Atmosphere struck gold yet again with their album 'Southsiders', which recently dropped on Rhymesayers Entertainment and landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard album sales chart. After working together ...

IF EYEDEA COULD go back in time and redo his life, he’d probably be erasing things that every fan of underground hip-hop associates with him: the mastery of battle emceeing, the win at HBO’s Blaze ...

Not all bands can excel in every kind of venue, as those who attended the August 14 Atmosphere show at Red Rocks discovered during the Eyedea & Abilities set. The Minnesota pair, whose collective ...

St. Paul rapper Micheal “Eyedea” Larsen died Sunday morning of unexplained causes. He was 28. As half of the hip-hop duo Eyedea and Abilities, Larsen released several albums for Minneapolis label ...

When Mike Larsen was five years old, cars or buildings weren’t just the playthings of his imagination—he wanted to know how to construct them and would often make modest attempts in his backyard.

This Minneapolis duo has been a team since their teens, when DJ Abilities left home, and Eyedea’s mom put him up in their basement, where their partnership flourished. Eyedea began competing in battle ...