The mad scientists behind Rap Genius have forged new frontiers by bringing Hip-Hop together with the power of Google to bring you “Rap Map™ – your guide through the gangsta terrain of the planet.”
After sixteen years making Hip-Hop history, the legendary Fat Beats will be closing both their L.A. and N.Y.C. retail locations and moving their operations (record label, retail and distribution) online. A heartbreaking sign of the times as worldwide Hip-Hop fans will miss the brick-and-mortar locations and the must-see vinyl pilgrimage Fat Beats provided.
More on this at their blog.
Check out a brief video on their history. read more »
Gabi Gregg, better known now as her Twitter handle @gabifresh has been crowned MTV’s first-ever Twitter Jockey. The Motor City native comes to MTV with a fashionista following garnered from her plus-size-fashion blog, YoungFatandFabulous.com, but it was her “eye for style and gregarious charm” that cinched her the win at the live finale Sunday night.
More on this at MTV.com.
The city of San Diego serves as a canvas for 20 urban artists from 10 countries during the seven-month-long Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape exhibit, which features the artists’ works both in the museum’s galleries and on buildings Downtown. The exhibit is the brain child of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego along with guest curator Pedro Alonzo and MCASD Associate Curator Lucía Sanromán. The artwork is open to the public and will be showcased until January 2, 2011.
Banksy, Fairey, Invader, Blu and others will be showcased in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibit. Visit the museum’s website to see the full roster of talent and learn more about the exhibit.
Only a lot less Zooey Deschanel and a lot more Lil Wayne. My Sick Uncle’s latest — (500) Days of Weezy says it’s “… not a mashup album, this is an album about Wayne.” But it mashes up a couple of awesome things in a strange and wonderful way that demand to be downloaded right now.
“The Run Up” — the newest documentary from Shaun Roberts and Joey Garfield, in association with FIFTY24SF Gallery — gets up close and personal with more than 20 of today’s most groundbreaking street artists. The DVD is more than three hours of urban art-in-the-making and is the gallery’s follow-up to the acclaimed graffiti documentary “Dithers.”
Opening today at the California African American Museum is a four-decade look at African Americans and their contributions to the history of surfing, skateboarding and rollerskating. This exhibit opens just one week before the 2010 X-Games and both events are located in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.
Drift Surfing has an extensive preview of the six-month exhibit on their site.
Is it a nod to the 17 Emmy awards Mad Men was recently nominated for? Is someone getting amped that the summer of reruns is getting some welcome relief with the July 25 return to the screen? Either way, we got a little Kiss My Black Ads love today for our Addy promo.
A big congrats to S\W El Paso for bringing home the bronze at the Telly Awards for the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau tourism spot. Check out the winning spot below: read more »
We’re big fans of our AT&T spot SWAG, but this group on Facebook has taken it to a whole new level. In less than a month, they’ve garnered more than 92 thousand fans and are still growing.
Have you learned the handshake yet?
World Cup madness is about to descend upon the globe, and with it, the bevy of sports talk and swell of team pride.
So before that comes to pass, take a moment to reflect on the works of art included in the 2010 FIFA Official Art Posters Series. Six local South African artists and 11 international artists were included in this selection, and the pieces are simply stunning.
For more information: Afronline.com — The Voice of Africa
When you mash up the musical stylings of first-class klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer with hip-hop artist Socalled, you’re going to wind up with a product that’s unique and awesome. But when you add Fred Wesley’s trombone to the mix, you’re going to end up with a class of klezmer on a different planet of funk altogether.
Wesley may have toured with the Count Basie Orchestra and Parliament-Funkadelic, and cut his teeth with Ike and Tina, but he’s best known for his instrumental role playing and arranging, and for creating his legacy as the “world’s most famous sideman” alongside James Brown in the ’60s and ’70s. When you hear his bone wail, it’s an unmistakable sound. This new collaboration Abraham Inc. brings it all together as a 10-piece ensemble and has recently released a new record, “Tweet, Tweet.”
More on how Abraham Inc. was founded on npr.org.
Check out the collaboration’s website at abrahamincmusic.com.
Check out our latest spot highlighting daredevil Parkour moves on the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network.
Our latest TV spot features U-verse TV catching the attention of a customer inside an AT&T store, blurring the line between reality and reality TV.
Mos Def and Ben Jaffe wrote a song together, a take on Smokey Johnson’s “It Ain’t My Fault,” and in an all-night session less than 12 hours later, they got together with Lenny Kravitz, the Preservation Jazz Hall Band, Trombone Shorty and Tim Robbins to put it on record to benefit the nonprofit organization Gulf Aid (established in response to the catastrophic oil disaster off the Louisiana coast). Yeah you right — that’s New Orleans.
Gulf Aid’s big show was May 17, and although the torrential rainstorms threatened the concert, the bands played on. All of the musicians who played on It Ain’t My Fault, plus Kermit Ruffins, Allen Toussaint, Ani DeFranco, Dr John, Tab Benoit, BeauSoleil, Terrence Blanchard and many other New Orleans legends came back and brought it home for the wetlands.
To see how you can help, visit GulfAid.com.
For the video of It Ain’t My Fault, visit Entertainment Weekly.
* Photo courtesy of Robert X. Fogarty. DearNewOrleans.org
So say you take a kung fu flick, add Wu-Tang Clan founder the RZA and horror-genre master Eli Roth, what do you get? EPIC KUNG FU.
