The Root: It’s been a long, slow dance between the United States and Fela Anikulapo Kuti, one that started 40 years ago when the Nigerian musician first toured America and is finally picking up tempo today, with the Broadway show Fela! opening to...

inthemix: The DJing community and the greater dance music scene mourns the loss of a clubbing staple today. No, Steve Aoki hasn’t hung up his record bag, but rather news has emerged that iconic turntable manufacturers Technics will be stopping...

Clash Music: The aspiring rock star’s indispensable guide to surviving a life in music, with advice from those who know best. This issue, the punk impresario, anarchic mastermind and former Sex Pistols manager imparts his lifelong learned...

The New York Times: …over the next few decades Springsteen would become one of the professors in my second education. In album after album he assigned a new course in my emotional curriculum. This second education doesn’t work the way the...

Floor – Below & Beyond $249.99 We have entered the land of the absurd. Robotic Empire’s box set for Floor includes 10 12“s (each with a different color of vinyl), a 7”, eight CD’s, and a 32-page booklet in a cloth-bound box. (The box set is...