Subject: A Tribe Called Quest

• D Does Dilla

  July 11, 2006

• 1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

  April 30, 1998

• Giveaway: Three Pairs Of Tickets For Tonight's Q-Tip/Cool Kids Show

  I don't really know what else there is to say about Q-Tip that hasn't been said yet at this point. Dude's a legend in the hip-hop world thanks to his work in A Tribe Called Quest and, now, based on the early raves, his new release, The Renaissance. And The Cool Kids, well, they're just what they sound like: new(-ish) to the game, but still pretty, um, cool. Need more? OK. See what I wrote about The Cool Kids last time they rolled through town and blew up the Granada or check out what Observe

  November 19, 2008

• Last Night: Q-Tip, The Cool Kids And The Knux At House Of Blues

  Q-Tip, The Cool Kids, The Knux House of Blues November 19, 2008 Better Than: Sitting at home remembering when hip-hop was still good. As far as opening bands go, The Knux was a decent, average opening act. The reaction from the crowd was tepid and it was obvious the audience wanted to move on and see the main supporting act, The Cool Kids. But The Knux didn’t let the limited crowd response hamper its show; the duo continued to work the crowd and, eventually, (mostly) won it over toward

  November 20, 2008

• Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

  A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should be subtitled "Ten More Albums You've Never Heard of and Will Never, Ever Hear," plenty. Technology has made the world smaller, and in response, we've found smaller and smaller worlds to inhabit. Thin

  December 19, 2008

• Fifteen nailsin the coffin

  December 14, 1995

• Rapper's delight

  February 29, 1996

• Brave new world

  July 25, 1996

• Spirit of '96

  January 9, 1997

• Bassx comes correct

  April 17, 1997

• Night & Day

  September 3, 1998

• Beat down

  November 12, 1998

• Listen up

  December 24, 1998

• Throw your hands in the air

  January 7, 1999

• Last Night: Lykke Li at the Granada Theater

  Lykke LiGranada TheaterFebruary 17, 2009 Better than: staying home and pretending that Lykke Li's Last Call with Carson Daly performance--which also aired last night--was actually filmed today. Andreas Öhlund It was a pretty chilling sight: the frail Lykke Li, dressed in black and set against a black backdrop in an otherwise dark theater; adorned with various spotlights as she emoted out the opening lines to her massive blog hit, "Dance, Dance, Dance". Every eye in the almost-u

  February 19, 2009

• 1999 Dallas Observer Music Awards

  April 29, 1999

• Letters

  May 10, 2001

• Mary J. Blige

  October 2, 2003

• Q-Tip

  The Renaissance (Universal Motown)

  November 20, 2008

• Q-Tip, The Cool Kids

  Wednesday, November 19, at the House of Blues

  November 13, 2008

• The First Stage

  So you want to be a rock superstar, huh? First you've gotta find a home for your sound

  April 3, 2008

• Plugged In

  Dallas bloggers fan the flames and flame the fans of local music

  June 22, 2006

• Out of the Closet

  December 29, 2005

• The Beatdown

  They call him DJ Jazzy Jeff for a reason

  November 10, 2005

• Brand Nubian

  Fire in the Hole (Babygrande)

  August 26, 2004

• Steal These Albums

  The 10 most radical hip-hop albums of all time, featuring Public Enemy, NWA and...Mos Def?

  July 8, 2004

• Kanye West

  The College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella)

  March 18, 2004

• Day Jobs

  Four Day Weekend wants to second that emotion

  April 10, 2003

• AK1200

  September 21

  September 19, 2002

• Way Out

  For Hydroponic Sound System, mixing hip-hop with everything else is just Routine Insanity

  March 8, 2001

• Open to All

  Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

  January 11, 2001

• Out & About

  Lucy Pearl

  September 7, 2000

• They got it like that

  Rap music, electronic music -- no matter what it is, the Jungle Brothers can do it

  March 2, 2000

• Roy Ayers

  June 17, 1999

• Letters

  February 1, 1996

• 1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part II)

  April 13, 1995

• Dour times

  Portishead creates a sad poetic sound that separates dreams from reality

  April 6, 1995

• Dallas Police Again Shut Down An Area Record Store Celebration

  Gloria LevarioNow that's taking your punishment in stride... Less than a month after noise complaints eventually led to Good Records' annual birthday bash/National Record Store Day celebration getting shut down by the police, the Dallas Police Department again shut down a record store customer appreciation party on Lower Greenville, this time taking to task the four-year-old, DJ- and skateboard-centric Rec Shop, located just down the street, south of Ross Avenue. And what a shame, too: It was qu

  May 18, 2009

• Download: DJ Fishr Pryce and Mes The Jive Turkey's Stealing Stars Mixtape

  Dj Fishr PryceDallas-based DJ Fishr Pryce is recognizable for a few reasons: One, he's often the man working the ones-and-twos behind Damaged Good$' impressive live displays about town; and, two, he always seems to have a new mixtape on his person, ready to hand out, every time you speak with him.Those discs are almost always a good time, usually harping on the classic backpacker end of the old-school hip-hop spectrum (the most recent disc he passed my way features mixes of A Tribe Called Quest,

  May 20, 2009

• Rob Viktum Serves Up A New, Tasty Drink

  August 27, 2009

• Meet Chucky Sly, Your Favorite Local Rapper's Favorite Local Rapper

  October 2, 2009

• Bonus MP3: Chucky Sly -- "Jimmy Is About To Die"

  Gloria Levario Your favorite local rapper's favorite local rapper. As Nic Hernandez explains in this week's dead tree version of DC9, the full-length solo debut from Dallas raapper Chucky Sly is some 15 years in the making. And ir's all the better for it, Hernandez explains:  The feel-good hip-hop popularized by groups such as A Tribe Called Quest gets a prominent nod, sure, but so too does a smattering of dub influence, funk samples and even soulful singing (Sly himself b

  October 2, 2009