David Drake

After taking the United States by storm with his uneven-yet-lovable album "Dutty Rock" in 2003, dancehall star Sean Paul has returned with an excellent follow-up. Rather than burning the goodwill...

"Most Known Unknowns" features the decade-old group's trademark gothic, minor-key bombast and dark, often cartoonishly satanic imagery, the same qualities that helped these idiosyncratic club kings put Memphis on the...

While the United States explored the syncopated funk of hip-hop, much of Europe embraced the thumping daughter of disco, house music. Though house was born in Chicago, it was German...

Since the dawn of Southern hip-hop dominance, the New York rap world has been in a shuddering, slow-moving implosion. AZ's style fits in with rappers who are long past their...