.GT Staff

For the past two years, there has been a lot of talk in defense of ska. The musical genre that was a brief cash grab for the major labels of the ’90s has much deeper roots in the worlds of punk, anti-racist activism and Jamaican culture...

FRIDAY HIP HOP LYRICS BORN Lyrics Born is a legend. Born in Tokyo, the Japanese and Jewish American rapper made a name for himself in the Bay...

THURSDAY HIP HOP BRAVO THE BAGCHASER Just like his name implies, Bravo the Bagchaser is out to get that green: money, cannabis and everything in between. Prior...

The New York-based trio Pickle Mafia describes its music–with tongue firmly planted in cheek–as “arena jazz fusion.” But that description is more indicative of the band’s sense of humor...

If it’s possible to be too fun, Say She She wins the award... Often clad in funky black and white with bejeweled Gogo boots, these women are expert vocalists, crafting tight, shimmering harmonies...

What do you get when you cross belly dancing with dubstep? That’s one of many questions a Beats Antique show answers. At the Catalyst on Saturday

Texas blues virtuoso Carolyn Wonderland, who officially joined Alligator Records as the iconic Chicago label’s first female guitarist in its fifty-year history, brings the blues to Moe's Alley on Tuesday.

Twenty years into her jazz career, NYC-based vocalist/pianist Champian Fulton has long since mastered the crucial art of putting her own idiosyncratic spin on standards from the jazz canon. You can hear echoes of the singer Fulton has cited as a primary influence – Sarah Vaughan – in her richly textured, self-assured vocalizing. Earlier this year...