I remember the days of surfing through the clearance section of Half Price Books for cheap overlooked musical goodies, paying 90% less for CDs I’d purchased new before and since lost, then walking out feeling like a champ. Now along with sites like Gritty Goat, I get bleeding edge jams from Bandcamp.com. Especially [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hip-hop’
Hip-hop artist, Feloni, to release her second and last CD in 2010.
Lesbian hip-hop artist, Feloni spent the better part of Saturday. January 2 sharing public tweets about her upcoming CD, Love Spent, and her plans for it to be the last project under that name, stating that she “has done what she needed to do”
“As I’ve stated in the past, I’m not a rapper. I got [...]
Mononauts on the mic with “China Blue”
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Listeners of Mandrake Society Radio podcast will attest to the fact that I totally groove on the music of William L. Hasan, who was once Autolect, but now goes by Velox Nur. His latest project with OnBeats (a.k.a. Fanatic) called Mononauts is another tasty treat. Take a listen to the track, “China Blue”. [...]
Where’s the music for our liberation?
This video, now 20 years old, sparked a conversation on my Facebook page recently about rap music and its ability to influence with positive messages. One person asked in essence, “Where are those messages now?”. Like Avery R. Young from the Hetertosexism and Hip-Hop panel podcast I uploaded last month (which you should definitely [...]
Podcast: Heterosexism and Homo-hop panel from Fire & Ink 2009 in Austin, TX
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A lively discussion recorded in Austin, TX, at The Fire & ink III: The Cotillion on Saturday, October 10th on contemporary hip-hop, the double edged sword of image of hyper-masculinity in hip-hop by gay artists, and the musical double standard by gay clubs and Pride event planners in our communities. The panel includes hip-hop/soul [...]
‘Umsindo’ is the groove: new Georgia Anne Muldrow
Georgia Anne Muldrow’s solo projects just get funkier and funkier. Her latest, Umsindo, is less of the dense piano and vocal chordings that were present on 2006’s Olesi: Fragments of an Earth, and more juicy bare beats and bass which jump into your system from the first bars of “Jina Langu ni Afrika”. [...]
Workshops, performances added to 2009 Fire & Ink website.
Many of the workshop descriptions and performances for this year’s Fire & Ink event in Austin, TX are now listed at the website. Billed as the “Writer’s Festival for GLBT people of African Descent”, workshops will be presented on writing for the media and screenwriting and well as finding poetic voice, developing radical voice, and [...]
dirtywater shares words with Mandrake FM
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Coming to you from Washington, DC, the emcees in dirtywater share a background of singing and spoken word in college bands. They met on the campus of North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. Prior to their meeting, they had both made names for themselves individually. Cee Brown gained popularity as a spoken word [...]
