Dig That Sweet Sound!

The right pairing of an MC and a producer is one of the things that separates great hip-hop from the rest of the stuff. After three years of...

During my first listen to this record, I was mesmerized by a moment deep in the A-side when Scientist strips away everything but Errol ...

T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou was an eclectic and prolific band from Benin who combined traditional Vodoun rhythms with salsa, funk...

"Because she's self-righteous and she sucks." That's how someone once tried to explain it to me. By "it" I mea...

Moping guitar-rock is rarely something I seek out. Because it's so easy do, and because an audience is so easy to find (people eat thi...

The best dance music has always contained a very specific breed of melancholy, a feeling that stretches toward some kind of... I don'...

It’s been about two decades since Ghostface Killah delivered the opening verse on the Wu-Tang Clan’s classic debut album. The world caugh...

In the past, Aesop Rock’s labyrinthine lyrics (dense with metonymy, synecdoche and tongue-twister internal rhyme) spiked from the headphones...

When Frank Nitt picks up a microphone he sounds like a man hosting a party. It makes sense: He's an MC, and his acronym job description...

If anyone reads this, I apologize for the recent silence. I recently began a new life as a full-time teacher, and I am adjusting. DTSS! wil...