"You came next to me on the next door and you looked down at me and I looked up at you and I was like, you said, 'What's up, ...

Sixty-three years ago today, one of the most important record producers of the 20th century was born in New York.

Gene Simmons has looked back on the time he stuck his tongue down Adam Sandler’s throat at a party several years ago.

“Yo, Dirty was shooting the fucking ceiling,” laughs RZA from the hills of Los Angeles as he regales Music Week with the ...

Rap music has been part of American culture for over 50 years. Even though the New York City-birthed genre became a global phenomenon, rappers still […] ...

This is one of many memories coming into sharper focus as the group that changed hip-hop forever with their iconic 1993 debut ...

Kim Gordon is a woman of few words. But when those words hit – even in the form of a trivial packing list (“Hoodie, toothpaste, brush, foundation”) – they can cause a cultural rupture. Two years ago, ...

Today we celebrate the 63rd birthday of one of the most influential figures in modern music history, Rick Rubin, the legendary producer and co founder of Def Jam Recordings whose vision helped shape ...

In 1993, Flavor Flav got to play Michael Jordan when Jordan wasn’t playing in the NBA. The rapper from Public Enemy went to a ...

If his story is true, then Flavor Flav deserves to share his achievement with pride.

The name Alan Freed may be largely forgotten now, but for several years in the 1950s and 1960s, he was a cultural trailblazer. He introduced the term “rock and roll” to mainstream US audiences in the ...