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Jesse Frohman An amazing thing about listening to hip-hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the sense of infinite possibility. It seemed like every week, some new record came out that sounded like nothing you had ever heard before, and opened up some whole new territory you’d never even considered. The technology, the subject matter, and the audience were all shifting at warp speed; N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, and De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising all radically changed the direction of music, and they all came...

Throughout his career, Prince surrounded himself with other musicians that he supported, mentored, and studied. Early on, he was writing so much music that he recruited or assembled other acts to play his songs—The Time, Sheila E., Vanity 6. The “Minneapolis scene” of the ‘80s, his engineer Susan Rogers once said, was really “one guy who created his own competition in order to be a scene.” But after his superstardom was secured, Prince continued to reach out to young musicians and bring them into his orbit, and—on the fifth anniversary of his death—those artists are still abs...

Apple The first time I saw Billie Eilish, it was at the Governor’s Ball Festival in New York City in June 2018. She was sixteen years old. She played in the middle of the afternoon at one of the side stages. Her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? wouldn’t be out for another nine months, but it was very clear what was happening. The tent was packed, overflowing, but you could still see girls sprinting to push their way inside. They knew every word to the singles Eilish had released on SoundCloud and on her EP

50 years later, Gamble and Huff's Philly sound stirs the soul In a photo taken remotely, Kenny Gamble, a co-founder of Philadelphia International Records, at his home in Philadelhpia, Feb. 17, 2021. The songwriters and producers Gamble and Leon Huff’s Black-owned label Philadelphia International Records turned a city’s aesthetic into a movement that reverberated around the world. Devin Oktar Yalkin/The New York Times. by Alan Light (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- By the late 1970s, things had gotten so busy at Philadelphia International Records that the label’s co-founders, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huf...

Updated on January 21, 2021 at 9:01 pm Vito Di Stefano Good news for local music fans: The principal owner of San Diego's beloved, iconic Casbah, the beating heart of the local music scene, said the legendary club will make it through the pandemic, no matter how long the wait. Tim Mays doesn't really look any different than the last time many of us saw him, back in March just before public-health orders closed down the Casbah and all the other music venues in the state. After riding the COVID coaster for more than 10 months, his club on Kettner will emerge sometime in 2021 with its core team ...