La Mecanica Popular release their 2nd official music video off of their self-titled debut LP on Names You Can Trust for the song, Guajiro, which is one of my favorite tracks on the album! Created by Peruvian artist Muriel Holguín and her Lima-based collective, Youth Experimental Studio, the video is a bizarre & beautiful trip … Read More
Photo by @townparkoak of El Negrito Dun Dun aka Raka Dun: 1/2 of Oakland-via-Panama’s Los Rakas. Check out this piece by Raka Family and collaborator, Chief Boima via Dutty Artz: “RAKA DUN’S AMERICAN DREAM“ “Directors The Perez Brothers really did their thing on this one, taking Dun’s verses from a narrative about the broken promises of the American Dream, … Read More
La Mecanica Popular Prepare For Central Park Summerstage! LMP Share Stage With Fania Record’s Legendary Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound & Global Club Music Pioneer Little Louie Vega to Kickoff Summerwide Celebration of 50th Anniversary of Fania Records Label On Saturday, June 14th At 6 PM [CLICK HERE FOR INFO] Video Release Party & Warm-Up Gig … Read More
I think we ought to look at sharing on the Internet more as a public and humanitarian service. Or at least, I do. Everything else is really self-serving and narcissistic, if you really think about it. Though, when I share my own image, it’s within the context of brutal sanitizing of image, whitewashing, colonialist, patriarchal … Read More
I love Teri Gender Bender (of Le Butcherettes). Thank goddess for Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and The Mars Volta (RIP), too. Click on the red heels for your soundtrack for today: Here’s to an artist in 2014 with something to say (and SCREAM!): “I’m not off fighting the war. I’m not killing anyone. I’m not stealing chocolate … Read More
Living in Los Angeles really transformed my life path. One of those major spaces for transformation was at the infamous reggae night, Dub Club. You always knew Wednesdays was the place to get dubbed out with your friends on a consistent basis. Subsuelo is deep for me on another level, because it’s a party born … Read More
Check out these photos (thanks One Plus Love) of Zuzuka Poderosa rocking Azucar! – A Queer Latin Dance Party‘s 3rd anniversary celebration earlier this month. The packed crowd of sweaty, beautiful lovers dipped and certainly made some #InterracialMusicBabies! Allow for some emotional and straight-from-the-hip (or heart)-writing right now, will you? If you’re down, read on. And do … Read More
SUMMARY: Los Rakas Collaborate With Blondie! Video “Sueño Americano” Off New Album “El Negrito Dun Dun & Ricardo” (Do it, Spotify!) Hits Deep As Group Prepares To Release Part 2 of Video Series With Song “Chica De Mi Corazon.” Upcoming Shows in Los Angeles (Dubclub / Subsuelo), Caliroots Festival, Afro-Latino Fest in Belgium, Reggae on … Read More
3-D printers, neon peace sign drones, babies taking selfies, brown & white urban kids wiling, dancing, plastic colored guns and vapes…so glad M.I.A. got this out! Double Bubble Trouble is one of my favorite tracks off her new album Matangi. She keeps on fighting! The labels and higher powers that be can not shut this … Read More
To my NYC friends who have never been to Staten Island (our 5th borough) and have expressed interest, here’s your chance: There’s lots of opportunities to come this summer, but the first great opportunity is this SATURDAY NIGHT (9pm – 2 am) for Photographer Mike Shane‘s FIRE SALE art show of his works traveling the … Read More