Jazz has once again found its way into mainstream Hip-Hop. With the success of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, more artists have begun incorporating classic brass and string jazz elements into ...

Digable Planets burst onto the music scene in 1993 with their Grammy-winning single, “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”. Made up of Ishmael Butler (“Butterfly”), Craig Irving (“Doodlebug”) and Mary ...

Catch them at Bumbershoot this Sunday. All of that changed, however, with Blowout Comb. This album can be compared—in terms of originality, depth, complexity, political consciousness—with the best of ...

Festivals like Ultra and III Points usually dominate Miami’s attention, but a road trip north lies a different world entirely. Since 2013, Hulaween has transformed the 800-acre Spirit of the Suwannee ...

My dad thinks I’m the shit. I know this because the ringtone he chose for me on his cellphone is Digable Planet’s “Rebirth of Slick” — that early 1990s crossover hit that coined the phrase, “I’m cool ...

I always thought there was some alternate dimension where Digable Planets had the massive career of the Fugees. Both were 90s hip-hop trios made up of two men and a woman, and each released only two ...

Musical genres will blur and memories awaken Friday night at the last regular Brazos Nights concert of 2025, which features three groups known for fusing hip-hop with jazz, funk and rhythm-and-blues.

Sometimes an album or two is enough. The Sex Pistols landed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame courtesy of just one release, “Never Mind the Bollocks.” Guns N’ Roses’ output, which earned the notorious ...