Beat Nation Live melds hip-hop and art at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Call it a party with a purpose. Beat Nation Live’s upcoming PuSh International Performing Arts Festival appearance is sure to skew towards the celebratory, because that’s what this troupe is all about. By embedding hip-hop beats and tribal rhythms within a state-of-the-art media environment, the show’s creators make an energetic case for the idea that [...]

Watch “Love and Hip-Hop” Season 2 Episode 9

“Love and Hip-Hop” is back for another season! “Love and Hip-Hop” follows six women, each with a connection to the world of Hip-Hop, who are all trying to make it in a world of backstabbing, jealousy, broken promises and shattered dreams. You’ve got Chrissy Lampkin (Jim Jones‘ longtime girlfriend/”fiancee”), Olivia Longott (who used to be [...]

Nocando takes it back to basics on Zero Hour

The West Coast has always been a little…out there. Even during the peak of the gangsta rap’s/G-funk’s cultural relevance in rap, there was a constantly bubbling underground of left-of-center, progressive, and arty hip-hop, much of it emanating from The Good Life Cafe, which would later spawn LA’s own Project Blowed. The extended cast of Blowed [...]

Pop albums outsell rock albums for the first time in seven years

Pop albums outsold rock albums for the first time in seven years in 2011, according to new figures released today (January 16). According to official figures released by the Official Charts Company, seven of the top 10 selling albums of 2011 were classified as pop albums. With big sales from the likes of Adele and [...]

Poll: Is rock music dying out?

According to figures released by the Official Charts Company yesterday, pop albums outsold rock albums for the first time in seven years in 2011. Of course, the announcement will come as little surprise to most after Adele‘s 21 resided at the top for a mammoth 18 weeks, but news that only two guitar albums landed [...]