25
May
Rhythm Records, 281 Camden High Street, London, 1984
Lock down your aerial! London's 1980s pirate radio scene – in pictures.
Out to the 80s pirate radio massive ...
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SISTER FROM ANOTHER PLANET
Kenyan-born British top model Malaika Firth is gorgeous in ‘Marni’s Twenty Year Bouquet', celebrating the 20th anniversary of the brand. Photographed by Giampaolo Sgura for Vogue Japan’s April 2015 issue.
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by Ms. K
Malaika Firth was born in Kenya and is of British-Kenyan decent. Malaika was one of the first Black models to appear in a Prada advertising campaign in almost 20 years. I know – pretty lame of Prada but hey…
For Elle France photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino took these awesome and stunning shots of her. I love the clothing! There is everything here that I like and would wear instantly: striped dresses, burgundy & print skirts, print dresses and, and, and. It’s a mix of casual, boheme, Africa-inspired, 60's...
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Engineers & Biologists Analyze 17,000 Songs Spanning 50 Years: "Hip Hop Is Pop Music's Most Important Revolution".
Source: “The Evolution of Popular Music: USA 1960-2010,” by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, in Royal Society Open Science (Kyle Kim)
by Eryn Brown LA Times/Science Now
Forget the Beach Boys, Michael Jackson and Madonna. The most important cultural shift in American pop music began with the explosion of rap in the early 1990s.
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones didn’t spark the British Invasion of the 1960s,...
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by Robbie Gonzalez, io9
If you've ever wanted to hear the difference between traditional funk and Memphis soul, or understand where they fit in the context of more than 1300 musical genres, you might want to clear your schedule. An interactive project called Every Noise at Once is about to devour the rest of your day.
According to project creator and "genre taxonomist" Glenn McDonald:
[Every Noise at Once] is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed...
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Image credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei / Getty Images
$3 a month gets you thousands of hours of Nigerian and Ghanaian films.
by Rawiya Kameir The FADER
Nigeria's film industry releases something like 1,000 films every year, making it almost twice as prolific as Hollywood and second only to Bollywood, size-wise. Films like Last Flight To Abuja and The Return of Jenifa can be relatively low-budget, running more on pure drama and soap opera-like narratives than fancy cinematography. But as Nollywood's audience and repute has...
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© Spaztacular
As a life-long junkie, I can attest to this!
by Mark O'Donnell TimeOut
Yes, there's the small matter of Record Store Day coming up soon. But buying vinyl is a way of life, not just a one day fling. So what's the deal for lifelong vinyl junkies and record shop staffers? Take a look below...
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Produced and directed by Hassan Hajjaj, 2015, 71 minutes, color
Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj’s first feature-length film, Karima: A Day in the Life of a Henna Girl, premieres at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater May 13th, 2015 FREE. Taking viewers into the world of one Hajjaj’s most iconic series, Kesh Angels, the film depicts the “henna girls” of Marrakesh. During the course of a day, Hajjaj follows a businesswoman named Karima and her friends, who work as henna artists in Jemaa...
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Photo: Chad Batka/The New York Times/Redux
(I was hoping against hope these kids would be treated right. :( )
by Marlow Stern The Daily Beast
Their Times Square metal performance went viral, and a trio of 11- and 12-year-olds were signed to a $1.8 million record deal. Then they realized what the industry was all about.
People tend to romanticize the music industry. Behind every successful band is, it seems, a story of a renegade A&R representative who discovered them cracking away at a dive...
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by Nacho Alegre, Natalia Rachlin, Raven Smith | NOWNESS
Over the course of her 25-plus year career, Zoe Bedeaux has dressed Grace Jones and Kate Moss, styled the pages of W, Self Service and 032c, and steadfastly pursued a decade-long collaboration with Juergen Teller.
The London-based fashion vanguard is considered part of an influential group of 90s stylists that includes Camilla Nickerson, Jane How, Camille Bidault-Waddington, who all created shoots for The Face and i-D on a shoestring budget—and she had, and still has, an uncanny and unparalleled eye for spotting vintage treasures. Today, though less actively involved...
