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Black Is the New Animal: The 10 Best Current Bands That Begin with “Black”

A common strategy in naming bands is using a color to evoke a feeling or image in the listener's mind, and by far the most common color found in the names of musical acts is black.  read more

Best Coast, Wavves, Blackalicious, Bishop Allen Appear on Target Christmas Compilation

Target lassoed up an impressive roster for their festive release The Christmas Gig. The line-up includes lo-fi sweethearts Best Coast and Wavves, West Coast rappers Blackalicious and psych-rockers Darker My Love....  read more

Gift of Gab: Escape 2 Mars

Skilled MC dons space suit once again, but remains Earthbound Never tell Gift of Gab the odds. If the languid MC suddenly found himself navigating the asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back, the Millennium Falcon’s every evasive maneuver depending on the bob and weave of his flow, he’d fly the ship to safety like a hip-hop Han Solo....  read more

Classic Paste: The Best of Issues 16-18 (June - November 2005)

(JUST A FEW MORE REASONS TO HELP SAVE PASTE)Next week, I'll celebrate my 6th anniversary at this magazine. When I started as Paste's second-ever intern on June 1, 2003, we were still a tiny operation. Only five of us were in the office full-time: publisher Nick Purdy, editor Josh Jackson, assistant editor Jason Killingsworth, myself (who would go on to become associate editor) and my intern cohort, Steven Bevilaqua. Other important folks—like senior/film editor and future Paste president Tim Porter, design director José Reyes, and future associate publisher Joe Kirk—were working part-time, since Paste couldn't yet support a full staff. Back then, we were in our...  read more

Sufjan Stevens' Illinoize features Outkast, Aesop Rock, more

Montreal-based producer Tor is gunning for the King of Unlikely Samples title with his new, free mixtape, Illinoize, which mixes Sufjan Stevens with Outkast, Brother Ali, Aesop Rock and Big Daddy Kane, amongst others....  read more

Sage Francis, Blackalicious pay dues

After the success of last year’s Paid Dues festival, MURS 3:16 and Guerilla Union have moved this year's premiere independent hip-hop showcase to the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, Calif., to accommodate a larger crowd. The first Paid Dues sold-out the 5,500 capacity Shrine Expo Center in downtown Los Angeles last March and featured such acts as El-P, Aesop Rock, Brother Ali and Living Legends. This year’s lineup has grown to include Felt (MURS [Living Legends] w/ Slug & Ant [Atmosphere]), Sage Francis, Brother Ali, Blackalicious, Jean Grae, Visionaries, Mr Lif, Cage, Zion I & The Grouch, Devin the...  read more

Blackalicious - The Craft

Wanna Be So Dated?: Modern rap trends seep into Blackalicious’ latest hip-hop epic  read more

Blackalicous' Chief Xcel Remixes Afrobeat Pioneer

Quannum has just released The Underground Spiritual Game, an album of Chief Xcel’s Fela Kuti remixes. A charismatic and controversial bandleader, Kuti (pictured above right, Chief Xcel left) was a powerful activist and possibly Africa's most pioneering and influential musician. The creator of the musical style, Afrobeat, Kuti was and continues to be a major influence on a variety of artists and genres. As executive producer Paul Heck (Red Hot + Riot) explains, "Underground Spiritual Game was Fela's way of describing the reality that was below the surface of everyday life ... this mix brought me back to all the...  read more