December 5 2011

The Interrupters

Interrupting violence on Chicago's South Side, one teen at a time

November 19 2011

Michael Garrick RIP

News reached us this week of the sad passing of British jazz pianist

November 9 2011

Byron Hurt’s Black America

Creating role models in America. Barack or Curtis?

October 29 2011

Pete Rock – words and sounds

40-minutes of madness from the master

October 20 2011

Freestyle Records

Lighting the way for independent roots music.

October 14 2011

Sunlightsquare’s Claudio Passavanti

Claudio's approach to his art is inspiring.

October 11 2011

Charles Lloyd: Now and Then

Straddling the decades with this West Coast jazzman

September 27 2011

I may be crazy but I don’t give a f*%k

Great contributions to the English language Part #1 - Hood Movies

September 23 2011

Once Upon a Time…

Bed-time stories from Obenewa

August 18 2011

Kadija Kamara

Going through some changes

August 16 2011

Boglewaltz

The last of the summer whine

July 5 2011

True Soul, a bastion of funk in Little Rock

Holy grail label lives again through Now Again's fantastic compilation

May 23 2011

Rare Jazz Documentaries

Art Pepper's survival notes & Thomas Reichman's incendiary Mingus doc

May 22 2011

BNJMN

Sunless sounds from Dorset to the Rush Hour

May 12 2011

Champion – the Crown Prince of Funky

"I went to Night Slugs and heard Lighter come on. People went crazy."

April 25 2011

Exclusive: Blak Twang interviews Rakim

Ahead of his sell-out show with Black Star, the God MC drops science

April 13 2011

Nuts to Soup

It's radio, but not as we know it.

March 30 2011

Mirrorwriting

Jamie Woon's debut LP is about to drop on Polydor.

March 28 2011

SHOOK meets FaltyDL

Our video interview with FaltyDL, live and direct from NYC

March 18 2011

Dilla, Lootpack & Stevie documentaries

What would we do without YouTube?

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