The Kitka ensemble winter show, WinterFest at Chabot Space and Science Center, Liam O’Donogue playing funky beats at Eli’s, and more.

DJ Quik's son has been found guilty of murdering a man in 2022. On Thursday (Dec. 4), a jury convicted David Marvin Blake Jr. of one count of second-degree murder and one count of shooting from a ...

DJ Quik’s son, David Marvin Blake Jr., has been convicted of second-degree murder. The incident in question happened in 2022 in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, California, where 33-year-old Julio ...

A son of rapper DJ Quik was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder for the shooting death of a man in Downey just over 3 1/2 years ago. David Marvin Blake Jr., who will turn 31 on Friday, was ...

It took decades of pestering, but golden-era hip-hop heads finally got their wish. The duo’s synergy has been obvious since the Queensbridge rapper’s 1994 debut, Illmatic, which features three ...

Nas and DJ Premier have officially delivered Light Years, their long-awaited collaborative album released through Mass Appeal. The project unites two hip hop giants whose creative bond helped define ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. How many single-use tools do you have cluttering your garage right now? If you look around, there's probably a string trimmer gathering dust ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

If we needed any more proof that the album isn't dead, 2025 was it. On this episode, Stephen Thompson is joined by Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen to run through 12 dazzling albums that stuck with ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

One wrinkle that the last round of labor negotiations brought to MLB was the establishment of the MLB Draft Lottery. Essentially, the draft order is not dictated solely by where a team finished the ...