The Get Known Radio News Archive

Every weekday, the editorial desk publishes a running index of the hip-hop, R&B, and electronic music stories that actually matter — pulled from the press we trust, vetted by a person, and linked straight back to the publisher who reported it. We do not republish anyone's article. We do not rewrite headlines. We index, contextualize, and point you to the source.

What the archive is

The news archive is the running daily feed visible on the front page of getknownradio.com, with a permanent archive viewable here. Each entry is a short kicker — usually two or three sentences — followed by a direct link to the publisher's full story. The goal is not to summarize the news for you; the goal is to find you the worthwhile reporting faster than scrolling through ten different sites would.

If you came here looking for the live, interactive version of the archive — filterable by source, with the most recent stories at the top — load the live stream and front page and use the News Archive tab. The interactive version pulls in new entries every eight hours throughout the day. This page exists so the archive's purpose, sources, and editorial methodology can be read and understood without running JavaScript or interacting with a single-page app.

Where the stories come from

The desk monitors a fixed list of publications that the editor reads daily. The list rotates slowly — we add a publication when they consistently break or report on stories we care about, and we drop one when they stop. Current core sources include:

• XXL — the long-running hip-hop monthly's web edition, with a particularly strong feed for emerging artists and the New York / Atlanta / LA news beats.
• Rap-Up — fast and reliable for breaking releases, official video drops, and announcement news.
• HotNewHipHop — broader cultural coverage, sneaker and luxury angle, and a wide tour and beef beat.
• Pitchfork — for the longer review and feature side of the conversation, particularly when it touches the electronic and R&B records we cover on rotation.
• A rotating list of independent outlets — DJBooth, NPR Music, regional zines, artist-published Substacks, and the better hip-hop podcast newsletters. These do not feed automatically; the editor adds individual stories from them when a story warrants it.

If a publication you respect is not in that list, that is not a judgment on their work — it is a function of what the editor reads regularly. Tips and recommendations go to the editorial desk at [email protected].

How a story gets in

Three filters, in order:

1. Subject fit. Does it concern hip-hop, R&B, electronic music, or the artists and economy around those genres? If the answer is no, it is out, no matter how big the publication is or how loud the headline is.
2. Reporting quality. If the story is a rewrite of someone else's reporting with no value added, we link to the original instead. If both are just press releases reformatted, we usually skip it entirely.
3. Worth the click. The desk asks one question for every story considered: will a working musician or a serious listener be glad they spent two minutes reading this? If no, it does not go in.

The result is a short, dense feed — usually between fifteen and forty entries per day — that the editor considers a reasonable approximation of what is worth reading in the genre that day. It is opinionated by design.

What we do not do

We do not republish full articles, even in part. Each entry on the archive is short editorial commentary plus a link to the original publisher. We do not host scraped copy, paraphrased rewrites, or "summaries" intended to substitute for the source.

We also do not run sponsored entries. No publication, label, artist, or PR firm can pay to be added to the news archive. The editorial desk has not been approached with a serious offer, but the answer is no in advance.

Finally, we do not auto-generate entries. The desk uses an RSS aggregator to surface candidates, but every entry that goes live has been read and tagged by the editor.

How often the archive refreshes

The desk re-runs the candidate sweep every eight hours throughout the day. In practice that means three refreshes — early morning Eastern, midday Eastern, and evening Eastern. Big breaking-news days get an additional manual pass; quiet weekend days sometimes get only two.

Entries are not deleted from the archive once they are added, except in cases where the underlying article is taken down or the editor learns the story was factually wrong. Where we make corrections, we leave a brief note in place of the original entry rather than deleting the page outright.

For artists, labels, and PR

If you want a story about your release covered in the news archive, the most reliable path is to make sure it ran in one of the publications above and then send the link to [email protected]. The desk does sometimes add an entry from a tip, but it has to clear the same three filters above.

If you want your release on the actual radio rotation rather than just in the news archive, that is a separate process — see submit music.

For listeners

The simplest way to use the archive is to keep the front page open in a tab while the live stream plays. New entries appear automatically through the day. If you want a quieter version, the editorial column publishes one substantial, opinionated take on a single story every weekday at noon Eastern — that is the news desk's own writing rather than a feed of other people's.

Questions, story tips, or sources we should add: [email protected].