Posted on 08/14/2007

Okayplayer send resident writer Mike Gadd to chop it up with DJ/Producer extraordinaire, Mark Ronson.  Here is what he learned:

Spend 15 years doing something and chances are you're going to wind up being pretty damn good at it. Take DJing for instance; quasi-celebrity status or not, (step)son of Foreigner rock God or not, Mark Ronson is good. Really, really good. But not just behind the two steel wheels...

Posted on 08/14/2007

Set up by okayplayer.com, writer M. Steve Hammer talked to Soulive the day before their new LP became the first in decades to be released on Stax Records.

After eight years as one of the funkiest trios in music modern, Soulive has reemerged, vocalist in tow, as a four man crew ready to carry a torch that has been all but extinguished. "No Place Like Soul," the group's...

Posted on 07/27/2007

Pharoahe Monch is back after a long hiatus to deliver his spiritual, insightful brand, of hip-hop with the recent release of his sophomore solo effort Desire.  If Nas proclaimed that hip-hop is dead, who better to eulogize it than Pharoahe?
 
Artists such as Common, J-Dilla, De La Soul, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli have all taken turns serving as defibrillators, for hip-hop's recent heart-failure.  Now Pharaoh is charged...

Posted on 06/10/2007

Newsflash!! A DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince reunion is just a matter of time, according to "Jazzy" Jeff Townes in a recent phone interview. "The desire is there. It has to be the right timing. With Will being one of the biggest movie stars in the world, it's hard to find the time. If the time is there, I'm there," said Jazzy Jeff Townes in a recent phone...