The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Bill T. Jones has done it again. Globally recognized as icon and genius, he might have taken up the artist’s equivalent of daily golf and residency in a comfy condo in a Sunshine State. He might have lectured here, taught...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Mean Fiddler and Elastic Artists presents THE STEVE REID ENSEMBLE 9th November 2009 @ The Jazz Cafe 5, Parkway, Camden, London, NW1 7PG 14 from seetickets.co.uk Doors: 7pm The Steve Reid Ensemble are set to play an exclusive London show at The Jazz Cafe on Monday 9th November. The cult free-Jazz drummer and percussionist has an illustrious career working with the likes of Miles Davies, James Brown,...
HipHopDX.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
?uestlove reaches out to Jay-Z and Will Smith for "Fela!" Broadway play, while Ludacris and Estelle give tribute to Otis Redding.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Strut 'Inspiration Information' series has been, on the whole, a pretty good. Effectively, it's a chance for cool oldsters to team up with hip young(ish) producers and musicians. If you search our lovely website, we've reviewed the entire series......
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Since posts only stay on the front page for a day at most now and not all of you are regular readers and I'm on wack-ass Blogger so there's not a great way to access old posts easily, here's a quiick recap of the best posts from the past week: New Lil Wayne - No Ceilings mixtape . NEW official download link with 4 bonus tracks!!!! Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys - “Empire State Of Mind” Music Video...
Undercover Black Man (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Are you into Fela Kuti ? Or did you never get around to exploring the prodigious recorded output of Nigeria’s king of Afrobeat? Now comes news that Knitting Factory Records will remaster and reissue Fela’s entire catalog over the next 18 months. Those people are on a mission from God. I got into Fela back when I was buying most of my music on cassette . Time for the upgrade. Meanwhile,...
naijablog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Fela is far more celebrated in public culture in Brasil than he is in Nigeria, as these publicity images for various events around the country celebrating Fela this month show (only the Kuti family celebrated the anniversary of his death this month via the Felabration at the Shrine). While Fela is widely celebrated amongst the poor (at least in the South-West), the middle-classes/elite are often conflicted....
Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHGRaVkmz8w Robot Koch. The name sounds like a concept album Lupe Fiasco would conceive were he ever dropped from Atlantic and sent down to Triple A to rap for the label of choice for late-period Mobb Deep side-projects (I refuse to call it E1-it’s not a vegetable juice blend, it’s a record label). Straight out of [...]
mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I don’t know what it looks like where you’re at, but where I’m sitting, it’s cold, rainy and gray. I’m not going to let that bring me down though. And lucky for me, I know the best medicine for such a situation...funk music. I’m going with this song by Fela Kuti called “Zombie” I found over at Spinner . It has all the rhythm, groove, and joy that you...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Filed under: Free MP3 Download of the Day Artist: Fela Kuti Songs: 'Zombie' Album: 'The Best of the Black President' [ iTunes ] Sounds Like : James Brown , Tony Allen Download: 'Zombie' (MP3) [Get Winamp] [Download Help] Next MP3 Listen to the Full Album
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The rehearsal space for Hearts of Darkness is more than half the size of a racquetball court, but even so, it’s barely big enough these days for a band rehearsal.
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
To end another edition of #WhiteBoyWednesday , I gotta bring it back to the Black and there's no more effective a way to do that than with the legendary afrobeat pioneer & superstar, Fela Kuti . If you don't know about Fela get familiar . Like NOW ! To celebrate the legacy of Fela, his incredible catalog has been reissued including a greatest hits collection called The Best of the Black President...
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