Bold As Love (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
'08 is shaping up to be a good year. The Black Rock Coalition (BRC) recently launched a new site with the goal of providing a black countercultural POV on just about everything. Organization co-founder Greg Tate is leading the charge...
Bold As Love (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Yeah, I'd missed the Game Rebellion/Voodoo Fe/Bazaar Royale show at the Skate Park last Wednesday, but decided to make that late night trek over the Sputnik to see Greg Tate and his "fully improvisational acid-funk band" Burnt Sugar. Now, I...
Soul Sides (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
The great Greg Tate takes it back to '89 for his summer song post .
Soul Sides (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
1) Summer Songs will launch within a week. Either myself or Greg Tate will kick off the proceedings. 2) Le Blogtheque just released a very cool concept mixtape called " Cadavre Exquis: Across the Continents ". The "exquisite corpse" is an artistic process where a sequence of people take turns adding onto an existing work - in this case, songs. It's a simple but creatively powerful idea and one that...
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
It's amazing to see people making this argument right at the moment when Barack Obama--one of the most cerebral presidential candidates in recent memory--is making such a strong bid for the White House. Furthermore, Obama is doing this with utterly...
Cobb (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Some time ago, it was 1991 I think, I can never seem to remember exactly in calendar terms, I moved to Brooklyn. I had been a performance poet in the LA scene and along with my fairly mature programming skills...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
Better known as a writer and cultural critic, former Village Voice scribe Greg Tate has been equally prolific on the bandstand.
Zoilus (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Greg Tate conducts Burnt Sugar at the Bowery Poetry Club in September. Photo by Peter Gannushkin . Prior to next Thursday's gig by New York's Bitches' Brew -wrestles-Sun Ra-on-Funkadelic's-trampoline ensemble Burnt Sugar at the Lula Lounge , there's going to be a workshop in which leader Greg Tate (perhaps the writer most responsible for making me want to do music criticism - get this book back in...
MisterBryans' (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
I get to read a lot of band promotional material working at Lula Lounge, most of it decently written, some of it totally lame, and none of it reaching anywhere near the rhetorical zaniness of the bio for Burnt Sugar....
NewBlackMan (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Greg Tate & Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson Critical Noir: Generous Brilliance By Mark Anthony Neal *** What was apparent as Greg Tate and Arthur Jafa exchanged fragments of "feedback loops" long cultivated in the midnight hours of their friendship, is that they love and respect each other enough to challenge each other's thinking, but are secure enough in their own intellects to not feel threatened when...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
"This Is Our Music," a new monthly series at the Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will debut on Wednesday, March 5, from 8PM until 1AM. Tickets are $10. "This Is Our Music" presents the finest in exciting and adventurous sounds, with an emphasis on autophysiopsychic music. Expect the un-expected. Curated by Brad Farberman...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Good news! Greg Tate is coming to EMP's Pop Conference . There is no other reason why I write for a weekly than the work Tate produced for The Village Voice in the 80s and 90s. True, I do not agree with his position on Miles Davis' late work (on that point I side with another hero, Stanley Crouch), but Tate's pieces on hiphop and contemporary black culture in general are the source of some of the...
MySpace.com (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
This post will eventually become somewhat of a review of the Burnt Sugar show this past Sunday at the Espace Culturel André Malraux. Let's ease in slowly though, shall we? Start with the basics. First...
Cobb (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
The editors of The Root have started to bring in some heavyweight writers. Greg Tate and my boy Jimi Izrael grace its pages today. In one article, Marc Lamont Hill confirms the dirty little secret of black politics. I too...
Concrete Loop (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
♫ Alice Smith - Dream Alice Smith may not be new to a lot of you CL visitors but nevertheless she deserves a spotlight. The NYC-based singer has been making waves since late ‘06 when she released her debut album , For Lovers, Dreamers & Me. Rolling Stone listed her as one of the ‘10 Artists [...]
