In August 1973, the Jamaican-born Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell held his first block party in the Bronx, bringing the Jamaican sound system culture to America and inadvertently providing the first ...

In the '80s, hip-hop hit the mainstream, and it's stayed there in the decades since. When hip-hop emerged, it had an urgency and power that set it apart from the pop that dominated the charts, but ...

I’m a little bias in this opinion, but growing up in the ’80s was the best time ever. So much happened in the ’80s in terms of culture, pop culture, and entertainment. It was in the ’80s where hip-hop ...

The dentist’s drill. The garbage truck. Simulating the Texas Chainsaw Massacre in a slaughterhouse. Pretty unpleasant noises. And then there’s rap music. Most New Yorkers caught the first strains of ...

Tim Schafer -- and by extension Double Fine-- has a knack for injecting whimsy and playfulness into just about everything they do. So what better way to celebrate the impending Steam Early Access ...

Standing On The Corner’s Gio Escobar and Jasper Marsalis have an incredible ability to tell vivid stories through song and sound. Earlier this fall, with the help of their community of artists and ...

Thomas Pough, better known as DJ Polo, who was a member of the Juice Crew and one-half of the duo Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, died on Saturday. He was 63. One of his children announced the news in an ...