Like any artform, music is at its best when it refuses to stand still; rather extending branches from its foundations in perpetual exploration for something as yet undefined. Music is also a ...

In general, I try not to learn too much about new movies before I see them; I like to protect the unpredictability and promise one feels in the dark theater just before the movie begins. The only ...

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Austin, Texas producer Eric Dingus has put together a chopped and screwed compilation of rap records that we've come to know and love in 2013.

Few American cities are as musically intertwined as Houston and Memphis. Think back to Duke-Peacock Records -- a label founded in Memphis and moved to Houston that featured Memphis singers Junior ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A few weeks ago, writer Jon Caramanica wrote a perceptive piece in the ...

The “chopped and screwed” sound has become such a staple of hip-hop that most fans probably don’t even wonder where the slowed-down, stop-start sonic approach came from — and thus, the late DJ Screw, ...

Nicholas Britell and director Barry Jenkins combined classical music with hip-hop production techniques to create the music for the acclaimed film. The film "Moonlight" has received a lot of awards ...

Last night, after all was said and done — you might've heard about a late-in-the-evening mix-up — Moonlight was deservingly crowned last year's best film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...

After 2009’s ground-breaking debut Jewellery, East London trio Micachu & The Shapes return with Chopped & Screwed, an album created from a concert they performed with the prestigious London ...