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Every week, photographer and conversationalist Jenny Jimenez ventures out into the city and brings back photos and notes about the folks she encounters.

Born in Pittsburgh, George began his early career at the age of 8 on the ukule le and sin ging.

Hip-hop's preeminent supervillain litters his incredibly dense rhymes with surreal imagery, ingratiatingly old-timey turns of phrase , and left-field pop-culture references he wrote in cold blood with a toothpick, all while Madlib channels Pete Rock, Sun Ra, and Firesign Theatre on the production side and kicks in some guest appearances as alter ...

Edan is crazy; not in some "danger to society" sense, but more like a frenetically funky musical madman who gleefully remains untethered to any genre or style.

LA's Stones Throw Records is widely regarded as the standard bearer for creativity in Hip-Hop. As the home for many of the finest MC's and Producers in the art including the likes of Madlib, J-Dilla, Penut Butter Wolf and of course tonight's acts Guilty Simpson and MED they stand out from their competitors through the consistency of their output.

Stones Throw has just announced a once-a-month, twelve CD, six LP release by Madlib , which will be a combination of his new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble , Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Quintet, Madlib at the Echoplex The eight brothers of Chicago's Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are a very big, very ba-a-a-d gang of horns boasting a fine lineage, having been personally tutored from age 3 by their father, Phil Cochran , who played with Sun Ra 's legendary Arkestra.

Every day The Oregonian Music Blog will post a song of the day for you to enjoy.

With the advent of ringtone rap and hip-hop singles that all sound alike, it is a pleasure to hear some heavy MCs spitting over beats that are more late '90s than late aughts.

Five Free MP3s: New Tunes from Imaad Wasif, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Jogger, Fool's Gold, and Strong Arm Steady w/ Madlib Mon., Oct.

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.

The war hawks involved in the battle for the soul - hell, the continued existence - of indie rap could not ask for a clearer distillation of the differing viewpoints and what's at stake in their fight than recent albums by four artists on the frontline.

$32.50. 8 p.m. Fri., Aug. 14. Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St. 404-659-9022. www.tabernacleatl.com. Mos Def's latest album, The Ecstatic , is a return-to-form hip-hop opus, a simultaneously breezy and substantive fun-house ride that is a lock for critical year-end lists.

Both Madlib and Guilty Simpson [ click to read ] have had reputations for unique collaborative group albums.

While Mos Def may have soured fans in the past few years by accepting acting roles ranging from a gold thief to Ford Prefect, his ability to craft a solid hip-hop album with post-rap nuances has never been in question.

Our new fave producer after his Fader Mix with close companion Bullion , UK beatmaker Paul White has just released his debut LP " The Strange Dreams of Paul White " which marryies everything we love from prog rock to BBC samples, with quirky beats and Brit humour.

Birds chirping in the background, Karriem Riggins spoke to me from his mother's house in Detroit.

A decade ago, the rapid-fire underground hip-hop rapper Mos Def dropped his celebrated solo debut "Black on Both Sides" - truly a product of the times that can never be faithfully recreated.

New music from beatcrafter and producer Onra . I have been really enjoying Chinoiseries which I only stumbled upon a couple months ago.

Last week, we bought Asher Roth a beer at Nirvana restaurant on College Street in Toronto.