By Michael Tedder, eMusic ContributorInscrutable and defiant, the cover image of David Bowie's 12th album "Heroes" is one of the most iconic images in all of rock 'n' roll. So you can hardly blame Bowie for thinking it was… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorWhile he won't be performing this time around, Jay-Z has assembled quite a lineup for his second annual Made In America Festival. Rolling through Philadelphia this Labor Day weekend are such A-list acts as Nine… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorRolling Stone has revealed the final details surrounding this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. Set to happen on April 18th at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre and air nationwide on HBO May 18th, the… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorCleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame confirmed its next round of inductees today, dishing out nods to Rush, Heart, Public Enemy, Randy Newman, Donna Summer, Albert King, Lou Adler and Quincy Jones. Among this… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorThe only thing ardent music fans seem to enjoy more than watching artists unquestionably succeed is getting to see them fall flat on their faces. It's reassuring to know that our heroes are fallible, even… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorWho invented the remix? Lots of people - and people are still reinventing it all the time. That's the point of remixing: proof that a piece of music is never finished as long as someone… more »
By Ben Westhoff, eMusic Contributor"Soul power!" declares Chuck D on the title track of How to Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul, over a sample and chorus which both recall "Fight the Power." It's the… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorAvailable exclusively at eMusic, these two tracks from Public Enemy's upcoming album are the latest essentials to come from the genius New York hip-hop troupe. Both songs are pointed critiques of the status quo, and… more »
By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorAt first I couldn't tell what I was watching. It was late afternoon and I was lying on my parents 'bed, flipping channels and passively mapping out the night's homework. Every network seemed to be showing the same thing: a helicopter's-eye-view of people dashing down city blocks and lobbing projectiles; buildings on fire; smoke everywhere. It wasn't until they went to a reporter surveying the scene from a few miles away, blue-skied flatlands interrupted by a tornado of smoke, that I realized it was Los Angeles. That was in April. In a way, this should have been Ice Cube's moment. His post-N.W.A. career had been predicated on a vision of the pissed-off, on-the-verge, urban underclass, and the Los Angeles uprising months earlier had essentially proven his prophecies correct. But he spent the summer of 1992 on the Lollapalooza tour, the token rapper delivering gloom to the suburbs. The fires had come… more »
By Hua Hsu, eMusic ContributorSeventeen years after they revolutionized hip-hop with the epochal It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy find themselves in a strange position. It's impossible to exaggerate the importance of Public… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorHip-hop blues seems like a natural. With all the open spaces in a good piece of blues music, wouldn't a little scratching fit right in? And the way the great blues singers repeat a line… more »
