When Walter Ramsey was only a child, he saw the Rebirth Brass Band, a terrific New Orleans group that's practically a Big Easy institution, perform at his middle school. Right then and there, Ramsey, ...

Like any great musical or silent film, if you take your eyes off “Beat Street,” you won't know the whole the story. The groundbreaking 1984 classic is scheduled to screen Friday and Saturday at Athens ...

Hip-hop is no stranger to references about drugs and alcohol; as a matter of fact, just about every genre of music references it in some way. One Delaware rapper has decided to combine hip-hop and ...

“Rip to the greatest hip hop producer of all times…. Larry Smith. Produced my biggest and most significant hits.” – Rev Run He was a musician. Even today, you have beat makers and producers who are ...

Though the duo of MC and DJ complement one another’s abilities, upon further inspection, they basically use different methods ...

Gregary Griffin knows how to adapt. And he knows good advice when he hears it. "I was born in Houston and raised in West Palm Beach, Fla. When I was 16, we moved to San Antonio," Griffin said. "At ...

It’s a little past 11 o’clock on Friday and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is pulsing with sound, lights and bodies. Polyester jellyfish and gigantic LED mushrooms hover above the crowd; the smell of ...

In 2015, the Miltown Beat Down, but the popular local music blog Breaking & Entering hopes to bring the beat back with a spiritual successor to the hip-hop showcase: the inaugural Big Beat MKE, ...