Music Photos Downtown Music Fest Brings Black Hippy, Earl Sweatshirt to NYC Check out photos of Purity Ring, Trash Talk, Kendrick Lamar and more. 05.13.13MTV Hive
Interviews Fabolous on ‘Loso’s Way 2′ Delays and Being a Cool Dad The Brooklyn rapper explains why it took three years to complete his new record. 05.02.13Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Essays The Best Thing About LL Cool J’s ‘Authentic’: No “Accidental Racist” The worst thing about the rapper’s 13th album is literally everything else about it. 05.01.13Jeff Weiss
Q&A John Baizley of Baroness on Recovery, Fear and What’s Next for the Metal Band Hive checks in with the guitarist ahead of their new tour. 04.30.13John Gentile
Missed Connections Snoop Lion’s Beat Mastermind, Diplo Douglas Wolk highlights some of Diplo’s best production work. 04.24.13Douglas Wolk
Features What Happened to Emo? Hive takes a snapshot of pop punk in 2013 with Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, Warped Tour’s Kevin Lyman, New Found Glory and others. 04.24.13Devon Maloney
Hive Five Five Degrees of Phoenix Separation Here’s a handful of the most crucial characters in the Phoenix universe. 04.24.13Jim Allen