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A is for Angela Davis
THIS.
by Laura Feinstein GOOD Magazine
Why just learn your ABCs when you can be empowered by them? A new illustrated children’s book from iconic City Lights press, Rad American Women A-Z, offers kids the chance to educate themselves on women’s history and the alphabet at the same time. Written by Kate Schatz and illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl, the book was inspired by Schatz’s two-year-old daughter. As the writer told Mic, the book was created to fill the “feminist-shaped hole in children's literature,” and goes from A (for Angela Davis) to Z (Zora...
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25
Mar
'We Like It Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo' Sneak Preview + Panel Discussion @ Repertory Theater, Hostos Arts Center Friday May 8, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION - CALL BOX OFFICE FOR TICKETS (718) 518-4455
In partnership with City Lore, Hostos Center presents an evening devoted to understanding Boogaloo, its origins, rise and fall, including a sneak preview of selected scenes from the forthcoming feature-length documentary, We Like it Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo, with filmmaker Mathew Ramirez Warren, and guest panelists, moderated by the noted folklorist and...
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Jimi and Lithofayne outside the Apollo, 1969. Photograph: Courtesy of Lithofayne Pridgon
Sam Cooke, Sly Stone and Little Willie fought for her attention. Jimi Hendrix loved her so much he wrote songs about her. In a rare interview Lithofayne Pridgon tells Chris Campion the unvarnished story of Harlem’s wildest music scene – and how she came to be Hendrix’s greatest muse
by Chris Champion The Observer‘
They were bold and daring, yet endearing at the same time, and they allowed me to just be...
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19
Mar
Great piece by my old friend; always ahead of the curve.
by Michael Gonzales | Soul Head
@gonzomike @qtiptheabstract @questlove @common
Recently I had a conversation with my homie Andrea Rose Clarke aka Sister from Another Planet, about my lack of enthusiasm for reading poetry. There are, of course, a few exceptions, which includes the works of Amiri Baraka, Bob Kaufman, Victor Hernández Cruz and, especially Ntozake Shange. These poets crafted work that made me feel electricity flowing through their words. Reading their poems way back in my Harlem youth, it was...
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'For the truly compulsive hobbyist, there comes a time when a collection gathers weight — metaphysical, existential weight...
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Studio portrait of an African American woman equestrian rider from the late 1880s.
by Dangerous Minds
Here are some photographs of Victorian women of color that date from 1860 to 1901. Unfortunately, a lot of these photographs have no names attached to the women posed in the photographs.
I’d love to know the stories behind each photo. What each woman’s life was like. Sadly, we’ll probably never know. According to Downtown LA Life: Photos of women of color from this era are hard to come...
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Debbie Harry at 69: 'You have to keep new influences coming in' Photo: MIKE MCGREGOR
Forty years after Blondie found fame on the New York scene, Debbie Harry is still waving the flag for women in the music business – of every age
by Sheryl Garratt | The Telegraph
In 1980, during a tour with Blondie, Debbie Harry hosted a tea party at a London hotel, gathering together many of the women prominent in music at the time. Chrissie Hynde was there; Siouxsie Sioux; the Slits...
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Art Lovers | Eye Love You
by blackfabulousity
We’ve always believed that fashion as an art form, can throw down its commercial guns and take on the full embodiment of the creative arts, as was aptly illustrated through the fabrics of Ituen Basi’s Spring Summer 2014 ‘Ekemini’ collection showcased at the 2013 Music Meets Runway.
The collaboration which brought two energetically creative forces together went beyond just slapping the artist’s patterns and paintings on a piece of fabric. They created living art, the models became...
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Nina Simone explains how she came to write "To Be Young, Gifted & Black" with a live performance at Morehouse College in Atlanta, June 1969.
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How could I forget to acknowledge one of my all-time favorite actors. Sir Poitier also made a few spoken word and poetry albums. I have 2 copies because they sneakily released this album; not just a with different cover, but a different title! Here he recites excerpts from Plato's works over music composed and conducted by Fred Katz.
Same album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0sKPFbJzo
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