This is a late one since I had too many events with actual reviews to post first. These photos are from the same event as the Little Brother shots I posted a while back, only at night. Unfortunately, ?uestlove didn’t make it to the show, but the awesome folks over at REMG more than made [...]
Written by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky
I don’t really know Jesse Ohtake. Before the night of Saturday the 24th, I don’t think I’d ever met Jesse Ohtake. I knew the name ‘Jesse Ohtake’—enough reputable cats an’ dames in the T-Dot rap scene scream his name that it sorta occurred to me I oughta [...]
Written by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky
Here’s the thing about Hip-Hop Karaoke: Walk into the Boat on the second Thursday of any given month, plonk down five bucks, and you’re bound to see a concert that would ordinarily have been the highlight of your year. An idea originally conceived well over ten years [...]
Written by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky
Dear God I hope Down With Webster don’t read this.
For denizens of virtually any locale that doesn’t boast the initials N, Y, and C—hell, probably even in NYC—going to local rap shows is a little like enduring a production of “Romeo & Juliet” put on by fourth-graders: [...]
I finally got to check out one of the bands that excited me most in the last few years - Little Brother. Phonte and Big Pooh, sans recently departed band-mate and one of the hottest producers in the game today, 9th Wonder, took the stage at the Rogers Picnic two Sunday’s ago at the Historic [...]
Reviewed by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky
State Theatre is one of the most elegantly designed venues in Toronto, giving off an air of swank after-hours élan, with dark plush seats on a raised level and a wide-open, spacious dance floor. And the acts they’ve been booking sure know how to get said floor [...]
My friends at Never Forgive Action celebrated 3 Years High And Rising as the old-school hip-hop monthly to be at in Toronto. More or Les, Dalia and Numeric joined Toronto locals Paul E. Lopes and Mike Tull of the Bump N’ Hustle fame to make it a night to remember at their new home, [...]
Lots of Wikipedia schooling today for everyone. I didn’t end up covering the entire Four Elements Festival, but a concert celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Wild Style can’t be missed. D.I.T.C’s Lord Finesse with a surprise appearance by DJ Roc Raida of the X-Ecutioners doing some crazy turntablist solo AND duo action (Yes, Finesse can [...]
Heads in Toronto gotta recognize that there is a reason that DJ Cash Money was inducted into the DMC-Technics Hall of Fame with the title “The World’s Greatest DJ.” The man can spin! He put on a wicked show at the new weekly The Fever with none other than Russell Peters opening for him. Who [...]
Original Gangster Ice-T along with long-time DJ Evil-E and with no less than four local opening acts was at the undersold Phoenix this past Thursday. As low attendance as the show turned out to be, Ice-T didn’t let the crowd down and rocked the house with excellent delivery of all of his old hits and [...]
