If you needed a reason to watch the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, we have one for you. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games has just announced that Underworld will be Music Directors for the event. Underworld duo Rick Smith and Karl Hyde will work alongside [...]

Dres from Blacksheep and Jarobi from A Tribe Called Quest have teamed up to form EVITAN, which you probably already figured out is Native backwards, as in Native Tongues. Anyway the duo have just released a track in support of the Occupy movement, and it’s called “P.T.I. (Occupy Wall Street).”

Public Enemy wrote the song “By the Time I Get to Arizona” in 1992 as a protest against the state’s unwillingness to observe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The song seems relevant all over again now that Arizona legislators have passed a law legalizing racial profiling. The law requires immigrants to carry immigration papers [...]

SoulStice says of the song, “‘Strange Kinda Love’ is a song about universal love and tolerance. Since it was originally released, it’s won 4 songwriting contests, including the Billboard World Song Contest. In it, I reflect on my experience as part of an interracial couple and recall that it wasn’t long ago that my wife [...]

The origin of the Ghetto Brothers is pretty fascinating. From Truth & Soul Records: The Ghetto Brothers were a gang founded in New York City’s South Bronx in the late 1960s. They eventually spread to much of the Northeastern United States. Like the Young Lords, they were involved in Puerto Rican nationalism, including, in the [...]