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On this day in Hip Hop history, Chicago icon Common released his fifth studio album Electric Circus, a project that still divides fans but has earned lasting respect for its ambition and bravery.

The former site of an East Village haunt for experimental music groups and prominent singer-songwriters such as Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead, as well as Ike and Tina Turner, has been sold ...

An East Village property once home to “All Tomorrow’s Parties” is trading hands. “We were drawn to the asset for its dynamic location by Astor Place on the historic corridor of Saint Marks, as well as ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. On Dec. 10, 2002, Common (born Lonnie Rashid Lynn) released his fifth ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, Chicago rap icon Common released his fifth studio album Electric Circus. This album may have not been Common’s most commercially successful release, selling under ...

The Electric Circus nightclub was a drug-fueled, multicultural oasis of dance and creativity in 1960’s NYC, frequented by icons like Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, and Sly & the Family Stone. Against a ...

Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot are fighting in the captain’s tower while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers. The scene was the opening of the Electric Circus, the latest total ...

Teen nightclubs were something new on the local music scene in the 1970s. A new group of nightclubs got around issues with the legal drinking age in a couple of ways. One was by separating the room ...