The venerable Stax Records celebrates its 50th anniversary, and HDNet is there to capture it for this special concert premiere, Sunday February 17th at 8:30 p.m. ET. Hosted by Public Enemy's Chuck D and Randy Jackson of American Idol, the lineup includes Angie Stone, the Reddings, Booker T. and the MGs, Mavis Staples, Isaac Hayes, and more. Related posts: Playing Your Song: Detroit Concert Venues...
I've been answering email today with a bunch of Isaac Hayes songs on rotation from the Stax years. Kept coming back to this one, and stumbled on a 1969 television performance with spectacularly mod staging. Walk on by that large pastel brick with the embedded mirror-donut! The audio in this YouTube clip stinks, but you can preview a better streaming version here. The full, funky glory of the extended...
Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind relies on samples from both Isaac Hayes' "Breakthrough" and The Moments' "Love on a Two-Way Street." You can hear the originals, and dig into more sample science, at the WhoSampled web site. Started by a part-time DJ, the site does a great job of showing you exactly where the reconstructed moments in popular songs come from. YouTube videos of each song...
Americans for Prosperity -Illinois added two more congressional candidates to their growing list of Climate Tax opposers Wednesday -- 8th CD GOP candidate Joe Walsh and 2nd CD candidate Isaac Hayes. Other Illinois candidates who've signed include: U.S. Representative and...
Cyrus Chestnut goes solo with a gorgeous performance inspired by his childhood in the church where his parents served as the music directors. Any kid who chooses Thelonious Monk’s Greatest Hits as his or her all-important first album purchase will certainly be destined to a life behind the 88 keys. Such is the case of Cyrus Chestnut, a man once hailed as “the best jazz pianist of his generation”...
PAUL KITAGAKI JR. pkitagaki@sacbee.com Assistant coach Leonard "Truck" Robinson, a former Phoenix Suns star, has helped the Kings improve from 29th in the NBA in rebounding last season to eighth. Leonard Robinson didn't like the nickname given to him by fellow rookie Dennis DuVal while playing for the Washington Bullets in 1974. DuVal had recently seen the movie "Truck Turner"...
Enuff explains how, back in ‘98, Isaac Hayes asked his opinion about whether he should allow Jay to sample “The Theme From Shaft” for what would eventually become “Reservoir Dogs”. He reasons that just maybe if he had told Isaac something like, “nah, don’t do it, Jay-Z’s a chump”, the song may have never happened. [...]
Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett,...
Baile funk, aka funk carioca or bailes funk, is a good example of how dance music conventions can be and often are shaped by the people and for the people. The DJ doesn't necessarily define the sound but does nurture and develop it. And, mash it up with the sound of other cultures thousands of miles away that share similar experiences. In this case, that experience was using the spirit of music and...
Filed under: Movies , Television , News , Celeb Updates , Magazines and Newspapers Pam Grier will return to television early next year...and will be playing a bad guy. Well, a bad girl. Again! The CW announced that the 60 year-old 1970s Blaxploitation film icon is joining the cast of the hit drama series 'Smallville,' which is based on the DC Comics Superman series. The savvy casting choice is the...
Black moderates and conservatives weigh in on today's memorial service for the 13 soldiers who were killed when Nadal Malik Hasan, a U.S. army major who was actively reaching out to Al Qaeda, went on a shooting rampage last week at Fort Hood military base: Sophia Nelson, a moderate pundit in Virginia, writes on Facebook : "Very appropriate remarks from President Obama, and very powerful imagery...
Due to some top luck, I found myself at the Stax Museum in Memphis on Friday night. It's essentially a re-construction of the original building with a Brit School type music academy attached, and they have periodic evenings when the school band play a concert in the studio (a meticulous replica of the original in the original place). Friday was one of those nights, and its no exaggeration to say that...
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Cake Man Raven The Brooklyn Paper reports that thieves took a TV from Cake Man Raven , who has baked for the likes of 50 Cent, Isaac Hayes, and Spike Lee. Strange to steal a TV from a bakery, but nowhere near as weird as the guy who, according to WLTX , went into a Taco Bell in Haverstraw, New York, and demanded some money at gunpoint, only to then walk into the manager’s office and ask for...
Now that the Halloween Countdown is over it's time to move back into a more normal posting routine but instead of posting music this week I am going to post links to some of my favorite music blogs from the past month or so. A Closet of Curiosities - lots of "world" music and other eclectics (last three posts: Karaikudi Subramaniam and Trichy Sankaran - Sunada, Eduard Brunner - Dal niente,...
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