I'm pretty much happy to ignore this year's Grammys completely: Kokayi didn't win, Stevie Wonder suffered the indignity of sharing a stage with the Jonas Brothers, and I won't even get started on the bizarre Chris Brown/Rihanna incident that took place the night before the ceremony.
But there's one moment of Sunday's telecast that I just [...]

The legendary Chuck Brown is a man of many, many talents. You probably already know that, in addition to inventing an entire genre of music, the Godfather of Go-Go is a guitar player, singer, rapper, party starter, D.C. booster, fedora wearer, and an extraordinarily effective pitchman for lottery tickets and newspapers. But, did you know [...]

If you happened to be at E Street Cinema on Tuesday night and wondered what the hell Redskins Santana Moss and Clinton Portis were doing running around the lobby, the answer is: they were attending an advance screening of Notorious, the Biggie Smalls biopic!
The preview, sponsored by Fox Searchlight, Love nightclub, and various other entities, [...]

Next week, two things long thought impossible will occur: the country will prepare for the swearing in of its first black president and the original members of the go-go fusion band Lissen will reunite. The band plays together as one big happy group on Sunday at Mirrors.
The woes of Lissen (also known as L!ssen) have [...]

This year, as always, I struggled with whether to give more weight to the albums I admired as complete works, or the ones that contained the greatest number of blazing singles.
Album artistry won out, for the most part. The Renaissance, 808s & Heartbreak, and New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War, for example, are discs [...]

So, it looks like Ron Isley, aka Mr. Biggs, is headed to jail for three years and one month for tax evasion. Because Isley has made a good-faith effort to pay down his $3 million-plus debt, has various health issues, and, as you can see by this pic of him in that red silk smoking [...]