8 Weeko Nico
The smiles have started to arrive! Like little laserbeams of love — I’m smitten as ever.
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The smiles have started to arrive! Like little laserbeams of love — I’m smitten as ever.
Read More →thx to all for the continuing cumbia convo, esp those who have left comments and/or sent emails (is it telling that not all can be aired here?) i guess this stuff cuts close to the bone, but that’s how we like it here at w&w — jugando con fuego desde 2003! & thx to KG […]
Read More →Tonight ! Have u heard No Ground Under? It’s a heater. All that you’d expect and more. Oddball hip-hop, foreign tongues, and pumping Caribbesque beats. Some MTL masala, for sure, but more to the point, it’s downright idiosyncy — “a reflection of where [Ghis is] right now.” I’m not sure about right now, but tonight […]
Read More →¿Qué reflexiones? Tonight in San Fran, DJ /rupture — never one to let his critical eyelids slack — will be digging thru his kumbia krates alongside the Zizek gang. Yesterday, Carolina @ Sound Taste framed her excitement around the neo-cumbia thing (coming soon to NYC) by noting that her “critical distance has gone out the […]
Read More →The Wire’s War on the Drug War — TIME “If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. … No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons…” (tags: tv thewire […]
Read More →Rap, ragga, reggae in East Africa “This site is about the scenes and the people in rap, ragga and reggae in three African capital cities as it was in 1997.” :: an ethnomusicological perspective (tags: hip-hop africa eastafrica kenya tanzania zambia ethnomusicology ethnography) Dancehall.Mobi “Dancehall bytes from Jamaica and across the Globe … directly to […]
Read More →DanceJam – The largest dance floor on the planet! dance video2.0 emporium !! (tags: dance video archive web2.0 p2p pop digital culture af-am) Blog do Tom Zé – UOL Blog tom zé, one of my favoritest musicians in the whole entire world, has a blog ! (tags: blog brazil tomze portuguese) Africanhiphop.com :: “Ndani ya […]
Read More →@ Beat Research on March 31 >> Maga Bo’s sound is a divine (s)mashup of batucada, rai, capoeira, bhangra, and skewed electronic beats in a borderless conundrum of gritty street sounds, found and modified rhythms and melodies from Brazil, Morocco, Senegal, India and beyond. DJing and producing tracks with a portable laptop studio, he has […]
Read More →DJ Tigerbeatz will be making a special trip to the mainland from her home on Martha’s Vineyard for another awesome set here in Cambridge. She mixes up mad styles and will keep the place hopping with her worldy beat driven psychedelic sounds including: electrogypsy . balkan beat . bollybreaks . arabic bumps . asian freakbeat […]
Read More →Monsieur Poirier needs no introduction. Our favorite MTLien has been steadily blowing up the world with his slamming beats for a minute, and now that he is signed to Ninja Tune there is really no stopping him. http://www.ghislainpoirier.com/ DJ Thick (Toronto by way of Puerto Rico, Miami, and DC) fuses years of experience with percussion […]
Read More →[Pardon any events page / rss weirdness — still working out some kinks.] Beginning tonight, March is a BIG month for Beat Research. As snipped (&tucked) from the BR website, here’s the lineup — March 3 :: CARNAVAL MADNESS!! w/ KidDid & Os Santos Yeah, yeah, we know. Carnaval officially dropped early this year. But […]
Read More →Yeah, yeah, we know. Carnaval officially dropped early this year. But wait — não chore mais! KidDid & Os Santos returns to BR to revel in the excesses of carnaval yet one more time! KDOS is the musical alliance of local producer / multi instrumentalist Daniel D’Errico with Brazilian percussion phenom Marcus Santos. Last time […]
Read More →global media coverage, proportionally (via) Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business chris anderson’s latest :: on the freeconomy (tags: book business commerce free culture tech economics) Neil Gaiman – Neil Gaiman’s Journal the author discusses making (his) books available for free (tags: books blog free culture literature comics) The Charms of Wikipedia – […]
Read More →Happy 15th Birthday, Jungle | Mashit DJ C celebrates jungle’s 15th birthday (tags: djc blogpost jungle mixes UK london 90s rave) Passing Strange – Review – Theater – New York Times congrats to stew on his broadway opening! (tags: theater race rock LA amsterdam review) Battleground States Conference Tellem « UNFASHIONABLY LATE analysis of the […]
Read More →1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says — For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local […]
Read More →Ethan Zuckerman is live blogging the TED conference. I’m really impressed with his ability to do so, and I’m grateful for the very interesting, acute reportage he’s been offering. Lots of juicy quotes, like this one from Stephen Hawking: “We now understand the universe,” says Hawking, “Maybe we should patent it and charge people for […]
Read More →Oxfamming the whole black world : Binyavanga Wainaina : Mail & Guardian Online “Hello kitty kitty kitty … Would you like an Oxfam biscuit?” (tags: africa development racism humor critique colonialism) BDubs Volume 2 | stainage.com straight outta brussels :: continental dubstep, grime, & bassline, w/ a touch of acid (tags: europe brussels dubstep grime […]
Read More →What with all the linkthink round here of late, it’s quite possible that an item or two of particular interest and/or awesomeness might slip past even the most attentive, regular readers. So with that in mind, I would like to devote a post of its own to an emerging sound in Brazil known as “eletro […]
Read More →altmuslim – Our Obama problem “Muslims have found the perfect candidate, but cannot vocally support him for fear that if they do, they may be the reason he loses. How is that for a wake-up call.” (tags: islam US politricks af-am racism election08 obama) Red Bull Music Academy :: Ready D & Shaheen – Can’t […]
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