The legendary producer/DJ Madlib is launching the Madlib Medicine Show, a once-a-month, twelve-CD, six-LP series. The series will be a combination of Madlib’s new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other lesser explored genres of music. The first installation is “Before The Verdict” [...]

Words By: Niles Heron It’s Saturday afternoon. You’re driving in your car through a somehow traffic-less City of Angels, and every time you touch the dial (in hopes of avoiding commercialism) another dope song plays. Maybe it’s the best song you’ve ever heard in your life, maybe it’s close, maybe it’s special, maybe it’s not, [...]

That’s a hell of a show for the price.

New and upcoming releases that should be on your radar (cause yo mama said so!) 1. Madlib-WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip (Rapster Records): Madlib+Guilty Simpson, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Oh No, Talib Kweli, Frank ‘N Dank, Stacy Epps, Murs=Motherfucking Maverick Music 2. LoDeck & Omega One-Postcard from the Third Rock (Johnny 23 Records): Hip-Hop light [...]

For those that never met DJ Dusk, let me tell you a little about my friend. Dusk (along with Miles) was the man behind LA’s most authentic underground hip-hop weekly, Root Down. During the years he put the party on, he and his event’s reputation attracted the creme de la creme of the music industry, [...]

Tasty sampler: www.stonesthrow.com/podcast. I like the WLIB AM logo… Clever how they have the broken lightbulb in the A of AM, so it kinda looks like FM, too. It’s in the details. Speaking of which: is it J-Rocc or J.Rocc? I think it’s J-Rocc. That’s how it’s always been in the past, at least.