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...

Posted on 05/18/2007

OKP sent photographer and writer Scott Stewart to talk to Fishbone.  Here's what he learned... 

 

Scott: It’s great to see you again. The new album <i>Still Stuck in Your Throat</i> just got released here in the states.

Angelo: Fishbone is “Still Stuck in Your Throat”

Scott: I really dig that some tracks from the Henhouse sessions made there way on to this new release, like “Frey’d Fucking Nerve Endings”...

Posted on 05/18/2007
Rawkus Records, perhaps the most famous of independent Hip Hop labels, has released some strong records of late with the debuts of Kidz in the Hall, Panacea and Blue Scholars. The recent release of Canadian-born producer Marco Polo's debut, Port Authority, adds to their track record. The disc is a return to a sound long dormant in the Hip Hop landscape where amateur keyboard arrangements and memorable, if mundane, choruses...