The Academy busts out one of the biggest hip hop DJ lineups to ever grace the dance floors of Toronto. EPMD’s DJ Scratch and Da Beatminerz (Evil Dee and Mr. Walt) rocked the Revival bar to a packed house of heads. Unfortunately, it was on the same night as De La Soul, so I was [...]
Only the facade of the building still reminds us that this used to be a place of worship, but these days the Berkeley Church hosts a variety of events including last year’s amazing BCC show. What I came to see this past Sunday however was a DJ legend by the name of Q-Bert. He was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s on the Gemini mixer… Actually, I think this time, the A Tribe Called Quest DJ was using a Vestax model, but that didn’t stop the crowd from going wild for the veteran hip-hopper’s surprise appearance at the Rivoli during the July 13th Bump n’ Hustle night. Having spun just the night before [...]
Reviewed by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky
We know him well, we hip-hop fiends. And nearly every last one of us tingles with joy at the mere mention of his name. For a whole generation of die-hard partisans of the boom bap, the words “produced by Pete Rock” elate us like nothing else, and [...]
