L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — "How many of y’all in here love real hip-hop?,” Raekwon asked during the Wu-Tang Clan’s performance at Coachella on Sunday night. more info

So Much Silence — I’ll forever have love for Jurassic 5, so even six years after the L.A. hip-hop idols broke up, curiosity pulled me back in (and now they’re on the comeback trail at Coachella). That’s a good thing. I might have otherwise overlooked this new si... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Jurassic 5 called it quits in 2007, and if the hip-hop act's catalog isn't exactly old enough to be found encased in amber, there's been little noise on the group since its breakup. It's OK, for instance, to have been completely surprised to see Jura... more info

Impose Magazine — When I was 17 it was Beat Junkies mixtapes that educated my Ohio-raised ass on the West Coast underground beyond Jurassic 5's "Jayou" from Lyricist Lounge Vol.1 and Dilated Peoples' "Work The Angles" single on ABB. In fact, I picked up the Th... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Soundcrash & The Doctor’s Orders are proud to present a meeting of two giants as Jurassic 5’s DJ Nu-Mark and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad share one stage in this supreme Hip-Hop DJ encounter! Recent Zulu Nation inductee Nu-Mark�... more info

Guardian Music — They were tiny, tatty – and terrific. For Record Store Day on Saturday, our pop writers remember the shops where they first fell in love with musicFreewheelin' in Nottingham It was the place where I first heard Bob Dylan, in the late summer of 1963... more info

Guardian Music — A Public Enemy doco takes Sam Wollaston back to his days of fighting the powerThis – Public Enemy: Prophets of Rage (BBC4) – takes me back. To Brixton Academy, I'm not sure what year, 1989 maybe. On stage are these dudes dressed as soldiers: they... more info

Soul Sides — Polyrhythmatic was the 8th installment in my hip-hop mixtape series, originally released in 1998. This took me about five months to put together and all said, I’m still satisfied with most of my song choices here. There’s only a handful of trac... more info

Guardian Music — 1999: Number 41 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicThey thought of themselves as "true schoolers" – devotees of hip-hop's core values – and coalesced around bands such as Jurassic 5 and indie labels such as ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Galactic is a funk and jazz jam band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. "The Other Side Of Midnight: Live In New Orleans" was released today May 3, 2011 on ANTI- Records. Originally formed in 1994 as an octet (under the name Galacti... more info