Cleared for Blast-Off

Locally owned and operated music site Blastro.com defies the Web bust with booming business and booming beats.

"...current incarnation, which relies heavily on new and underground hip-hop and rhythm & blues videos. Astonishingly, business -- in..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rock & Roll Books

Beat Box

"...Hip-hop is history, a cultural institution. The all-father of DJs,..."

June 1, 2007 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Everything Old is New Again

The Year in Albums

"...putting out the debut of Liquid Soul, a burning jazz/hip-hop collective from Chicago...."

Jan. 9, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

After the Frost

Superhero Max Frost takes on the Death Star!

"..."White Lies," a three-minute acoustic footrace thrown over a hip-hop beat that sounds like the B-side to Gnarls Barkley's..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere

Sheet music

"...Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphereby Gwendolyn D. Pough..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

B-Boy City Freestylin'

Roméo Navarro's freewheeling philosophy of dance has inspired a vibrant freestyle dance community in Austin for the past decade, and now his B-Boy City events, gathering 350-400 dancers from all over the South and Southwest and points beyond, are realizing a dream of freestylin' dancers on an even grander scale.

"...to it.' We listen to capoeira music, Tejano, Latin hip-hop, dance hall. And now we're getting to the fact..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Feature by Deborah Hay

The Pink Elephant (Radio) in the Room

Local LGBTQ advocates bring queer hip-hop to the radio and SXSW

"...Elephant Radio Show, it's even harder for queer R&B, hip-hop, and rap artists to break into the music scene...."

March 15, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Mikaila Rushing

Everybody vs. Injustice

Using hip-hop to build a just city

"...quo. That’s at least according to architects Mike “The Hip-hop Architect” Ford and Bryan Lee Jr. who spoke to..."

Oct. 13, 2016 News Post by Annamarya Scaccia

Thursday Showcases

International hip-hop, or domestic, Modern Outsider sounds?

"...the heart of Austin. Epik High are Korea's OG hip-hop crew, and space cadet girl group Crayon Pop arrives..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Been Around the World

Cine las Americas enters its fifth year as the premier festival of Latino filmmaking … only they're not calling it "Latino" anymore.

"...is that a lot of students strongly identify with hip-hop culture," Williams says. "It's always tied to black youth,..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...is an obvious high watermark in the rise of hip-hop nation, the shot heard round the clubs sounded almost..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin's House Music Scene Clings to the African-American Community That Birthed It

House music rose to prominence from Chicago’s black music community and hangs on here in its original form

"...go to these black parties and it'd always be hip-hop, R&B, and trap. I don't really connect with that."..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

R.I.P. MC Overlord

Groundbreaking local rapper seeded ATX hip-hop like no other

"...Don, ranks as the all-time leader in the Best Hip-Hop category of the Austin Music Awards, with nine wins..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

99 Luftballons (International Acts at SXSW Music)

South by Southwest by way of Sudan, Scotland, Colombia, and more

"...up on a steady diet of Nineties East Coast hip-hop, the Bogotá MC spitting reality raps with a steely..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Beethoven to Beyoncé

SXSW Music panels – topics over talent. Except they're also star-studded.

"...we decided to practice the art of the mash-up: hip-hop in India and female hip-hop scribes; global digitalization and..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Sound of the City

Black Milk's Detroit "oomph"

"...hometown of Detroit as the city making the realest hip-hop these days...."

Jan. 13, 2010 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

TCB

All the hip-hop that fits in ATX.

"..."Rapper's Delight": You don't stop. Ever. So although Austin's hip-hop community tends to keep a low profile in the..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Mind the Bullock

"...We were pleased that our weekly hip-hop party was acknowledged in the "Club DJ or Dance..."

March 28, 1997 Column

Sxsw

"...young upstart generation, Delafose isn't going for the newfangled, hip-hop influenced sound. He's a preservationist, an archive of both..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

A Good Jumping-Off Point

"...that Clara Wang’s article “The Next Generation of Austin Hip-Hop” [Music, Aug. 31] inappropriately celebrates the exploitative growth that..."

Oct. 4, 2018 Postmarks

Lazy and Confusing

"...the article asserting that Austin didn’t have a robust hip-hop scene until now offensive, lazy, and poorly researched [“Hip-Hop..."

Jan. 28, 2015 Postmarks

Cold Sweat

Where have all our black clubs gone?

"...Swan for Downtown clubs like Catfish Station. By then, hip-hop had supplanted jazz and blues as the musical genre..."

June 13, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Eight Things That Hip-Hop Taught America

SXSW panels

"...Eight Things That Hip-Hop Taught AmericaAustin Convention Center, Wednesday, March 16..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

B-boy bluez

Zell Miller III makes the four corners of hip-hop come together in the theatre

"...author, director, and performer for this love letter to hip-hop culture. He's talking about more than just music. Miller..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...Reggae, hip-hop, and rock are the common currency among the assembled..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Wake-Up Call

Looking back on the onetime heart of local hip-hop, Catfish Station, and the visuals that defined it

"...of shows hosted at Catfish Station throughout 1995 placed hip-hop in its own element. Visiting headliners made up a..."

July 22, 2005 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Flowing Over

More with Craig Brewer

"...Chronicle: How old were you when you got into hip-hop? Was that your formative musical experience?..."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Friday Picks & Sleepers

Obvious Picks and loads of not-so-obvious Sleepers!

"...say "The Beigeness" is the finest piece of UK hip-hop since Scroobius Pip met Dan le Sac. – Marc Savlov..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"..."Krushed" showcase reflects this festival's strongest and most ambitious hip-hop effort yet. Keeping in mind there's so many acts..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Tuesday SXSW 2015 Showcases

"...the Metallica to his Slayer, the master of literate punk/hip-hop, MC Lars, just as likely to drop a Moby..."

March 13, 2015 Music Feature

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