The Digable Planets didn’t have any grand scheme to introduce a radically new style of hip-hop when they dropped their seminal jazz-laced, funk-resurrecting debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of ...

The interview features Craig Irwin, also known as Doodlebug, from the pioneering hip-hop trio Digable Planets. The conversation begins with a discussion about the group's influential debut single, ...

These days, Ishmael Butler is very busy with his Seattle art-rock project Shabazz Palaces; he just released the new mini-album Exotic Birds Of Prey. But some of us know Butler better for his old group ...

The interview features Craig Irwin, also known as Doodlebug, from the pioneering hip-hop trio Digable Planets. The conversation begins with a discussion about the group's influential debut single, ...

Digable Planets, the hip-hop trio most notable for its 1993 Grammy-winning single, "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)," performed at the Marin County Fair at San Rafael's Marin Center on Sunday evening ...

Land of Talk‘s 2006 debut EP, Applause Cheer Boo Hiss, has just gotten an expanded reissue which adds three songs to its original seven, and then includes a bonus disc of acoustic versions of the ...

Grammy-winning hip-hop trio Digable Planets headlines the Jazz & Blossoms Park Jam this Sunday in D.C. WTOP caught up with co-founder Craig “Doodlebug” Irving ahead of the outdoor concert in Franklin ...

Digable Planets are hitting the road to celebrate their seminal 1993 debut. On Wednesday (May 31), the legendary East Coast trio announced their upcoming Reachin 30th Anniversary Tour,’ which begins ...

Thirty years ago, three outer-space insects crashed down on Earth to “resurrect the funk” — or so goes the story on Digable Planets’ Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), one of the most ...

Sometimes an album or two is enough. The Sex Pistols landed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame courtesy of just one release, “Never Mind the Bollocks.” Guns N’ Roses’ output, which earned the notorious ...

"Blowing Down" "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" "9th Wonder (Blackitolism)" "The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug" "Jettin' " When Digable Planets released "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" in ...