Brooklyn Vegan — Thurston Moore (more by Bao Nguyen) today in NYC * stuff @ Barbes * Q-Tip (DJ Set) @ Brooklyn Bowl * Jenny Owen Youngs @ Maxwell's * John and Scott @ UCB * Totally J/K @ UCB East * Break... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — today in NYC * Ablehearts @ The Stone * Daniel Kitson @ UCB East * Zeljko McMullen @ The Stone * Melvin Van Peebles @ Zebulon * Q-Tip (DJ set) @ Brooklyn Bowl * Bustle In Your Hedgerow @... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Q-Tip goes on a roots finding journey with Okay Africa to discover that his roots extend much further than Alabama. more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Cons and Q-Tip have put aside their differences following a situation earlier this year. They even have a picture to prove it. Says Cons: After a very intense & extensive meeting, Q-Tip & myself have resolved our public & private issues. With so many... more info

Time — When he was a teenager, actor Michael Rapaport loved the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Then again, so did a lot of people. The Queens-born collective—formed in 1991 and made up of rappers Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Jarobi, and producer Ali Shaheed Mo... more info

ContactMusic — The members of hip-hop supergroup A Tribe Called Quest have reunited for their first joint interview since 1998 to mark the 20th anniversary of their landmark second album The Low End Theory Bandmates Kamaal Q-Tip Ibn John Fareed Malik Phife Dawg Tay... more info

Stereogum — In this pretty confusing promo clip for HBO’s How To Make It In America, Duck Sauce’s “Barbara Streisand” gets a rework, where Luis Guzman’s name gets swapped in for Babs’s. The video stars, among others, Luis Guzman (duh), Mark Wahlberg,... more info

Stereogum — Until I saw Q-Tip’s tweet from last week, I hadn’t put together that Nevermind came out the same day as The Low End Theory. How thematically convenient! Both records spawned dozens of imitators and, in general, changed the prevalent direction of ... more info

ContactMusic — A series of New York concerts due to feature rockers the Flaming Lips and Interpol has been cancelled in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. The gigs, also including sets by rap icon Q-Tip and dance star Girl Talk, were set to take place in Long Beach ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Just when it looked like Q-Tip (who recently cancelled a Brooklyn Bowl gig, a European tour and a Quicksilver free show appearance) was going to DJ a show this weekend, well, "The MJ party at irving plaza will be rescheduled... more info