The streets of Los Angeles and Compton are synonymous with gangsta rap, but it was a small venue near East Hollywood at the corner of Melrose and Normandie avenues that helped launch the city’s ...

Raquel "Rockz" Aleman (bottom left) plays a game of chess with Mikey (bottom right). Hip-hop and chess may seem like an unlikely pair. But a new club has combined the two in a way that’s educating ...

In the early 1980s, Michael Barney and his wife left his hometown of Camden, N.J., and relocated in Atlanta, where he started working in telecommunications and earned the nickname “Mr. Magic” from ...

It’s a question being asked by local turntablist DJ Element over the house mic, and a crowd of hundreds of people packing the patio of Crescent Ballroom on a Saturday night in late March eagerly ...

When Mohamed Moretta read New Times‘ recent story remembering the Beat Club, a strip-mall hot spot in Westchester that once hosted big-name acts such as Gloria Gaynor and Exposé, he noticed something ...