Soul Sides — Brass Construction: Now Is Tomorrow (Anticipation) + The Message (Inspiration) From II (UA, 1976) So I was up at the Groove Merchant over Thanksgiving and Cool Chris was playing a record over the house system and I thought,”wow, that sounds re... more info

Impose Magazine — Neo Boys were a staple of the Portland post-punk scene in the late 70s and early 80s, and though we get tired of saying it, the fact that they were all women and opening for bands like Television (on their first show!) and Nico later, is important to... more info

Sweeping The Nation —  All new features that aren't just tracks die an almost immediate death on STN but let's press on with them regardless. Simple enough, The Ten, we'd like to think reflecting the post-Buzzfeed clamour for lists (though not the post-Buzzfeed clamour f... more info

Soul Sides — Question from Argonaut: “As someone trying to send albums out to “press people” what’s the proper way to do so in 2013? Back in day you could send a CD and press release and sometimes you get a review or feature (back when they had magazi... more info

Starpulse — Rolling Stone magazine just named Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's rap anthem "The Message" the Greatest Hip-Hop Song Of All Time. more info

ContactMusic — Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's rap anthem The Message has topped a new list of the Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time.The 1982 smash hit beat... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — The 1982 hit 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was named the greatest hip hop song of all time on Wednesday. more info

Guardian Music — The Killers Runaways (Island) Electing the Killers single of the week is like announcing your favourite food is Big Macs. Their God-punching comeback starts carefully, but then, one minute in, that rollicking drum stampede shoves a cherry bomb up Bra... more info

Guardian Music — Hip-hop has great design pedigree. So why is Jay-Z and Beyoncé's summer home so naff?Given the hip-hop elite's affiliation with prestige brands – from Cristal to Courvoisier, from Louis Vuitton to Lamborghini – you'd think they'd be similarly di... more info

Guardian Music — Hammersmith Apollo, LondonIce-T was always among the most charismatic of hip-hop's early stars, but who knew he was also such an assiduous historian? The former gangster rapper has interviewed almost 50 of his peers to chronicle the history of the ge... more info