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  The Importance and Future of Hip Hop’s Voice in Media

  by Ron Grant

  The 2014 VH1 documentary The Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip Hop does what no other hip hop documentary has done before.

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  RIOT FEST CHICAGO 2016: Day 1 — The Flaming Lips bring Bowie.

  by Mitch Foster

  As a fan who had no room left to applaud, I couldn’t help but wonder what it’s like being in a band who knows they

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  Brian Wilson Live Review & Photos | St. Augustine Amphitheatre, FL | September 10, 2016

  by Jason Earle

  Countless stars benevolently roast my exposed skin. Some kind of Light Bright art installation gone exactly right. The beach is

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  PREVIEW: Kaleigh Baker w/ special guests Bjorn & Francois | Lil Indies, Orlando, FL | TONIGHT, September 17, 2016

  by Sarah Schumaker

  Kaleigh Baker is a full house. At any point in time, wielding her triple honey vocals above you, still holding the cards in her

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  SIGT HIP HOP STOP W/RON GRANT: Kanye Beefs With Cudi, Jay Z On The War On Drugs, 2Pac Biopic Trailer, Vince Staples Creates Music Program, Nicki Minaj Gets Shaded, Joe Budden Drops New Music

  by Ron Grant

  Want a fresh perspective on Kid Cudi’s beef with Kanye or the new 2Pac movie?  Here’s our take on some of the biggest

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  TONIGHT: Mills High Homecoming ft ASTRO WAVE at Will’s Pub, Orlando FL

  by Sarah Schumaker

  It’s not too late to find a date to one of the events of the season, or hell, go by yourself and prowl by the punch bowl,

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  ROCKY VOTOLATO performing ‘MAKERS’ at Backbooth on Tuesday, September 20! | w/ Likeways and Chris Staples

  by Mitch Foster

  Rocky Votolato is my favorite storyteller. Makers is an album I listened to over and over when I was starting Shows I Go To.

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  Twin Peaks Live Review & Photos | The Social, Orlando, FL | Tuesday, September 13, 2016

  by Shawn Grey

  Twin Peaks played a killer show to an, at first, average crowd at the Social on Tuesday night. The crowd in the pit initially

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  Festival Preview: Electric Daisy Carnival | Coming to Orlando November 4 & 5, 2016 | Tinker Field

  by Collen Pryor

  Electric Daisy Carnival or EDC is a raging dance party that always tours and never really stops. The theatrical caravan was

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  SIGT HIP HOP STOP W/RON GRANT: Drake and Kanye Working On Music, Pete Rock Comes At Mumble Rap, Atlanta Is A Hit, Mac Miller And Ariana Grande Have A New Song, Common Debuts A New Single, New Signees To G.O.O.D. Music

  by Ron Grant

  Want a fresh perspective on the week in Hip Hop news? Maybe to get an update on the Pete Rock/Lil Yachty beef or to see what Ice

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  SOLD OUT TICKET GIVEAWAY: Riot Fest and Carnival Chicago 3-Day Pass, Featuring Brand New, Death Cab For Cutie, The Flaming Lips and More! | Douglas Park, Chicago | Friday, September 16 – Sunday, September 18, 2016

  by Trevor Bosmans

  I attended Riot Fest and Carnival in Chicago for the first time in 2014 where I saw The National, Jane’s Addiction and one

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  THANK YOU: Fences for making ‘To The Tall Trembling Trees’ | Album Review

  by Mitch Foster

  I’m so warm. I’m humbled. I’m barely breathing but fully alive. The new Fences EP To The Tall Trembling Trees, released

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  Why 1996 is the most Important Year in Hip Hop History

  by Ron Grant

  1979: “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang hits the airwaves. 1984: the founding of Def Jam Recordings. 1986: Run

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  VIDEO: Anderson .Paak best NPR Tiny Desk EVER?!

  by Mitch Foster

  I’ve seen it sober, the day it came out, high a week later, sober on repeat, on shrooms right now on the couch. And,

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  SIGT HIP HOP STOP W/RON GRANT: Lauryn Hill Gets Nas For Her New Tour, New Isaiah Rashad Album, Puffy Welcomes Students, Kendrick Lamar/Childish Gambino Mash up Album, Tyler The Creator On Viceland, Teyana Taylor’s Breakthrough

  by Ron Grant

  Want a fresh perspective on the week in Hip Hop news? Here’s our take on some of the biggest stories of the past seven days.