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IN-DEPTH SOURCE SALE REPORT
Although it has been considered an urban industry sellout for several years, The Source is literally for sale. The hip-hop communications empire’s founder and CEO/publisher David Mays wants $100 million for Source Enterprises Read More »
DMC/TECHNICS CHICAGOLAND REGIONALS
A carrot-topped New England DJ-turntablist took first place Saturday in the DMC/Technics Regional competition for Chicagoland at Metro, while Northeastern Illinoisans won the two runner-up slots. After delivering a 6-minute set that included Read More »
COCOA BROVAZ POST HIP-HOP SUMMIT REFLECTIONS
Although last month’s Hip-Hop Summit organized by hip-hop industrialist Russell Simmons in New York City has tentatively received high marks for its initiatives, Da Cocoa Brovaz are giving the gathering an incomplete. During Read More »
PROPOSED EMINEM AUSSIE BAN STORY
Australia’s latter 20th-century tolerance has taken a dip toward Eminem’s plans to perform in the Pacific island nation, with a conservative member of the Australian parliament and an ecumenical family advocacy organization lobbying Read More »
MORE HARDHITTING MOBFEST UPDATE
In its five years as one of Chicagoland’s longest existing music conferences, MOBfest (the “MOB” for “Music Over Business”) struck some major blows this year for genres that were not dominated by the Read More »
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD CONCERT REVIEW
Back in the mid- to latter 1990s when Michael Franti had shed the angry-young-manliness of his Beatnigs and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy periods, his politically charged, performance art mic-controlling of the more laidback Read More »
CHICAGO CONCERT OF BOSTON, WEST COAST, MIDWESTERN ACTS
Despite lingering presumptions that Roxbury’s Edo G. was with Da Bulldogs and not the other way around, the Boston mic-controller incontrovertibly proved Friday at heavily billed concert at Bucktown’s Congress Theater that his Read More »
LOS MARIJUANO NAME-JACKING
Chicagoland’s premier chicano rap group Los Marijuanos has enjoyed a close relationship with its Los Angeles area contemporaries in the Cypress Hill camp for several years dating back to the late 1990s. Cypress Read More »
Haymarket Riot
Hooking up media and clubs promotions and amusements for Boston acts Edo G., The Kreators, and Last Word, Oakland, Calif. and Hieroglyphics’ Souls of Mischief, and Chicagoland’s own Bronx and San Fernando Valley Read More »
