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Distant Gig Alert: KRS-One To Perform In Dallas, And This Time It's Official

Minc Lounge in Exposition Park is following up on its Halloween Kool Herc performance by bringing another old-school hip hop icon to Dallas. KRS-One will perform at minc Thursday, January 22, along with Channel Live, according to Vigilante Music Group's Greg Barrett. The January 22 show is not the f ... More >>

Today in Music News: KRS-One's Still Anti-Violence, Kurt Cobain's Still Worth It, Stereogum's Got The Goods And Wayne Coyne's Feeling The Spirit...

Your top national music stories for Wednesday, December 24, 2008: Remember back in '89 when no one knew we were in the midst of Hip-Hop's "golden age" and KRS-One schooled us on why non-violence is good with the ditty "Self Destruction?" Well, now the young pups of today can have their own ve ... More >>

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Tuesday, June 17, at House of Blues

KRS-One and Marley Marl

Hip Hop Lives (Koch)

Verbal Seed

Friday, February 23, at Gypsy Tea Room

It's All in the Music

The evolutionary ?uest of the Roots

Cut Chemist

The Audience's Listening (Warner Bros.)

D Does Dilla

Get Down With Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

Blackalicious

Wednesday, September 21, at Hailey's

Little Brother

Thursday, August 25, at the Gypsy Tea Room's Ballroom

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

Saturday, September 18

Brand Nubian

Fire in the Hole (Babygrande)

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Okay, Player

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Wake Up!

A year-end rant or rave for the rap music industry

Fade to Black

Jay-Z previews his latest opus, The Black Album

Bad Rap

Prince Paul's latest concept record attacks lame commercial hip-hop--by co-opting it

Hip-Hop Hooray

Final Friday's growing fan base sends showcase to a larger venue

The Thin Line

Jurassic 5 knows the difference between hip-hop and rap

Slugging It Out

Atmosphere's MC Slug speaks to everyone by talking about himself

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Gypsy Tea Room

Nowhere Fast

Blackalicious takes its sweet time moving from underground to overground

Pop is Dead

Hip-huh? Antipop Consortium doesn't expect you to get it at first.

Foxy Brown

Broken Silence (Def Jam)

KRS-One

The Sneak Attack (Koch Records)

Way Out

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

Various Artists

Lyricist Lounge, Vol. 2 (Rawkus Records)

Open to All

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

De La Soul isn't dead

Rumors of De La Soul's imminent demise are proved untrue with the Art Official Intelligence series

They got it like that

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

Tell me when it's over

The world might not be coming to an end, but maybe it should be

Roy Ayers

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