The melting pot that was Berkeley California allowed Scott Loken early and constant exposure to racial diversity, which reflected in his mix of friends growing up. While pursuing a BA in Communications at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Scott felt oddly out of place in the predomi...

Katti Gray

February 4, 2008

A day after returning from what's been touted as the largest global conference on the future of music, Chuck D, rap star and rebel, was sharing his take on that meeting, on record-industry greed and on how the digital-music consumer has industry ti...

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A key member of the revolutionary hiphop group Public Enemy, Brian Hardgroove is also an activist, producer, and host of The Fusebox on Indie (indiesf.com). Hardgroove, who moved from New York—his hometown—to Santa Fe in 2006, t...

Crank That Obama is the latest single by CHEEF EXEK on the SLAMjamz record label subsidiary beat! Self produced, Cheef Exek is pushing the point of supporting democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama, by alerting folks in the hood, streets ,and lovers of hip hop today to...

Having played on the Public Enemy tour in Paris at the Zenith Theater last April, key PE members had returned the favor to world reknown Jazzist Archie Shepp by playing on the Sons d'hiver festival there this past February 6th. Called the Shepp/ Chuck D Project the tenor sax master combined hi...