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 a few tracks, but reading early press coverage about the band, you’d think they were the second coming of the [...]

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 era rivals much of today’s musical productions. And during the ’90s, more than a few prominent artists on the underground [...]

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 couple years a scene has been developing in South Korea, especially in the capital of Seoul, [...]

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 by the thoroughbred Staten Island academics known as the Wu-Tang Clan. With the recent release of [...]

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 few years in Mammoth. The reason that you’re reading about me is… I guess someone finds me interesting… [...]

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 or not America will be capable of overcoming its own racism when the curtain is pulled [...]

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. “It’s an increasingly popular novelty snack treat that may sound a bit hard to swallow. But Pickle Sickles pickle juice [...]