Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

In the mid-1980s, Ron G. became the master of the blend tape. By putting together R&B and hip-hop instrumentals, he and a DJ named Hot Day (whose "Hot Day Master Mix" married New Edition to Public ...

Urgent evacuation warnings as wildfires and flash flood threat hit West Coast Here are the four Republicans who helped force ...

A great beat is a game changer. Period. Let’s just keep it a buck: Beats and melodies have outweighed lyrics in the eyes of most for a while and with attention spans becoming shorter and shorter, it ...

Montreal producer-of-the-moment Kaytranada continues his tradition of slyly Nas-honoring nomenclature (his original name was Kaytradamus) with a new beat tape, Instrumental Hip Hop Is Dead, debuted ...

Chicago producer Lapgan brings hip-hop that samples broadly from the South Asian diaspora to Schubas. Credit: Atif Ateeq The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't ...

Mike WiLL Made-It shared his beat highlights from this year with his annual end-of-the-year instrumental mixtape. By Natalie Maher Mike WiLL Made-It has had himself a year, and he’s here to remind us ...

At 20, Dom Okon has made history with his fourth album Mystified, debuting at #34 on the UK iTunes Pop Chart. Known as “The King of Instrumental Pop,” he’s now the youngest American artist with four ...

On a cool evening last Friday, Durham’s CCB plaza swelled with members of North Carolina’s creative community; the four elements of hip-hop all present. Dozens of emcees, DJs, breakdancers, and ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Your Move MKE's Hip Hop Chess Club is set to take place this weekend at the Mitchell Street Branch Library Makerspace, located at 906 W. Historic Mitchell St. The event will be ...