When the excitement over Detox started up again last year, Dr. Dre even teased his next, next album — an instrumental project called The Planets, with songs inspired by the “personalities of each ...

Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

It’s a well-established fact that tuning into “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” turns the average person into a superhuman academic whose powers of concentration are rivaled only by ...

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 ...

2016 felt like a breakout year for television shows and documentaries about hip hop. From The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann’s over the top retelling of rap’s early days, to the scholarly four-part ...