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Exclusive interview with Me’Shell Ndegeocello at popolio.com

Boy, boy boy! Freddie has done it now! Catch a exclusive blog interview with the one and only Me’Shell Ndegeocello at popolio.com today and tomorrow. Here’s part one.

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Monday Jazzsession Mixtape #38 – Interview with Sandra Kaye

Today’s show features an interview with Generativity Records artist, Sandra Kaye. Since 1986, Sandra has thrilled audiences around the world and she shares with me how her music career got off the ground via a now defunct cabaret show in Dallas’ West End. The interview was recorded in her Dallas home. Songs featured from her [...]

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Podcast: About Marlon Riggs, Creating Change, and what’s new in stereo.

Marlon Riggs, “one the top Black filmmakers…changing the conversation on HIV and AIDS”. Use the courtesy resource to keep informed – this site’s community calendar. My overall thoughts on Creating Change conference. Creating Change hashtag on Twitter: #cc10. Words from author/speaker, Tim Wise (From YouTube) on how white privilege trips even white people up. Talking [...]

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Monday Jazzsession Mixtape #37

“I Love Being Here with You” – Mary Stallings “Bail Out” – Terje Lie “Dona Maria” – Rufus Reid “Lazy Afternoon” – Paul Myers Quartet featuring Frank Wess W/Andy Bey “Simply Natural” – Carla Cook “Wallflower Blues” – Somi “Numerico” – Manuel Valera “Growin Up” – David Binney, Alan Ferber “Soaring” – Amanda Tosoff “I [...]

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Musician, Jennie Laws, supports NOH8

From my interview of R&B, jazz artist, Jennie Laws in May of ’08, I thought she was not only a talented vocalist and musician, but a cool person to get to know, period. Then, Freddie Beat of popolio tipped me off to her NOH8 photo on her MySpace pages. Very cool! (In case you’re new [...]

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Why I love Bandcamp

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 since my [...]

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Monday Jazzsession Mixtape #36

“Never The Same” – Charles Langley “Making Love” – Erik Rico “Coat Of Many Colors” – James Vincent “Crossing Streets” – Evan Marien “A Night in Tunisa” – Quintessence Saxophone Quintet “Ponta De Ariea” – Esperanza Spaulding “So Easy” – Dozens “Naturally” – Hal Galper “Coat Of Many Colors” – James Vincent “Teenies World” – [...]

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The politics of a gay musician pt. 3: About TON3X

Anthony Charles Williams II is a vocal powerhouse, period. Whether R&B, hip-hop, or the gospel styling that made him as Tonex (now, TON3X) loved and respected worldwide, the man cannot be stopped. However, since his clearest address of his long-rumored sexuality (he’s addressed it long before the famed Lexi interview in 2009) has been made, [...]

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