Title: Music Fest 2012 featuring Angie Stone, Dwele, and Faith Evans Location: The Cannon Center, 255 North Main Street, Memphis, TN Description: This is how you bring Christmas cheer in 2012! -GoodLife Style- With 3 of the industries best in Neo-Soul and R&B, Angie Stone, Dwele, and Faith Evans SAT, DEC, 22ND | 8PM @ [...]

Title: 2 Chainz Based on a T.R.U. Story Tour Location: Minglewood Hall, 1555 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104 Description: 2 Chainz Based on a T.R.U. Story Tour: Tickets On Sale at http://www.ticketbiscuit.com/MinglewoodHall/BuyTickets.aspx?EID=146764 and at Sammy’s Man of Fashion, 2703 South Perkins Road Start Time: 08:00 PM Date: 2012-11-21 With a reputation for one-upping the competition by arriving [...]

Hip-hop thrives in the city. The Brooks Museum’s Soul on Film series concludes on Thursday with B-boys at the Brooks, a celebration of street culture in the Rotunda, with breakdancing demonstrations, a cash bar, and music from Hot 107.1’s DJ Superman, followed by an 8 pm screening of Style Wars, one of the first hip-hop [...]

Neosoulville will be hosting SouLove on August 31, 2012 at The Rumba Room. A monthly event, it will be held the last Friday of every month. It will a 21+ crowd, and for those that love soul, funk, & hip-hop.  ”SouLove is…cool. soulful. hip hop. music. people. fly. your new monthly destination for live music & [...]

As history goes, on August 11, 1973, hip-hop was born in a rec-room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. What was just supposed to be another party turned into so much more when the DJ decided to extend a song’s break and let people rock the mic. After that night, many decided to test their skills [...]

If you missed Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest in theaters or when the Brooks had a screening, now’s your chance to catch it again.     The Seen, a cool new art/music/fashion studio hybrid will be showing the must-see Michael Rapaport directed documentary (I was lucky enough to view [...]

Over the years, SXSW has become one of the most anticipated musical & cultural festivals  At times, SXSW can seem a bit branded & commercialized (Jay-Z performing an AMEX sponsored concert? *scratches head* o…k*), but hip-hop artists like Skewby are the REAL reason the festival continues grow and inspire others in various stages of their [...]

Grammy-nominated due The Foreign Exchange, along with Zo! Sy Smith, Jeanne Jolly with live band will be performing tonight, November 15th at the Rumba Room (303 S. Main Street Memphis, TN ). Doors open at 8pm; tickets are $20.     The Foreign Exchange (comprised of Phonte & Nicolay) first came on the scene in 2004 with their debut [...]

This Thursday, November 10, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will be screening Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest as part of its Brooks Hours series. Directed by Michael Rapaport, the film takes a look at one of the most infulential groups in hip-hop; throughout 2008, Rapaport spent time traveling with Q-Tip, Phife [...]

This Wednesday, October 26, Grammy-nominated pop/rap artist, TYGA will stop by Booker T. Washington High School (715 S. Lauderdale Street) from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. as a part of his R.O.A.R. (Reach Out and Represent) Youth Empowerment Campaign and the La Belle Vie foundation’s BULU (Be U Love U) program. TYGA will be in [...]

Tonight, the Skull x Rose Tattoo Collective present Art Riot, a night of fine art, music, and tattoos.   On display will be work from visual artists including Chris Mays, Shannon Guibor, Darius B. Williams and Jason Rodriguez; there will be live music, free drinks, and tattoo & piercing appointents. The exhibition starts at 8:30 pm, party [...]

Rock for Love 5, the fifth-annual Church Health Center benefit concert, starts today, Aug 18 through Aug 21 at the Hi-Tone (1913 Poplar Ave).    RFL 5 will include a free show at 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19 at the Gazebo (near Goner Records, 2152 Young Ave.) and a free day party from 1p.m [...]