYC WAS MAGIC!” –Carringtonworld “#np tribe called quest-steve biko(stir it up)…