Music
“Man, this joint ain’t nothin’,” says a chuckling B-Real of the rap trio Cypress Hill, taking a deep drag from his marijuana cigarette.
March 22, 1992
The production manager of the music group New Edition was jailed in Pittsburgh Monday on suspicion of killing the security manager for a rival band in a dispute over time on stage.
July 11, 1989
California
The incident in Northern California comes amid mass shootings that have killed more than two dozen people in the state in less than a week.
Jan. 24, 2023
World & Nation
A young neo-Nazi accused of the arson deaths of a Turkish grandmother and two girls tried to kill himself Wednesday by slashing his wrists, authorities said.
Dec. 3, 1992
Ex-Israeli soccer player Lior Asulin was among the more than 260 people killed by Hamas militants at the Supernova music festival near the Gaza border.
Oct. 9, 2023
SXSW 2014: When music, tragedy intersect, from Altamont to Austin
March 13, 2014
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Detectives said Monday that they were pressing hard to establish whether the drive-by killing of rapper Notorious B.I.G. was part of a deadly grudge between rival groups in rap music.
March 11, 1997
Given the still-bracing excellence of the band’s music, it’s never a bad time to turn one’s thoughts to Bikini Kill, the pioneering riot grrrl group that blazed a trail out of Olympia, Wash., in the early 1990s.
Nov. 15, 2012
Read this: SPIN’s revealing Bikini Kill oral history