With the festival market so cluttered with repeat acts this year, it's a breath of - well, it is what it is - to come upon a festival bearing no overlap whatsoever with other fests. That's right, the 2011 infomercial for the annual Gathering of the Juggalos is up on YouTube! Whoop, whoop, ninjas. The 12th edition of Insane Clown Posse's own festival will take place in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois August 11-14 and feature the usual Psycopathic Records heavy-hitters: Twiztid, Dark Lotus, Anybody Killa, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Psycopathic Rydas, Marz, and of course ICP themselves will [...]

Adam Lambert - Wireimage Get ready, Glamberts! Adam Lambert will share the story of how he became one of pop music's hottest stars on the new season of VH12s Behind The Music , the Los Angeles Times reports. The series is back to dig into the lives of some of the music world's most prominent players on its new season, kicking off on June 29 with a profile on producer/rapper extraordinaire Missy Elliott . [...]
Man... It's been so long ago that you really never think about the fact that Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Eazy E were all on the same team. Damn that is like a juggernaut all star team. Can you imagine what would have happened if Eazy E was still here and they all stuck together?
May 12, 2011, 12:00pm
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Dour qui est désormais une énorme machine tentaculaire bien huilée, voyant défiler 200 artistes par an sur quatre jours, n'a pas toujours été comme ça. Quand ils ont décidé de se lancer dans cette grande aventure qu'est l'organisation d'un festival en plain air, ils ne devaient pas penser que cela prendrait une ampleur pareille jusqu'à devenir un des festivals les plus importants de l'Europe du nord. Il y a 23 ans, en 1989 le premier festival de Dour a lieu avec, à cette époque, cinq artistes seulement. Bien évidemment une seule scène donc [...]
Cloudcast: Meet Murs! The Other Nick Carter! There is a lot of rapping out there in the world. Lot of noise being made, but not much of it is actually saying anything. As much as I love meaningless rap, occasionally I wonder where all the story telling and opinionated rappers went? Perhaps with the pressure on emcees to produce endless amounts of albums, mixtapes and throw away blog tunes, there comes a point where you have little else you want to express. Meet Murs (Born Nick Carter in 1978). He is [...]

baby huey & the baby sitters - "hard times" (download) "Hard Times" has been sampled heavily by hip hop acts ranging from Ice Cube to A Tribe Called Quest . Baby Huey didn't have any full length releases until after his premature death in 1970 at the age of 26, but The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend, produced by Curtis Mayfield , is considered by some to be a classic. [...]
Brand new DJ Quik featuring Ice Cube, but to be completely honest, I'm currently not buzzing off on this, though you may feel differently. Download: DJ Quik ft. Ice Cube "Boogie Til You Conk Out"
On Monday, April 11th, Ice Cube's "I Am The West" Tour rolled into Vancouver. Admittedly I tend to avoid going to see hip-hop acts that I grew up listening to, the reason for this is that as these rappers get older, they lose a LOT of their mic control and lyrically don't sound as strong [...]

For someone who grew up in Southern California during the height of gangsta rap's popularity, seeing Ice Cube is like going home. After funneling through metal detectors and having my purse sniff-tested for drugs by the Roseland Theater ’s security guards, the night begins with DJ T.J. spinning classic 90s jams. The brief DJ set ends, and we are introduced to the first openers, Erok and Mayo , who won an "Open for Ice Cube" contest hosted by Jammin' 107.5. Both performers appear nervous, and hardly move during the delivery of their rhymes. The first song [...]

