Jo Mersa Marley: Following the calling
Though he bears the Marley surname and has been heavily influenced by his father, Jo Mersa does not walk in the shadows of his musical lineage – he walks beside it, guided by it – as he …
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An Evening in with the boys from Post Animal
Riding under the 606, I pass through a graffiti underpass and pull up to a house on the border of Logan Square and Humboldt Park. The gentlemen from Post Animal have invited me over so we …
Manifesto is on a mission to give voices to the hip hop community
Manifesto is an organization built by activists, artists, and creatives with the goal of bringing people together into a collective that not only hosts a major hip hop culture festival in …
Reggae Sumfest brings best of reggae legends, new acts, and a few surprises to Jamaica
Admittedly, like most people, when planning to travel for a music festival I’m likely to head out to Texas or some of the more eclectic corners of Europe but this year I’ve experienced …
An identity of its own: Chicago’s evolving hip-hop culture (Part I)
Chicago is known for many things: the food, the skyline, the brutal winters and unforgettable summers; but at its core is the music, specifically the hip-hop music, which is the foundation …
Red Bull Sound Select: Developing Toronto’s artists one showcase at a time
Toronto is a city stacked with all sorts of talent across a variety of disciplines but while there may be hundreds of actors there seems to be an infinite number of musicians trying to catch …
UNITY Charity: empowering youth through hip hop arts
*** When looking at cultural genres, hip hop, historically, has a bad reputation. But bad neighbourhoods, bad attitudes and misguided glory generated by bullet marks on certain celebrities …
How FME won the summer and this festival season
A I can’t tell what time it is, but by the looks of it the sun is about to come up. The area around the building is still crowded with people and where I am, in that very moment, three …
Giraffage: poster boy bedroom producer
by Irene Lo “The worst time of my life and the best time of my life” reads, in part, the description Giraffage put for his 2013 mixtape, Needs. Once available by donation, the transitional …
Gary Richards is businessman DJ we all want to be
by Irene Lo “I got to jump in on this conference call ‘cos we got all the Holy Ship people waiting. Definitely thanks. Bye.” Gary Richards is a busy man, if you didn’t know already. …