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KRS-One

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Heiruspecs' Sean McPherson talks music copyright with expert Peter DiCola

    By Sean McPhersonSean McPherson teaches at McNally Smith College of Music, is a founding member of Twin Cities hip-hop collective Heiruspecs, and plays bass with Dessa's touring band. He recently conducted a conversation with a leader in the changing terrain of the music copyright world, Northwester ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    De La Soul mark 25 years as an act at Cabooze show in April

    ​Nothing short of impressive when any music act can beat back the critics, the labels, the in-fighting, and the pressures to just move on with their lives and stay together for a decade. Now when you're talking 25 years, that's something reserved for just  a handful of cats, and De La Soul is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    High School of Recording Arts students offer up track, plan benefit show for North Minneapolis tornado relief

    ​With segments of North Minneapolis still ravaged from this past May's destructive tornado, the Twin Cities music community has stepped forward to raise money for relief efforts with a series of benefit concerts. Earlier this week, First Avenue announced that KRS-One would headline a benefit in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    KRS-One headlining North Minneapolis tornado benefit with Slum Village, Toki Wright

    ​KRS-One is coming to Minneapolis on Tuesday, July 19 to headline First Avenue, and it's for a great cause: The Bronx-based influential rapper is joining a strong lineup of hip-hop artists like Detroit's Slum Village, Chicago's Da Black Pearll and the Twin Cities' own Toki Wright and Truthmaze to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Soundset Series: Rhymesayers staples Brother Ali, Blueprint, Grieves & Budo, more

    Brother Ali​Back before Soundset became the annual festival it is today, there was a Rhymesayers-hosted event by the same name that took over, and consistently sold out, the First Ave Mainroom every Wednesday, housing some of the big names on the company roster as well as visiting acts. The festi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Meet your Bassgasm DJs, Vol. 2: Heavygrinder, Keith Mackenzie, and Christian Bruna (MP3s)

    It's almost that time, bass fanatics. Woody McBride's second takeover of First Avenue in six months goes down in just one week. Next Friday, more than 60 DJs will descend upon the club and play some of the funkiest, ear-splitting, heavens-opening tracks known (or not known) to man for nearly 10 ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    "We Are The World" remake debuts, means well, mostly underwhelms

    Somebody should have just written a new song from scratch and called it anything else.

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2009

    Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: Oct. 26-30

    P.O.S. hits First Avenue and releases a new music video, Har Mar Superstar plays Late Night, Solid Gold release a new song & Owl City tops Billboard.

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    KRS-One on one: Hip-hop needs more women

    KRS-One breezes through town, but not before some parting words of wisdom.

  • Music

    October 21, 2009

    KRS-One, Shonen Knife, and more

    KRS-One breezes through town, but not before some parting words of wisdom.

  • Calendar

    October 21, 2009

    KRS-One

    KRS-One breezes through town, but not before some parting words of wisdom.

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Minnesota Mixtape 2008

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Music

    June 4, 2008

    Trama and Muja Messiah

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 28, 2008

    Trama

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2008

    Akon: Konvicted Liar

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2008

    Breakfast of Champions 4/16: Poo-tee-weet?

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2008

    KRS-ONE makes miracles happen: Jordan Selbo reviews

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2008

    KRS-ONE

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Music

    April 9, 2008

    Critics Picks: KRS-ONE and more

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2008

    Edutainment: Jordan Selbo reviews El Guante

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2007

    Breakfast of Champions: 11/15

    Every year I make mix CDs of my favorite tracks, with one song per artist per disc. Here's the '08 edition, local and national. It's all from 2008 unless otherwise specified, but there are a few oldies. At the bottom are my year-end lists, because I know you needed more of those. Happy holidays! MN ... More >>

  • Music

    September 19, 2007

    Words I M.anifest

    Kwame Tsikata’s Journey from West Africa To Just West of the Mississippi

  • News

    April 11, 2007

    Dark Star

    Wrong image, wrong religion, wrong city: Meet Brother Ali, hip hop's unlikely savior

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2007

    He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

    Wrong image, wrong religion, wrong city: Meet Brother Ali, hip hop's unlikely savior

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2007

    Top 50 CDs from 2006

    Wrong image, wrong religion, wrong city: Meet Brother Ali, hip hop's unlikely savior

  • Columns

    December 20, 2006

    Kinda Blue

    Have gun, will unravel: My life as a fake cop

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2006

    Complicated Dread: the Mikey Dread interview

    Have gun, will unravel: My life as a fake cop

  • Music

    November 9, 2005

    Here Comes a Regular

    Slug and Ant bring Atmosphere back home

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Local Music Yearbook '03

    We Sang. We Danced. We Set things on Fire. And Sometime after the Bar Closed, We Wrote It All Down for You.

  • Music

    May 21, 2003

    The Born Identity

    Chicano Revolutionaries and an albino Muslim give the Rhymesayers something new to say

  • Music

    June 19, 2002

    Go Ahead, Punk, Make My Day

    Is Slug's hip hop the yawp of a new blank generation?

  • Music

    January 24, 2001

    Son House of Pain

    White rapper Everlast gets in touch with the raw roots of black blues

  • Music

    December 6, 2000

    Heads Will Roll

    White rapper Everlast gets in touch with the raw roots of black blues

  • Music

    October 25, 2000

    The Collective Conscious

    Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek gather everyone from Nelson Mandela to Rick James under the hip-hop tent

  • Music

    October 25, 2000

    Walk, Don't Run

    The oldest crew out of Minneapolis drops the boldest, most self-possessed hip-hop album of the year

  • Music

    September 13, 2000

    P.M. Dawn: The Best of P.M. Dawn

    The oldest crew out of Minneapolis drops the boldest, most self-possessed hip-hop album of the year

  • Music

    March 8, 2000

    Femi Kuti: Shoki Shoki

    The oldest crew out of Minneapolis drops the boldest, most self-possessed hip-hop album of the year

  • Arts

    February 16, 2000

    You Down with GOP?

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Music

    March 31, 1999

    various artists: Old School vs. New School

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Music

    February 17, 1999

    Rob Swift: The Ablist

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Music

    August 19, 1998

    Just So So Stories

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Music

    June 24, 1998

    The Game of Eightball

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Music

    June 17, 1998

    Various Artists: Lyricist Lounge: Volume One

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Music

    April 16, 1997

    Muggs Presents... The Soul Assassins (Chapter I) by various artists

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Music

    November 20, 1996

    Record Roundup

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • News

    July 10, 1996

    Who Are These Girls & Guys?

    That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

  • Music

    February 7, 1996

    Record Roundup

    That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

  • Music

    November 8, 1995

    Wes' Side Stories

    That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

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