"It Was A Good Day" iS notorious for being citied in Facebook statuses, Twitter updates, and the like. Sure the original song that everyone listens to is great, but here at iLS were aren't really concerned with that. I found the original remix of this song a while back and was obsessed with it for at least a month. It's nothing new, because it came out in 1992. But that doesn't mean it should be overlooked. This remix seriously gives you that sense of feel good hip hop. The original is just too hood for me, if that makes sense. [...]
The possibly-not-final cover art for Anthrax's Worship Music So I have a friend who works closely with Camp Anthrax. I obviously can't tell you the friend's name, but I can tell you that he once told me that the Dan Nelson version of Worship Music was awesome, and that I've been begging him to let [...]
Top music picks on a night everyone will be curious who comes out on top at the "Air Sex Championships" at the Satellite: ► The Echo and the Echoplex will be going off thanks to Dub Club's Japan Benefit, with the Chris Murray Combo and Queen P and the Apologies performing. ► South African quartet the Parlotones rocks the Viper Room, supported by the Hundred Days . The Parlotones have been touring the U.S. for the first time, and drummer Neil Pauw put together a video (above) for their song [...]

Right...so you guys remember last month's comp ? Yeah...I'm still trying to wash all the lovey-dovey ickyness from it off of me. So I went the complete opposite direction on this one. That's right. This one is 100 percent ignorance. Copious amounts of profanity will spew from your speakers and headphones. People will get shot. Drugs will be sold. Women will be degraded (only on wax though, I don't play that shit in real life). But yeah man, this comp might just offend someone. I'd be lying if I said I don't bump every last one of the songs [...]

O n a random, non-musical (but certainly entertaining) side note, has anyone else noticed the face of Johnny Drama (of Entourage esteem) plastered all over the sides of Los Angeles buildings recently? This is the third "ODRAMA" (which is what it says in black at the bottom) I've seen in the span of only a few weeks, and honestly, considering drama is pretty easily the greatest character ever to have been placed on television, I'm totally down with it. Here's a track too many people have forgotten [...]

S-P-R-I-I-N-G It is going to be 60 degrees where I am tomorrow, and there’s no way you can walk around in that first-time-of-the-season weather without a new spring mixtape. This is meant to be listened to when the sun is shining…..run around outside, drive with the windows down, procrastinate on everything important. Go, go, go! Download the zip file . Track Listing: 1.) Two Door Cinema Club- Something Good Can Work (THE TWELVES remix) 2.) Down At The Post Office- DJ Design [...]

Last weekend saw two great nights on the trot at Lavery's. Friday night was GIGANTIC good times. I had decided that I was going to play a bit more of an old school set, with loads of indie, alt rock, alternative and whatnot - basically more of the kind of thing that the club used to be known for. Recently, I've probably played a bit more of the dance end of the spectrum, with a smattering of modern pop, for the past while. I didn't realise playing an old school set was going to be [...]

I've got three pairs of tickets to giveaway to the Don Mega's show this Sunday at the Mid. All you have to do is answer the below question correctly and send me an email with the Subject: Cube in Chicago. I can't lie, I'm as excited for this show as I've been for any hip-hop show in quite some time, as I haven't seen Cube live since the Up In Smoke Tour back in 2000. How could you miss this? If you DON'T win, you can purchase your tickets here now . Doors are at [...]

WC has long been one of the most consistent underground powers of West Coast Gangsta Rap. No beef, label, or other Earthly force will make him compromise his music. So as usual, he’s stuck to his guns and dropped the first single off of Revenge Of The Barracuda , “You Know Me,” featuring the customary accomplices Maylay and Ice Cube. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but at the same time, collaborations like this are always interesting to hear. These three have already proven themselves on multiple occasions to have a cohesive chemistry together, and [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Marnie Stern w/ Tera Melos, Cinemechanica Monday, February 28 Drunken Unicorn - 736 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE in Atlanta 30306 Admission $10 / Purchase Tickets If you've ever come across Marnie Stern's name, you've likely heard much about her stunning prowess on the six-string—the frenetic double finger-tapping, her jaw-dropping chops. But what often gets lost in translation is just how good and unique of a songwriter she is. Her music spans a wide gamut. There's the [...]
What is going on this week in the D? Tuesday, March 1, 2011: - Ice Cube at House of Blues ( Tickets ) Wednesday, March 2, 2011: - Linkin Park at American Airlines Center ( Tickets ) Thursday, March 3, 2011: - Colin Hay at Granada Theater ( Tickets ) Friday, March 4, 2011: - Fair To Midland at Trees* Saturday, March 5, 2011: - [...]