This week Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jill Scott announced the dates for a summer 2015 tour. The 25 date tour will start on July 13th in Pittsburgh, PA and wrap up August 28th in Phoenix, AZ. Jilly will be performing new music from her upcoming album as well as many of her classic hits.

The world premiere production of "Marley," the first original musical based on both the life and music of Bob Marley, began rehearsals March 24 at Center Stage, the State Theater of Maryland. "Marley" will run May 6 to June 14 and will star Holland's "The Voice" contestant Mitchell Brunings in the lead role of Bob Marley.

In the late 90's in Los Angeles, a weekly hip-hop event where MCs, DJs, Breakers and Graffiti writers could come togther was born in the shape of a Sunday night club called Elements.

Jamaican dancehall artist Glendon "Admiral" Bailey was recently hit with multiple fraud-related charges while attempting to renew his passport. Bailey is scheduled to appear in the Corporate Area Criminal Court in Kingston, Jamaica on March 5th.

What happens when founding member of the Pharcyde, Slimkid3, and Jurassic 5 DJ/producer DJ Nu-Mark go record shopping?

So Rugged Soul Records' DJ Rob A and legendary emcee Masta Ace got together and music happened. And it's good. The digital album, "Put to Paper" dropped today and is now available through Rob A's Bandcamp, iTunes and Amazon and features explicit and clean versions of the title track, another Rob A solo track ("Still Have Strenf") as well as instrumentals for both. Back in the cassette days we called this a "Maxi Single", but I digress.