Above: “You Got Me” in Japan earlier this year. By Joel Francis The Kansas City Star Underground artist Girl Talk has generated some buzz with his second album, which layers Public Enemy over Heart, mashes M.I.A. with the Cranberries and mixes “C’mon N Ride It (The Train)” into “99 Tears.” What Girl Talk does on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Roots’
Review: For The Roots It’s All In The Music
Posted in Concert review, Kansas City Star, tagged Back To Rockville, hip hop, music, The Roots on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Rage Rocks the Bells
Posted in Concert review, tagged Black Star, hip hop, Mos Def, music, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Rock the Bells, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan on August 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Public Enemy, Black Star, The Roots and Wu-Tang fight the Battle of the Bay in San Francisco By Joel Francis The Giants may have been out of town, but that didn’t stop the hits from pouring across McCovey Cove near ATT Stadium when the Rock the Bells festival landed in San Francisco last week. It was [...]

