Archive for April, 2009
Skillz on U Street
(Mad) Skillz at Almaz Friday. Should be dope. Details inside. Shoutouts to the promoters using facebook ads…
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WORD UP
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Tags: XM, Afrika Bambaataa, Red Bull Music Acadmey
Funk Fenty
Via Heady
FUNK FENTY!
Concert & Rally to Save Public Property &
Protest Fenty’s Attacks on Chocolate City Residents & Workers
THURSDAY, MAY 7TH
4-7 PM
FREEDOM PLAZA – 14th & Penn Ave, NW
(rain date May 8th)
Live Music By Local Rock/Funk Bands:
GODISHEUS
MACHETRES
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Tags: Head-Roc, Godisheus, Machetres, DJ Soyo, DJ Earth1ne
Graf Anarchy
Compare and contrast these videos of two coordinated graffiti attacks:
From Mexico
From Berlin
Discuss.
Yes, the Germans wrote PURE HATE.
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Tags: Graffiti
Hip Hop Yawns
Asher Roth is the new commercial hip hop brand for white kids in the 16-24 year old market. I’m not a fan, and I wasn’t expecting to become one anyway – but currently, Asher is in a little bit of an interactive brand marketing fuckstorm with some recent comments on Twitter. It’s interesting to watch [...]
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May 1st: March for Just and Humane Immigration Reform
3 pm- Gather in Malcolm X Park: 16th and W Streets NW Washington, DC
4 pm- March to the White House
Our Demands:
Stop the Raids and Deportations
Just and Humane Immigration Reform
End the 287g Agreements–No Local Enforcement of Broken Immigration Laws
This is a critical time for the immigrant community. For [...]
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Tags: NCIC, Immigration Rally, Malcolm X Park
free-idea
I can haz cheezburger meets thisfuckinghipster
The domain name will cost you extra.
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Orbit 122 put me on to Res a long time ago. She’s dope (WHEN PERFORMING THE SONGS SANTIGOLD WROTE) – get familiar.
Res with E44 & DJ Stylus
April 23, 2009, 8:30 pm
Liv
2001 14th St NW, WDC
$20
Check out E44 – a new hip hop jazz project featuring DJ Stylus
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Tags: DJ Stylus, Liv, Res, E44, 4/23/09
Backyard Band
I was in the lab when someone came cruising down T street with Backyard on blast. There’s something about the way Big G sound on the mic and the boom of that percussion that just cranks.
I spent a few minutes googling Backyard Band to see what came up. There’s a myspace page, and ‘the real’ [...]
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Tags: Backyard Band, Go-Go
“Diamond District is the type of project that DC hip hop heads have been anxiously awaiting for years. It’s the right combination of slick-produced boom bap beats and street-smart flows, plus the professional packaging and promotion that has long eluded indy releases from the nation’s capital” – UPSET THE SETUP
Oddisee, XO and YU are: Diamond [...]
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Tags: Diamond District, Oddisee, XO, YU
Godisheus | Machetres at Asylum
Wed April 15th 2009 – 8PM – 11PM
2471 18th ST NW DC
This show is free – so tip the band. Head-Roc’s got something to say about these venues around town robbing indy musicians of the door $$$. Check him out – you know this is NOT THE DUMB SHIT!
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Tags: Godisheus, Machetres
Monday Video Throwback
RUN DMC – Sucker MCs (Graffiti Rock 1984)
Was this before or after they got booed of stage in DC?
JMJ had em rocking the black leather…
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Theory – Beat Tape Uno
“Shinin” – Theory
“Touch” – Theory
Theory is one third of The Package – a hip hop group from here in the DMV. He’s an incredible producer, crafting beats with the skill of a true musician. These 11 instrumentals are perfect for freestyles or just noddin’ out to a dope track.
Download – Theory | Beat [...]
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Tags: The Package, Theory
From the good folks at the EFF:
In Warrantless Wiretapping Case, Obama DOJ’s New Arguments Are Worse Than Bush’s
We had hoped this would go differently.
Friday evening, in a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless wiretapping of countless Americans, the Obama Administration’s made two deeply troubling arguments.
First, [...]
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Tags: Bush, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, NSA, Obama, Wiretapping
Literally spent the whole weekend in the lab working on beats. Luckily Sincodos took me to costco so I had provisions.
In a dub and bass style
Abas – DJ Eurok | Upset The Setup – Download MP3
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Policy DC
A club masquerading as a bar/restaurant is a tough sell in a highly gentrified neighborhood such as mine.
That said, I wish the people at Policy DC – the new restaurant at 14th and T the best of luck.
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They’re back. Rock The Bells 2009
DC (Merriweather?)
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Tags: DC, Rock The Bells, Merriweather Post Pavillion, MD, DMV, VA
A 6 minute clip of the 45 King showing you how hip hop was invented.
All you laptop kids, hang your head in shame. REPENT
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Tags: 45 King, Hip Hop
Monday Video Throwback
Whatup Jarobi!
Double Bonus: Did you know I never heard this album in its entirity until sometime in like 2003? LATE PASS
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but:
Subject: We’re Closing Down
Dj Hut friends and customers,
We have some sad and disappointing news to share with you. Dj Hut can no longer battle the dual headwind of the demise of the music retail industry and the economic downturn. As a result, we are forced to [...]
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Tags: Demise of the record store, DJ Hut
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