Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday March 26, 2008
Flex Mathews presents Good Will Ink at the Velvet Lounge 915 U Street NW WDC - Doors at 9 - FREE
DJ Eurok (AKA Peace Justice) w/ Head-Roc and the Package: a live mixtape - 2008 Infinite
Mr. Free and More
Filed under: 746, DC Hip Hop, DC Music, Dimensions, Flex Mathews, Head-Roc, Mr. Free, Noyeek The Grizzly Bear, The Package, Theory, Velevet Lounge, dj eurok, peace justice universal | 0 Comments
Some of us can’t make it to WMC. DJ Stylus and Jahsonic are going to bang out one good time before they get on the plane so we can share in the fun.
Monday March 24
Pre-WMC jump-off with DJ Jahsonic & DJ Stylus
Marvin
2007 14th St. NW, WDC
9 until whenever
cover charge: FREE(style)
Filed under: DC, DC Music, DJ Jahsonic, DJ Stylus, Lil Soso Productions, Marvin | 0 Comments
Sunday morning information leak
Lately, I’ve been listening to Midnite non stop - they are one of the few contemporary musical acts who speak to my worldview these days. Enjoy this video of their live performance of their classic “Propaganda”
Word sounds and power!
Filed under: Midnite Band, Propaganda, Reggae | 2 Comments
Answer the question Fox News!
Peep my man Davey D step to this fool from Fox News! Gotta give Davey mad props for this…I’ve always been a fan of his work since Jomo put me on to his website back in like 1997. Me, Head-Roc and Grizz went out to his lab for an interview while on our West [...]
Filed under: Corporate News., Davey D, Fox News, Hip Hop Blogs, Hip Hop News, Take back America conference, Upset The Setup | 0 Comments
Friday Graf - Fame City
sorry for the single link youtube post, but um, i got work to do.
Filed under: Cope 2, FC, Fame City, Friday Graf, Graffiti, NYC, Psycho, Seen, West | 0 Comments
MN8 presents Amp Fiddler & Tortured Soul w/ Fertile Ground - Special guest DJ Tom B
Saturday, 3/22/08, 9:00PM EDT - $20
9:30 Club - 815 V St NW Washington, DC, USA
Bonus comment points: Why doesn’t MN8 have a blog for their shows?
OH they do!
Double bonus: Which production legend is Amp Fiddler credited for putting on?
Filed under: 9:30 Club, Amp Fiddler, DJ Tom B, Fertile Ground, Fusicology, MN8, Tortured Soul | 1 Comment
Radio CPR Benefit Performances
Radio CPR Benefit Performances for the survivors of the fire at 3145 Mount Pleasant Street NW
FRIDAY 21st ~ Hip-Hop Extravaganza:
· Flex Mathews (DC/South Dakota) www.myspace.com/flexmathews
· Ghetto Fama (DC/MD, El Salvador) www.myspace.com/ghettofama
· Rosetta Stoned (DC/NYC) www.myspace.com/rosettas
· Camilo Cienfuegos (DC/VA, Panama)
· DEO (DC/MD, Colombia) Radio CPR’s original lengua beats master…
SATURDAY 22nd ~ Righteous Rock + Otras:
· Cris [...]
Filed under: Camilo Cienfuegos, Community Support, DC, DC Blogs, DC Music, Deo, Fire, Flex Mathews, Ghetto Fama, Machetres, Mt. Pleasant, Radio CPR, Rosetta Stoned | 0 Comments
Tighten up your high top fade
DJ Dredd and DJ Stylus dig up the old school realness.
Friday, March 21
Black Cat backstage
1811 14th St. NW WDC 20009
9pm/$6
dress code: classic hip-hop styles are encouraged.
Filed under: Black Cat, DC Blogs, DC Hip Hop, DC Music, DJ Dredd, DJ Stylus | 2 Comments
Hear Mt. Pleasant has the roundup on relief efforts for victims of the recent fire. Shout outs to the Columbia Heights Shaw Family Support Collaborative for helping to raise 10K! They are a great organization and have done so much for this city.
Filed under: Columbia Heights Shaw Family Support Collaborative, Community Support, DC, DC Blogs, Fire, Hear Mt. Pleasant, Mt. Pleasant, Relief | 2 Comments
Don’t let this dude fool you like he flew in from Damascus to report this shit, it happened across the street from his office. The AP guys just had to walk outside to get this priceless footage
One of the stated goals of the mobilization was to
disrupt traffic, hamper commuters and block access to some [...]
Filed under: 3/18/08, Anti-war mobilization, DC, DC Blogs, Protests, Upset The Setup, funk the war, students for a democractic society | 0 Comments
Fuck The Onion
And not just for encroaching on the local alternative weeklies, but because I have a feeling this is the kind of it’s not racist because it’s funny / it’s funny because it’s kinda racist, but not really, you’re just being sensitive low-brow humor we will increasingly find towards Barak Obama.
Filed under: Upset The Setup | 0 Comments
Panda Insurgency
ZOMG - The baby panda aka lil butterstick makes run for freedom! He must have been trying to take advantage of the fact that every able bodied police officer in DC was in a 10 block radius on Thursday.
LBR8DC!
Filed under: 222611 | 1 Comment
Angela Valdez has a great article in this week’s Washington City Paper on the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ. If you don’t know about them, you should check it. They are a hot topic for the local blogtrifier community.
BONUS COMMENT POINTS: Today’s mathmatics
Filed under: Angela Valdez, Blogtrifier, DC, DC Blogs, DC News, Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, Upset The Setup, Washington City Paper | 3 Comments
Black Plastic Bag article
Fresh post at the WashingtonCityPaper.com Black Plastic Bag blog by PJ Urquilla
Filed under: Black Plastic Bag, DC, DC Blogs, DC Music, PJ, Pedro, Upset The Setup, Urquilla, Washington City Paper, dj eurok | 0 Comments
More inside (more…)
Filed under: DC Protests, United for Peace & Justice, Upset The Setup | 0 Comments
Boycott the 2008 Olympics
Calls Mount for Olympic Ceremony Boycott
PARIS (AP) - Moves to punish China over its handling of violence in Tibet gained momentum Tuesday, with a novel suggestion for a mini-boycott of the Beijing Olympics by VIPs at the opening ceremony.
UPSET THE SETUP! FREE TIBET! BOYCOTT THE 08 OLYMPICS!
Filed under: Boycott, China, Olympics | 1 Comment
We Care Concert Roundup
Just got home from the Amnesty International / Hip Hop Caucus We Care Concert at the 930 Club. It was a really great show bringing together activists, artists, youth, seasoned older heads, anti-war veterans groups and other other folks for a night of hip hop and resistance. Organized by Rev. Lennox Yearwood and folks from [...]
Filed under: 9:30 Club, Akir, Amnesty International, Brother Paradise, DC Hip Hop, DJ Chela, Davey D, Head-Roc, Hip Hop Caucus, Lennox Yearwood, Revel Diaz, Upset The Setup, We Care Concert, X Clan | 0 Comments
Street Theater Residency
DJEurok.com and Upset The Setup.com are proud to announce my new street theater residency at Logan Circle Park. There will be two daily performances, ~ 9:30 AM and ~ 6:00 PM, where I work to develop my one man show - Logan Circle is not a Dog Park. A modern classic in the making, it [...]
Filed under: DC, DC Blogs, Logan Circle is not a dog park, Street Theater, Upset The Setup | 0 Comments