Grandmaster Flash

Longer songs are a new track for pop artists

2013-03-30 07:00:00

Five minutes into Justin Timberlake's new jam "Spaceship Coupe," something strange and surprising happens. The song keeps going. Though the singer has already run through the requisite verses, choruses and instrumental breaks, Timberlake and his...

Eastside record label still spinning out the music

2013-01-08 18:26:00

Hector Gonzalez straps a five-string bass guitar over his belly inside a music studio on a dreary stretch of Monterey Park. He plays as a smooth, prerecorded tenor joins a funky accordion through his headphones. Trying to bite a bullet, or sometimes...

PASSINGS: Jimmy Castor, Robert Dozier

2012-01-18 00:00:00

Jimmy Castor Wrote hit song 'Troglodyte (Cave Man)' Jimmy Castor, a funk and soul saxophonist, singer and songwriter best known for "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" and "It's Just Begun," died Monday of apparent heart failure at a Las Vegas hospital. He was 71,...

Remembering Jimmy Castor, the funk legend behind 'Troglodyte'

2012-01-17 16:35:38

Grammys: Tributes! Medleys! Gaga and Sugarland together!

2011-11-30 21:36:29

Before Kayne and after Bach: L.A. pioneer sampler Carl Stone

2011-11-09 16:32:59

Grammy Hall of Fame announces 2012 recordings inductees

2011-11-21 16:35:30

Remembering Rodger 'Uncle Jamm' Clayton, early L.A. rap promoter

2010-10-12 21:34:38

Nobody and Nocando become Bomb Zombies, go 'Over the Edge' in exclusive MP3

2010-11-11 16:33:33

SXSW 2011: Keynote speaker Bob Geldof compares Web music to 'the half-witted mutterings of the village idiot'

2011-03-18 16:34:46

'Hip Hop: A Cultural Odyssey' book, Grammy Museum exhibit celebrate the musical movement

2011-02-08 16:34:22

Book reviews: 'Preaching With Sacred Fire' and 'The Anthology of Rap'

2010-12-26 00:00:00

Preaching With Sacred Fire An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present Edited by Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas W.W. Norton: 976 pp., $45 The Anthology of Rap Edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois Yale University Press:...

One of the pioneers of hip-hop music, Grandmaster Flash, is 53.

2012-12-26 18:19:00

Grandmaster Flash raps onstage while stationed behind the turntables.

2011-11-30 21:28:00

Common, L.L. Cool J, Melle Mel and Scorpio perform a cover of "The Message" at the Grammy Nominations Concert.

2011-11-30 00:00:00