Lisa Shaw at Strictly Social – 05/20
Can’t wait for this one! Lisa Shaw will be at Strictly Social this Weds! Nu-Soul Magazine & Soul Union are proud to present a very special edition of Strictly Social on Wednesday May 20, 2009. Salted Music recording artist and soulful house music legend Lisa Shaw will be gracing our stage for a very special...
Hennessy Black presents Project Art
Project Art is an established gathering hub for artists, cultural enthusiasts, and music lovers of all backgrounds to unify and interact with one another. The platform also raises awareness for the alternative art scene through Paintings, Graffiti, Photography and other mediums while all being intertwined with Live Music, Live DJ, Dance and Breakin. Project Art...
KCET Discusses Graffiti – Interviews Chaka, Revok, Retna
KCET’s SoCal Connected featured a segment on graffiti art last night, including coverage of the recent Chaka opening at Mid-City Arts, and interviews with Chaka, Revok and Retna. Check out a clip below.
Listen To Garth Trinidad’s Interview With Maxwell
Garth Trinidad hosted Maxwell for an in-studio interview on Wednesday night. You can listen to the interview in the player below and hear some of your fave Maxwell tunes, as well as the new track “Pretty Wings” from the (finally!) forthcoming album BLACKSummer’sNight – to be released in July -which is the first of a...
It’s Jay Are – Video – John Robinson
In this live clip, from Live at Speakeasy #5 at The Apache Cafe, John Robinson gives a preview of the forthcoming collaboration album with J. Rawls – Jay Are – The 1960s Jazz Revolution Again. Both J. Rawls and John Robinson have put out some dope albums. These are just a couple places to start...
fLako and Versis – Yeah Yeah Yeah
Kwatro once again have hit us up with some good stuff. This is a collaboration between beat maker fLako and an MC named Versis who added his, um, verses, to this instrumental of fLako’s which first appeared on his beat tape The First Spaceshit on The Moon. Listen: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]...
Savath and Savalas – La Llama
Well this track has been floating around for ages, but since I’m in a Scott Herren kind of mood, I thought now is as good a time as any to play catch up. Savath & Savalas is Herren’s “Catalan acid-folk project” on which he collaborates with Eva Puyuelo Muns and Roberto Carlos Lange. Stones Throw...
Guillermo Scott Herren Mixtape Download
Scott Herren AKA Prefuse 73 has been so kind as to give away this wonderful mixtape for free. Sleeping on Saturday and Sunday Afternoon is a very chill collection of instrumentals and mini-soundscapes. Ethereal and constantly shifting like those wierdly vivid dreams I have while napping, this mixtape is what I imagine it would be...
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