Photo by Doug Coombe Hello My Name Is… Mayer Hawthorne – how do you do? I was raised in… Ann Arbor, MI – just outside of Detroit. The reason that you’re reading about me is… I’m sensational and I’m also the newest signing to Stones Throw Records. Right now I’m working on… My debut album [...]

Shape Shifters Invincible Emergence Media Rating: 3.5/4 The long-awaited debut solo effort from Michigan native Invincible is like a sock to the head for anyone still sleeping on this lyrically gifted emcee. As one fifth of the all-girl hip-hop group ANOMOLIES, and a major asset to PPP’s first album, Triple P, Invincible finally steps into [...]

    “We take our jokes seriously,” says Alex Gvojic of the Peddy Cash moped gang. We’re standing in Chicago’s Warbux Mopeds storefront, staring at his appropriately named “Peddy Kruger,” in the style of the villain from A Nightmare on Elm Street—complete with a metal-clawed leather glove resting on the headlamp and a striped army [...]

Hello my name is… I got so many different names that people know me by.  One Be Lo aka One Man Army, born Raland Scruggs aka Nahshid Sulaiman.  Some people who have known me for years read interviews sometimes and don’t even know that it’s me. I was raised in… I was born and raised [...]