Flavor Flav loves Red Lobster. Last week — not long after the Public Enemy MC announced that he’d be sponsoring the US Women’s Water Polo Team — he decided he was going to help rescue Red Lobster. Now, he appears to have been hired as the restaurant chain’s official hype man, voicing a new commercial for their...

Kathleen Hanna’s memoir Rebel Girl: My Life As A Feminist Punk is out today, and she recently stopped by Amoeba Records to participate in an episode of their What’s In My Bag? series. She picked up records by Bruce Springsteen, Public Enemy, the Sugarcubes, Santigold, and more, and she also raved about Selena Gomez and Demi L...

You’d think at age 74, after more than five decades of fame, Bruce Springsteen would have already met all the other famous people. But no, there are still some fresh celebrity encounters left for the Boss. For instance, Flavor Flav was present at the E Street Band’s show Friday in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena. Someone captured...

Once upon a time, theatrical British goth-rock greats the Sisters Of Mercy were a big-time touring act in the United States. In 1991, the year of the first Lollapalooza tour, the Sisters headlined their own alt-rock package tour; it also featured Public Enemy, Gang Of Four, Warrior Soul, and Young Black Teenagers. In recent years, the Sisters Of...

The politically charged hip-hop group were periodically in conflict with law enforcement in the late 1980s The post Chuck D says “Public Enemy were harassed by the police more than anyone in music” appeared first on NME.