When SETI X—the San Francisco-based emcee and recipient of the Pharrell Williams-backed J Dilla Music Tech Grant—told me about a small brick-and-mortar he co-owned with Delrokz, a turntablist and ...

The Music at the Intersection festival is on year number four in St. Louis, Missouri, with funk, jazz, hip hop and blues genres reigning. The Sept. 14-15 music lineup includes more than 50 national, ...

From watching his father perform with jazz luminaries as a child to producing for hip-hop royalty, Karriem Riggins has spent his life at the intersection of musical worlds. The Detroit native, who ...

Looking for something to do during the next week? Here are just a few happenings in Hampton Roads. The 40th annual Norfolk Waterfront Jazz Festival returns to Town Point Park Friday and Saturday from ...

We sit down with Kev Choice, a classically trained pianist, rapper, composer, and educator, who has reshaped the Bay Area ...

The “Ta-Ta for Now” tour brings the band to the Somerville Theatre Wednesday. The musicians say they may continue to play ...

A scene out of hip-hop history circa 1996: The venue is the 1,500-capacity House of Blues in Chicago, modeled loosely after a Prague opera house, a joint that’s hosted artists from Aretha to the Who.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Mixtape Collective offers limitless possibilities when it investigates the past, present and future of hip-hop dance with its weekend presentation of "Mixtape 6: Cypherspace," at the Cowles Center. "I ...