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South Bronx

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    The Dance-Punk Pioneers of ESG Are Calling It Quits: Their Journey Through the Bronx, the Haçienda, Paradise Garage, and S.F.

    It's 2006, electroclash is on its last legs, and Mezzanine is just three years settled into its locale on Jessie street. The buzzword on everyone's lips is no wave, a rediscovered genre of art music from '80s New York that plays with the form and structure of punk, disco, and hip-hop. Looking to cap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Veteran Rappers: Do You Really Need to Continue Making New Records?

    There was a time, back in the late '80s, when the legendary Bronx rapper KRS-One was a candidate for the title of Greatest Rapper of All Time. Twenty-five years later, though, the self-anointed Blastmaster's latest long-player, The B.D.P. Album, suggests that compulsory retirement from the recording ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Cormega Gets Crowd Moving at First-Ever Bay Area Show

    ​Cormega June 17, 2010 The Rockit Room Better Than: South Bronx. South, South Bronx. The latest in Sellassie's on-going hip-hop series We All We Got brought Cormega to the Richmond District for his first Bay Area appearance ever. Rockit Room's upstairs venue was a fragrant hotbox stuffed with par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Last Night: Echo Party featuring Edan and Ricky Powell

    L-R Ricky Powell, DJ Centipede, Edan​Echo Party featuring Edan and Ricky Powell Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 SOM Better Than: Sitting home stoned, drawing cartoons and blasting beats while you watch Lost with the sound down. Too few music fans see hip-hop as a cultural phenomenon of DIY media and craf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Doin' It in the Park This Sunday

    DJ Apollo​Free parties in the park are a hallowed hip-hop tradition. Anyone with a keen sense of history knows that that's how the culture began, with block parties in the South Bronx. Here in the West Coast, some of y'all might remember the legendary Informal Nation throwdowns at Raza park in ... More >>

  • Music

    July 9, 2008

    Keak da Sneak

    Deified (Koch)

  • Music

    June 11, 2008
  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007
  • Music

    December 5, 2007

    Prefuse 73

    Preparations/Interregnums (Warp)

  • Music

    August 8, 2007
  • Music

    October 25, 2006

    Sister Act

    ESG gets the grooves going through the decades

  • Music

    September 13, 2006

    Killing your idols and your enemies

    ESG gets the grooves going through the decades

  • Music

    May 10, 2006

    Indie Dim Sum

    The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground

  • Film

    April 5, 2006

    Latino Heat

    Antonio Banderas pulses with passion in Take the Lead

  • Dining

    July 14, 2004

    Filling the Buca

    A young chef moves his six orphaned siblings across the country to be closer to fresh ingredients

  • Music

    February 25, 2004

    House of Tudor

    Black Panthers, the "Time of the Season," and a little British dude named Goldie

  • Music

    November 27, 2002

    Hear This

    Legendary DJ Afrika Bambaataa brings his b-boy esoterica to town

  • Music

    September 18, 2002

    Cold Chillin'

    Hip hop's Atmosphere hails from an unlikely place -- Minnesota

  • Film

    July 3, 2002

    Reps Etc.

    Hip hop's Atmosphere hails from an unlikely place -- Minnesota

  • Music

    September 19, 2001

    That's Edutainment

    Rico Pabón and the Prophets of Rage find beauty in times of struggle

  • Calendar

    July 14, 1999

    Cothran

    Rico Pabón and the Prophets of Rage find beauty in times of struggle

  • Music

    December 30, 1998

    Reviews

    Rico Pabón and the Prophets of Rage find beauty in times of struggle

  • Music

    September 24, 1997

    Reviews

    Rico Pabón and the Prophets of Rage find beauty in times of struggle

  • Music

    July 23, 1997

    Recordings

    Rico Pabón and the Prophets of Rage find beauty in times of struggle

  • Film

    October 30, 1996

    Author! Author!

    Rico Pabón and the Prophets of Rage find beauty in times of struggle

  • Music

    January 10, 1996

    This Is for La Raza

    The brown and proud "Latinfest '96" descends on Oakland

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