When the excitement over Detox started up again last year, Dr. Dre even teased his next, next album — an instrumental project called The Planets, with songs inspired by the “personalities of each ...

In the mid-1980s, Ron G. became the master of the blend tape. By putting together R&B and hip-hop instrumentals, he and a DJ named Hot Day (whose "Hot Day Master Mix" married New Edition to Public ...

A great beat is a game changer. Period. Let’s just keep it a buck: Beats and melodies have outweighed lyrics in the eyes of most for a while and with attention spans becoming shorter and shorter, it ...

Urgent evacuation warnings as wildfires and flash flood threat hit West Coast Here are the four Republicans who helped force ...

Chicago producer Lapgan brings hip-hop that samples broadly from the South Asian diaspora to Schubas. Credit: Atif Ateeq The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't ...

We mostly know Jonwayne, the Los Angeles rapper and producer, as one of the most intensely self-reflexive rappers on the underground. He’s a rare and intense talent, and he’ll get cold and incisive ...

On Thursday, March 12, 2015, two of the most unlikely partners will take to the Kleinhans Music Hall stage. On that day, professional breakdancer and musical/visual artist Shane Depree Fry of Verve ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

"I've been interested in winds for a long time, so it was just a natural progression for me to go into flutes," said the Outkast rapper of 'New Blue Sun' Jack Irvin has over five years of experience ...