Spotlight: Robert Glasper Experiment

Jazz and hip-hop go together like R&B

"...development. The renowned jazz pianist had long collaborated with hip-hop and R&B artists, but it wasn't until 2009's fourth..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Austin Chronicle Film Bash

March 11, 2013. 20 photos.

March 12, 2013 Photo Gallery

Playback: ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! ¡Cuatro!

SXSW Music begins coming into focus

"...for its annual Stubb's day party, thus tipping off hip-hop heads to the rising star's pair of SXSW showcases...."

March 1, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film: Selected Shorts

From 3,597 submissions, 106 emerge

"...Directors: Ewan McNicol, Anna Sandilands A black man with hip-hop and zydeco roots hard-grafts through the local, all-white rodeo..."

Feb. 6, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Gayplace: Join Our Krewe

Joy Division, Madame X, John Cameron Mitchell, Erasure, Christeene, Dan Savage, and Diana Ross make this a star-studded week in gay.

"...DFW #TeamTakeOver presents Down for Whatever. Hip-hop hell-yeah with Yella Stud, DJ LaDiDa, and friends. Thursdays,..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Column

Run-DMC

Auditorium Shores, Nov. 2

"...out in their Kangols, the two surviving members of hip-hop's pioneering Run-DMC strutted out on stage like they owned..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Step Up Revolution

A tired story is enlivened by dance happenings – essentially flash mobs with killer physiques.

"...the story of Boogaloo Shrimp’s travails in that 1984 proto-hip-hop classic...."

July 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Amy Ray, Amplified

Q&A with the Indigo Girl

"...AR: Yeah, we haven't worked with any hip-hop artists. Not that we would do a hip-hop song,..."

July 12, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

You Can't Bury Me

Octavis Berry died, but he left behind the League of Extraordinary G'z

"...da 6th Street Bully. Berry was one-half of local hip-hop duo Dred Skott and a founding member of the..."

June 8, 2012 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Gay Place: One Busy Town

"...night brought to you by LeftSwing Entertainment. This month: Hip-hop, with all proceeds going to Resistencia. Third Fridays, 9pm...."

June 8, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Robert Glasper Experiment

"...pianist Bob Glasper is well-grounded in both jazz and hip-hop, having worked with Mos Def, Roy Hargrove, Q-Tip, Terence..."

March 16, 2012 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

SXSW Wednesday Showcases

Welcome to Texas via Boise, etc.

"...to meet the neighbors. Austin trots out a choice hip-hop crew in the League of Extraordinary Gz, whose "We..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Showcases

Some East (Maybe Mars), some West (UK Trade & Investment), all South by Southwest

"...Lazer – mish-masher of traditional NOLA sounds into bounce's hip-hop base and one of the fiercest ambassadors of New..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

After a Fashion

Life renews, and so does Oscar Wilde

"...ladies of Hip Hop Hooray on KOOP-FM) will spin electro-hip-hop grooves. Fashion Passion Visuals will be VJ'd by Austin's..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Knuckle

Fight Club meets the Hatfields and McCoys in this documentary about the bare-knuckle bruisers of Ireland.

"...one another, by way of videotaped challenges à la hip-hop's more lyrical tauntings, and one of the strange pleasures..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gay Place: Vagina

At last, a place for your… you know…

"...DJ SPINN Top 40, country, and old-school hip-hop at Austin's Southern gay bar. Fridays, 10pm. Town N..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Public Enemy

"...and "Can't Truss It." The man who once dubbed hip-hop "the black CNN" expressed clenched-fist solidarity with the Occupy..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

True Spirit

Q&A with FFFF rapper BLACKIE

"...At what point is your music a marriage of hip-hop and punk?..."

Nov. 1, 2011 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Andrae Van Buren

"...a groove that comfortably encompasses jazz, soul, R&B, and hip-hop – sometimes in the same tune – as on..."

June 17, 2011 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

SXSW Wednesday Interviews

"...the segments tap into the traditional storytelling aspect of hip-hop artists championed by Slick Rick, only filtered through the..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Thursday SXSW can't escape the blurbs!

"...The Brooklyn DJ/ethnomusicologist spent a year in Ghana studying hip-hop and has devoted much of his time since then..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Jean Grae/Pharoahe Monch

"...the sky for the "Stick Up Dance." In the hip-hop highlight of the weekend, Pharoahe Monch tried to become..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Off the Record

Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up dust at Waterloo Park while Lyle Lovett closes down Studio 6A

"...bull, even Euro-bungee – in its indie circus of punk/hip-hop/metal nostalgia for the attention-deficit generation...."

Nov. 12, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Interview

Detroit MC making the revolution irresistible

"...only spoke Hebrew when I moved to Michigan, and hip-hop helped me learn the language. I would look up..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Saturday Preview

"...NickNack (noon): Preeminent mover and shaker of Austin hip-hop, producer, DJ, and Crowd Control label owner NickNack kicks..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Music Feature

ACL Music Fest Friday Listings

ACL Friday by the blurbs

"...but their Appetizer EP whets with a sampler of hip-hop, electronica, and rock. – Audra Schroeder Asleep at the..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature

Free Dance!

Complimentary classes at Ballet Austin and Tapestry, plus a free monthly tap show

Sept. 10, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Riders Against the Storm

"...husband-and-wife team of Jbro and Tiger Lily declare themselves hip-hop healers, a maxim that might ring corny if they..."

July 16, 2010 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Cult of Personality

Insect Records head and Attack Formation commander Ben Webster has never been photographed with Red River mascot-to-be Butcher Bear

"..."Misbehaving." Beauty and the beast, performance art with a hip-hop soundtrack...."

June 25, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

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