This is a brilliant tour-de-force musical theater production, at once deceptively simple in the coming-of-age storyline yet highly complex and nuanced in its integrations of music, theater and...

What has always exemplified the Jazzmatazz series is Guru 's ability to bring together jazz legends like Branford Marsalis, Donald Byrd, Ramsey Lewis, and...

The Resident is a column by writer and gal-about-town, Mawuse Ziegbe . Every week she'll let you into her kinda glamorous but-mostly-goofy world, and the...

The sexy groove of song "Honey" by producer 9th Wonder gets paired with Erykah Badu at her finest theatrics in the video co-directed with creative veteran Chris Robinson (aka Mr. Roboto). As she...

For 5 non-stop hours, Sunday night, January 13th, cavernous Webster Hall’s three floors in New York City were shaking underfoot with ecstatic, mesmerized, cheering, clapping, dancing crowds as...

Giant Step Tastemakers, who work in the music, fashion, film, design and media industries, are an integral part of our community, sharing their opinions with those around them. Throughout the...

Following in the annual Giant Step tradition, each one of us from the office has picked out our favorites of the year. Whether it's music, movies, video games or books, we felt...

Indie/pop act Yoav, who sounds like a cross between Beck, Jeff Buckley and Bjork, will tour America with Tori Amos (until December 16th), continuing on with performances in his native Cape Town....

Friday night at Hiro Ballroom, the elusive Swedish duo of Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson, also known as Koop, roared back to New York to treat a packed house their unique brand of kicky and...

Sick and tired of playing games with another label, The Discolobos took their latest album and walked, making the title The Thieves’ Machine all the more appropriate. The Thieves’...