Audra Schroeder

Are you angry yet, folks? Are you good and hopped up after the presidential debates? What the trio of confrontations between George and John (no, not Harrison and Lennon) needed was mood music. Like when Bush suggested that college-educated men and women who can't find jobs should go back to...

Teedra Moses grew up studying her mother, a successful gospel singer on the church revival circuit. She grew up listening to gospel on the radio in her mother's car and jamming to Luther Vandross. Later, she graduated to every young girl's first love: Prince. Moses studied Prince songs like calculus...

It was the fall or winter of 1995, and I was standing in front of the stage at the Edge in Fort Lauderdale, being throttled by a throng of sweaty, mohawked kids while trying in vain to chain-smoke the pack of cigarettes I had stolen from my mom. It was...

Talib Kweli has been called a revolutionary, a philosopher, a teacher, a social critic who waxes poetic on the black community's travails. While he doesn't necessarily accept these labels, his latest CD, The Beautiful Struggle, most definitely is a solid foundation for this talented MC. Kweli's struggle doesn't feature the...

Go ahead and say heavy metal musicians are arrogant assholes, dirty longhairs, and social outcasts who live with their parents and worship Satan, sniff glue, and set fires. It may even be true. But according to Alex Suarez, guitarist for the instrumental metal quartet Centipede, they're "just normal-looking dudes playing...