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
So excited to experience the spiritual vibes of La Mecanica Popular this FRIDAY for Salsa y Sexo Vol. 5 (Facebook invite) at downtown NYC venue, Nublu. Doors are at 11 PM. Word on the street is these parties will take you to great heights, if you know what I mean… The band has been warming up … Read More
When Zuzuka Poderosa is not focused on putting together a new album (do you have ‘Carioca Bass‘ yet?) or taking epic dick pics, she’s playing some shows in New York City & Europe these next couple of months! Check it: May 9: Royal Phoenix – Montreal, Canada May 10: Azucar 3 yr Anniversary – One … Read More