Posts in: Music
- The snap music backlash
- UPDATE: Check out this Killer Mike track from the “I Pledge Allegiance” mixtape. Ouch! Visit the site Laffy Taffy Rots Your Teeth for more. Check the video “Everything is Different Now,” which is actually a hot ode to traditional hip-hop. You can also download and pass around the 10-track album mixtape.* Think of it as freeware [...] [9 Sep 2006]
- Atlanta, GA: Montreux Jazz Festival, Labor Day Weekend.
- Okay, Friday night, the Underground is officially the place to be. Why? The FREE Montreux Jazz Festival. Montreux has been missing in action from the Atlanta festival scene for a few years now. But it’s back this year. But let me tell you why you just really, really need to go Friday night: Joi and Anthony David [...] [29 Aug 2006]
- D-Nice is a photographer? WTH?
- I see I need to start paying more attention to things and people. One of my childhood crushes and rapper of one of my favorite jams (”Takin out you suckas and you don’t know how I did it) is also an amazing photographer / photo blogger. And he’s a fellow Black Weblog Awards finalist. So [...] [29 Aug 2006]
- “Broken Boy Soldiers” - The Raconteurs
- Okay, so one morning I woke up and the TV was on MTV. And I heard something about “Jack White” — as in the dude from the White Stripes, who would be my favorite rockers if I actually paid attention to rock music. Then I saw the video credits. Something about “Steady As She [...] [2 Aug 2006]
- “La Ghriba: La Kahena Remixed” - Cheb i Sabbah
- North African dance music CD La Kahena has been glued to my CD player for a while now. So I got all geeked up when I found out that a remix album was available. Now that I’ve listened to it, I can put away some of that original excitement. It won’t stay in my iPod [...] [21 Jul 2006]