Montreal Announces Amazing Indoor Jazz Fest Lineup

The legendary Montreal Jazz Festival always brings a fire-hot lineup and this year is no exception: Aretha Franklin, Leonard Cohen, Gilberto Gil, Oliver Jones, Chick Corea, Vieux Farka Touré, De La Soul, the RZA, Public Enemy, and Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Are you kidding me? Oh,...

Rock the Bells in SF just plain ROCKED

You could tell it was gonna be a badass show on Saturday from the energy on the Caltrain from Sunnyvale, packed with hip-hop heads and rockers from the mid-nineties should-to-shoulder trying to catch a buzz. Whether it was the dudes recounting Comedy Central's roast of Flava...

Fight the Flavor

"...In case you don't know him beyond his reality shows, Flavor Flav is a key member of the most influential hip hop group ever, Public Enemy. The same group that a nation of millions couldn't hold back, the same group that trumpeted Louis Farrakhan and cursed...

Your man Flavor Flav is doing his thiiiiing

"This time six years ago, Flavor Flav, the flamboyant clock-wearing member of the groundbreaking rap group Public Enemy, was living in a low-rent apartment near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. He was scalping baseball tickets for extra cash, battling a long addiction to drugs...