Remember, for all its old-world charm, France is about as cosmopolitan as it gets - the contemporary French pop scene overflows with urgent, urban sounds. Rapper Abd al Malik unleashes a movie f …

The face of dance music is constantly changing. Look away for a minute and when you look back, it's a completely different musical landscape. So if you want to make sure you're moving to beats that are …

When you feel like you've heard (and danced) it all, where can you uncover more fresh, piping-hot club tracks? Look no further, because here's where the rising stars of dance lay down their claim to ho …

With their bilingual lyrics, the initial wave of early 90's LA-based rappers like Cypress Hill and Mellow Man Ace opened the door for Latin hip-hop with such classics as "Insane In the Brain" and "Ment …

Let's get one thing straight: while the accompanying playlist is rooted in the scrappy rhyme schemes of rap's underground scene, that doesn't mean it's any less likely to wreck your woofers than Kanye  …

Wondering how People Under the Stairs and Hieroglyphics earned four spots in our Deep Cuts? That's easy - they're two of Cali's most criminally overlooked hip-hop acts - pass-the-mic types who pay trib …

Back in the early '80s, a quiet storm washed across both the radio dial and the very heart of jazz itself - a new-ish sound that cobbled together bits of R&B, funk, pop, and the lighter elements of fus …

In Next Steps, we took a little tour around the globe, but in Deep Cuts we're coming right back to where it started, with perhaps the sexiest instrument in all of jazz - the sax. Dave Koz leads off wit …

Welcome to the gritty, blood-soaked subgenre of gangsta rap, an invite-only realm where beats drop like customized Impalas and singles pop like semi-automatics. Realer than reality TV and nastier than  …