Rock the Bells: Q-Tip reunites A Tribe Called Quest one last time
No Rock the Bells tour would be official without a godlike headliner at the helm.
By CHRIS FARAONE | July 22, 2008

Beyond therapy

The Wackness looks back in languor
This is the stoner comedy that might make people take adolescence — and getting stoned — seriously again.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 09, 2008

Wu-Tang Wednesdays at Tommy Doyle’s
To be among 100-plus heads who rhyme along when the song asks “Remember when we licked the cream out of Suzy Qs?” induces straight-up euphoria.
By CHRIS FARAONE | June 02, 2008

Pimp and circumstance

Wu-Tang Clan at Harvard University "Yardfest," April 18, 2008
Some 45 minutes into the Wu-Tang Clan’s afternoon performance in Harvard Yard, Raekwon took a moment to describe his audience.
By RICHARD BECK | April 22, 2008

Dance, monkey: Josh Gondelman

We put a comic on the hot seat
She’s an adorable human pod concealing an unidentifiable intergalactic devil-spawn species of peanut.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 18, 2008

Show and tell

A whole new year of live music
After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
By WILL SPITZ | January 04, 2008

Too legit to quit

Wu-Tang Clan and Ghostface Killah
The early word on Wu-Tang Clan’s new 8 Diagrams is that it will rip the group apart at the seams.
By BEN WESTHOFF | December 31, 2007

The top 20 local albums of 2007

Here’s to the cream of a very impressive crop
Whatever you may think of Portland’s live-music scene nowadays — I’d argue it’s improving.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 19, 2007

From ’Ye to mixtapes

Hip-hop: 2007 in review
To get the full taste of where hip-hop is at, you also have to seek out the unofficial releases, the mixtapes, which often have a bigger impact than the official albums.
By BEN WESTHOFF | December 17, 2007

Going on sale: November 9, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Most Serene Republic, Wu-Tang Clan, Spiritualized, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | November 06, 2007

Working girls

Northern State keep their raps real
Northern State’s YouTube video for “Better Already” is a thing of low-budget beauty.
By IAN SANDS | August 14, 2007

Skill ride

Pharoahe Monch’s timely return
All it took was a Godzilla sample and a simple, forceful “Simon says get the fuck up” for Pharoahe Monch to leave his mark on hip-hop history.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER | July 17, 2007

Boston music news: June 15, 2007

Notes on Jim's Big Ego, Campaign for Real-Time, and, um, Mayor Menino
Jim Infantino of Jim's Big Ego is describing The Ego & the Oracle , a show he’s been staging Sundays at Jimmy Tingle’s Off Broadway.
By JIM SULLIVAN | June 12, 2007

Mad scientists

Labseven finally put it all together with North Winds
Successful hip hop is all about braggadocio.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 21, 2006

The 37th chamber

Method Man, Avalon, November 7
It’s one thing when fans go crazy over an artist who’s in town. But when the artists in question are equally mad, it can make for some explosive chemistry. Slideshow: Method Man at Avalon, November 7, 2006
By MATTHEW M. BURKE | November 13, 2006

The Devil’s Rejects

Necronomicon/Dynasty Musik
There aren’t many rap groups whose lyrics are laced with images of holy shrines, rivers flowing with honey, the execution of Joan of Arc, Area 51, and various demented murder scenes.
By MATTHEW M. BURKE | August 29, 2006

Hip-pop redux

Hip-hopped-up hits from Deborah Harry to Gwen Stefani
Nelly Furtado’s not the first pop diva to embark on a lucrative hip-hop detour.
By KEN MICALLEF | June 20, 2006

Brit-hop

An interview with the Streets' Mike Skinner
For all the ink that’s been spilled over him around the world, you’d think Mike Skinner would be a little better known in the US, a country where TomKat’s new bundle of joy trumps suicide bombings on the news and new American idols are minted each and every season, only to be cut down the next.
By CHRIS NELSON | April 27, 2006

Ghost world

Fishscale or no Fishscale , Ghostface gets a lot of pussy
“For those who don't know me, I’m known for using soul music,” Ghostface proclaimed. “I get a lot of pussy for it too.”
By DAVID BOFFA | April 15, 2006

Paper trail

Harpers Ferry teen beat gets thumbs-up; DJ Makka to open hi-end bodega
Whether he’s spinning for trance heads or punk-rock kids, the DJ’s imperative is the same everywhere: “It entails making everyone shake their ass all night long, non-stop,” says Paper’s resident DJ, Eric Marcelino.
By DAVID DAY | April 04, 2006

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