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Highlights include Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen, Balcones Heights Jazz Festival, River City dog shows

The Stamp Albums: Hip-Hop from Dorothy features a bevy of Hip-Hop classic albums highlighting the past four decades of the culture.

It’s been an action-packed few weeks for the Backstreet Boys — from the...

Summer comes with a soundtrack. It changes from person to person, as individual tastes dictate what genres, artists and, indeed, moods dominate the playlists.

Hip-hop, cultural movement that attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and ’90s; also, the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form. Although widely considered a synonym for rap music, the term hip-hop refers to a complex culture comprising four elements: deejaying, or “turntabling”; rapping, also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”; graffiti painting, also known as “gr...

"The Message," released by New Jerseys Sugar Hill Records 40 years ago, made hip-hop what it is today. Revisit the records history.

"The Message," released by Englewoods Sugar Hill Records 40 years ago this week, made hip-hop what it is today.

Walk through The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City and you’ll see rap lyrics from Nas, Slick Rick and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s hit song “The Message” splashed in graffiti on the walls.

In honor of Black Music Month, theGrio highlights the Black music producers who’s innovative techniques had dramatic impact on music.

As a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, he helped invent hip-hop. He spent the rest of his life trying to recapture that glory. Then, in seven minutes on a Manhattan street, it all came to an end.