LA City Council CD14 candidate Cyndi Otteson tell us about her platform. A #CoronaOutbreak update… and Flavor Flav leaves Public Enemy?!!
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week breaks down some of the best anti-authority anthems.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about Ice-T and Body Count.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about Rage Against the Machine.
Atomic Blonde is a Molotov cocktail that shakes your senses and goes BOOM!
An essay by Chris Barr, from The Eddie Jason & Chris Show This felt like a significant event, even if it was a minor significant event. This past Saturday, September 21st, 2013, was the first day of what is sure to become the annual Riot Fest: Denver music festival, here in the home-town of idobi Radio’s Eddie, Jason, and Chris Show. That evening, as I took in the spectacle of something like 200 people scrambling up onto a stage to cavort with the eternally leathered Iggy Pop, fronting his seminal proto-punk band the Stooges, I had a horrible revelation: The… Read more »
We’re beyond stoked to announce that idobi will be partnering with Riot Fest this year for the Denver and Toronto dates of the annual travelling festival. To familiarize you with the festival as you start planning road trips and marking your calendars, we’ve put together a crash course in Riot Fest’s history and everything you have to look forward to this year.
Hip-hop pioneer and entrepreneur Russell Simmons on Wednesday pledged to raise awareness about slavery around the world after being appointed a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Simmons, who joins celebrity ambassadors including British soccer player David Beckham, tennis player Roger Federer and actress Angelina Jolie, was appointed as ambassador to honor past and present victims of slavery. “Providing awareness is a key factor, there’s ongoing suffering and new modern day slavery,” Simmons told reporters at UN headquarters. UN agencies have been trying to draw attention to human trafficking and the enslavement of women and children in the sex trade. Goodwill ambassadors… Read more »
They’ve already finished their next record and they won’t be hitting the road with Kiss for another three weeks, so Aerosmith have been keeping busy with various side projects. Last week frontman Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry contributed music to a piece that Public Enemy’s Chuck D wrote for the introduction to the ESPY Awards. The cut, “Let’s Get Loud,” features music by the Aerosmith members and rapping by Chuck, Busta Rhymes, MC Lyte and Fife. The ESPYs will air July 16 on ESPN. Also, look for Perry hamming it up on the Food Channel. On June 27, the… Read more »
On the heels of the murder of its DJ, Jason Mizell (Jam Master Jay), on Oct. 30, groundbreaking hip-hop group Run-DMC has announced its retirement. “Some rock bands can replace the drummer,” said Rev. Joseph “Run” Simmons at a press conference to announce the formation of a coalition to help the surviving members of Mizell’s family at the Rihga Royal Hotel in New York on Wednesday (Nov. 6). “I don’t know any other way but to be the three original members. As a tribute to the positive legacy of Jam Master Jay, we started together and we want the Run-DMC… Read more »
