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The hip hop community is still mourning the loss of Pimp C on Tuesday. The news spread like wildfire across blogs and other web-based information sources. Hip hop artists and Houstonians alike packed the phone lines of G-Man's afternoon show on 97.9 The Box. Tribute videos and compilations started popping up on the Net Tuesday afternoon. The first video above is a compilation of photos set to Lil Flip's Pimp C Tribute song. The second...

Most are familiar with HD (high-definition) television, which will become the standard for TV over the next few years, but not everyone knows about HD radio. At the beginning of the year, Clear Channel Communications debuted HD radio for some of their local frequencies. More recently, non-profit KUHF premiered their HD frequency. The supposed draw to HD radio is CD-quality sound and more format choices. We listened to a few of these online, and discovered...

A group of ministers and community leaders gathered in front of the offices of 97.9 The Box yesterday to protest the station's having played a rap song with sexually explicit lyrics Saturday night. The station claims its CD of Twista's remix of "I'mN Luv (Wit a Stripper)" was marked by the record company as being OK to play on the air, but when the DJ popped it in, it turns out it was the version...

Arbitron, the company that most radio stations use to determine ratings and listenership, announced that Houston will be the first market to use the new electronic survey system, the Portable People Meter (which reminds us of Disney World’s old PeopleMover or even Peter the Meter Reader). For more than 40 years, Arbitron has been sending out paper diaries similar to the one in the picture. The company would randomly flood the market with these...

So you’re back at work after a weekend of debauchery and trying to keep your New Year’s resolutions intact. Hopefully one of those resolutions was to see more live music – we’re happy to help you with that: Thursday The Wainwrights are one musical family – not only do you have Loudon, but his kids Martha and Rufus. Sloan Wainwright, the woman Rufus calls “auntie,” brings her husky voiced folk to the Duck. You’ll...