Sacred to Secular: How Robert Randolph Brought the Church to the Blues

Picture a teenaged boy seated inside the House of God Church in Orange, New Jersey. No radio. No record player. No blues, no rock, no funk. Just the hum of a pedal steel guitar and the swell of gospel worship filling the room. That boy was Robert Randolph, and for a long time, that room […]

Atmosphere Speaks with the BandWagon About Their 8th Studio Album

By the sound of the new single, “Bitter,” on Atmosphere’s eighth official studio album, Southsiders, you’d never guess it almost didn’t make the record. In fact, it started off as a gag between Minneapolis-natives Sean Daley (Slug) and DJ/producer Anthony Davis (Ant).

Artist Profile: The Grouch and Eligh

Recently there has been an influx of hip-hop artists outspoken about their battles with addiction and subsequent recovery. Macklemore got real on the track “Otherside,” while Eligh of The Living Legends devoted an entire album to his recovery process in 2010’s Grey Crow.