BBC 6 Music — Public Enemy frontman talks about the band's new album and UK hip hop more info

NME - Festivals — Rob da Bank is currently stood in a sunny field (thank you festival weather gods), reporting back to us at NME exclusively for his countdown to Bestival video diary. Watch him talk about setting up the stages, Yuck, Brian Wilson's last ever UK festiv... more info

Altsounds — Legendary techno temples and indie clubs, hipsters and punks, underground and mainstream, street art and galleries, Mitte and Kreuzberg, designer labels and second-hand – all this is Berlin! And one weekend in September, festivalgoers ge... more info

Guardian Music — From humble beginnings in student digs, the record label Def Jam is credited with bringing New York's street culture and music to the masses – and even helping to elect a president'Without hip-hop we wouldn't have Obama," says Russell Simmons, co-f... more info

ContactMusic — Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav fears the Grim Reaper is on the group's trail - because natural disasters and tragedies have been following them all over the world. The colourful hip-hop icon admits the Fight The Power hitmakers are often jetting out... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — A live review of Motley Crue, Bush, Public Enemy, Matt & Kim and others at the Sunset Strip Music Festival in Los Angeles. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Company Flow at Santos (more by Brook Bobbins) WOW. As El-P confirmed, Company Flow will return AGAIN on the Sunday (10/2) of ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror in NJ. Other additions to the Asbury Fest are Public Enemy... more info

Guardian Music — Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Dorian Lynskey says consider yourself ... warned!To find, at an impressionable age, a record that not only exp... more info

Guardian Music — From Public Enemy to P Diddy, a new documentary charts how rap became a global phenomenon out of anger, sex and blingIt's 1989 and I'm hangin' tough with my £11.99 skateboard from Argos and a bright yellow Sony Walkman in Stanmore, a leafy suburb of... more info

Guardian Music — Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Dan Hancox praises Cannibal Ox's chilling rap masterpieceFrom its opening announcement ("It's a cold world out... more info