Music Features

PREVIOUS

NEXT

Photos: Public Enemy: 1988-1998

From the Phoenix archives: Public Enemy through the years

By PHOENIX STAFF | August 3, 2010

Photo: Larry Busaca

READ:Still Public Enemy #1. By Chris Faraone.

<< first ...< prev 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | next >... last >>

2 of 16 (results 16)

Still Public Enemy #1
Don't call it a comeback tour. Or a Public Enemy reunion. Even if you snoozed on their last few discs and festival romps across five continents, Chuck D and Flavor Flav have perpetually marched forth in raucous righteousness.
Fresh legends
Nine out of 10 rap legends prefer People Under the Stairs. (The holdout is a crackhead.) That's no joke — in my hundreds of interviews with dudes who brought the noise and funk before the big ship sunk ( circa 1997), California underground heroes Thes One and Double K have been as popular a subject as the exploitation of old-school luminaries.
Photos: Shepard Fairey, Z-Trip, Chuck D at the ICA
Shepard Fairey spins at Obey Experiment REDUX at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston
More

Still Public Enemy #1
Don't call it a comeback tour. Or a Public Enemy reunion. Even if you snoozed on their last few discs and festival romps across five continents, Chuck D and Flavor Flav have perpetually marched forth in raucous righteousness.
Fresh legends
Nine out of 10 rap legends prefer People Under the Stairs. (The holdout is a crackhead.) That's no joke — in my hundreds of interviews with dudes who brought the noise and funk before the big ship sunk ( circa 1997), California underground heroes Thes One and Double K have been as popular a subject as the exploitation of old-school luminaries.
Photos: Shepard Fairey, Z-Trip, Chuck D at the ICA
Shepard Fairey spins at Obey Experiment REDUX at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston
Young Gifted and Black makes responsible rap cool
If you look closely in the 2002 video for Public Enemy's "Gotta Give the Peeps What They Need," you'll see a 13-year-old Jesse Winfrey playing the background.
artist: Tricia Rose, Brown University’s hip-hop scholar, discusses rap’s creative crisis
Some 40 years in, rap is nothing less than a cultural juggernaut. But it has not lost its power to provoke.
T-Model Ford And Gravelroad | Taledragger
An approximately 90-year-old ex-convict has persuaded hipsters everywhere to pretend to give a fuck about Mississippi blues, and that’s not even the most interesting thing about T-Model Ford.
Tennis | Cape Dory
Cape Dory is a debut swathed in love-struck naiveté.
Tapes ’N Tapes | Outside
Disentangling themselves from larger-label involvement seems to have lightened some of the load on this highly touted blog-band forerunner’s shoulders.
British Sea Power | Valhalla Dancehall
It sounds as if British Sea Power were determined to shrug off those turn-of-the-millennia comparisons to Joy Division by making things harder, faster, stronger. But is it better?
The historical strum of Bert Jansch
There was a time not too long ago when British folk-music titan Bert Jansch would have been remembered mostly as a footnote in pimple-faced Led Zeppelin mythology.
Gift Guide 2010: Books that'll make your coffee table look smart
There are books, and then there are deluxe books. They're like normal books, but more badass.
Less

Topics: Music Features , Entertainment , Music , Flavor Flav , More

| More

Add Comment

HTML Prohibited

Featured Articles in Music Features:

The circular splendor of My Morning Jacket

The young punk blood of Denmark's Iceage

Nicole Atkins finds peace in her darkness

Mornin' Old Sport launch our pop-up video series with jazz-inspired '20s country

Kool Keith had a purple keyboard and green synth

The schizoid stronghold of Iwrestledabearonce

ARTICLES BY PHOENIX STAFF

NEED WEEKEND PLANS? | August 12, 2011
Check out our event listings and Editor's Picks

THE 15 MOST APE-FRIENDLY GRUBS IN THE HUB | August 04, 2011
Here's a guide to monkey-themed foods available about town.

A FAMILY TREE OF MONKEY MOVIES | August 04, 2011
Watch how monkey movies have evolved, from Tarzan of the Apes to Rise of the Planet of the Apes .

SLIDESHOW: ''PAINTING THE AMERICAN VISION'' AT THE PEABODY ESSEX; ''SHIFTING TERRAIN: LANDSCAPE VIDEO'' AT THE CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART | August 02, 2011
This slideshow of images from "Painting the American Vision" at the Peabody Essex Museum and "Shifting Terrain: Landscape Video" at the Currier Museum of Art accompanies Greg Cook's review of both exhibits, "Painting — and video — of the American landscape."

SLIDESHOW: ''EVA HESSE STUDIOWORK'' AT THE ICA; TORY FAIR'S ''TESTING A WORLD VIEW (AGAIN)'' AT THE DECORDOVA | July 26, 2011
This slideshow accompanies Greg Cook's review of "Eva Hesse Studiowork" at the ICA through October 10, 2011, and Tory Fair's “Testing a World View (Again)" at the deCordova Sculpture Park through April 29, 2012.

See all articles by: PHOENIX STAFF

LATEST SLIDESHOWS

Photos: Quilty + Girlfriends + Curmudgeon + Bil Nils at the Ladyfest Fundraiser

Photos: One Night in Boston 2011

All Slideshows