Opening this weekend at Mid-City Arts is Miami Graffiti, a celebration of Jim & Karla Murray’s book documenting the Miami graffiti scene, and an art show featuring the work of many of Miami’s top street artists.
July 11, 7pm – 9pm
www.midcity-arts.com
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Two of street art’s finest talents, Retna and El Mac, are appearing together at 33Third this Sunday, June 7 for a rare live painting collaboration. The two have worked together on several well-known street pieces, but this will be a great opportunity to watch them work their magic live before your eyes! The event will [...]
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.
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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 your [...]
This is an amazing video that takes the art of music + visuals to another level! Thanks to SpankyStokes.
The official blurb on the the vid:
‘Heaven’ was used in the acclaimed skate film Fully Flared directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. The collaboration inspired the directors to take footage and re-edit a sequence of shots [...]
Stones Throw’s latest find is the very soulful Mayer Hawthorne. He’s got a classic soul n’ funk sound that even your parents might appreciate. And in this case, that’s not a bad thing. “Maybe So, Maybe No” channels a time when soul was good n’ funky, catchy and melodious. No production frills, no freakin’ autotuney [...]
Taken from the excellent album Conflict, available at MobileUnderground.com
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Possibly one of the best songs from the Foreign Exchange’s Leave It All Behind album. Check out the video for “Take Off The Blues”…..
The Foreign Exchange feat. Darien Brockington – “Take Off The Blues” from The Foreign Exchange on Vimeo.
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Slakah The Beatchild’s Soul Movement Vol 1 was one of my Top albums of 2008, and I recently discovered this video for “Enjoy Ya Self” over at Fresh Selects.It’s self-directed, and nicely done.
While on YouTube I then found the other video taken from the same album which shows a slightly different side of Slakah. This [...]