Girls and Weather
Fall Out Records
3 out of 5

To call the Rumble Strips a ska band is a tad misleading. They do have a Madness-worthy horn section that gets employed on a quite…

Beats from the ’90s
Ghetto Man Beats
3.5

The ’90s underground scene was more than a little important in the evolution of hip-hop music as we know it today. In fact, some could argue that…

South Korea’s R16 Urban Arts Festival & B-Boy Championships
When most of us think of Asia, our limited edition minds almost always automatically swing to the most influential spots like Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. But over the last…

By Blair “Bliz” Milbourne

On the last leg of his acclaimed Liquid Swords tour, the emcee known as the Gza took a young pupil to school, a student who has since 1993, never been late to a class taught…

Hello my name is…
Jason Arnold.

Aka…
J, J Dog, JDA, Jarnold.

I was born in…
Alabama, raised in Southern Oregon and Southern California. Been in Orange County since ‘85 with a winter on Kauai and a…

Here we are, another election year cycle, on the brink of witnessing history. Or so many of us think. The real question in our communities is not whether or not Barack Obama is ‘black enuff’—the real question is whether…

And the award for most gay undertones in a press release goes to…
Pickle Sickle

“The bizarre tasting pickle craze from Texas you can’t get enough of.” Yep, that’s the tag line for Pickle Sickles. …