Archive for September, 2009
UPSET THE SETUP ARTS GRANTS
Just announced:
UPSET THE SETUP will award a $1000 arts grant to a DC resident to support the production of anti-Fenty artwork. (Visual/Audio)
Details forthcoming.
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Subliminal
Last night I had a dream about Dexter the serial killer. There is a TV show on Showtime about a serial killer named Dexter.
I saw this ad on a hip hop blog for a video game about that TV show last night.
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Hip Hop and Cultural Expression
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Tags: Farrakhan
Monday Video Throwback – Bass!
Found this in a stack of records on Saturday.
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Start Wars
From Rush Limbaugh’s site:
From Drudge Report:
This is how the right wing intends to build their base. FAIL
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at least come back a week later and bring prints to share,
or else you’re just another neocolonial anthropologist here to document the rituals of the natives.
all you do is take.
photo via flickr.
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Tags: Malcolm X Drum Circle
WORLDWIDE
At Burning Man
Jon Kennedy in the UK
Weusi B in Chocolate City!
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Double Bonus – TONTO & Stevie Wonder
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Tags: Stevie Wonder
New Music – Tabansi
A rough dub plate of a afro house track i put together today. PEACE
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Portugal
Jon Kennedy sent this flick from his recent trip to Portugal.
UPSET THE SETUP WORLDWIDE! Those white shirts are shook.
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Blame it on the alcohol
See that 750 ml bottle of Hennessy that Mr. West was carrying in to the MTV Video Music Awards last night? By the time he crashed Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech, he had probably put back 2-300 ml of Cognac – you know, not enough to have you falling out, but enough to cross that line [...]
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Tags: Alcoholism, Hip Hop, Kanye West
Monday Video Throwback
It was the summer of ‘95. We all just graduated high school and spent the summer smoking blunts and kicking it like time was running out. I had a Maxell 90 minute dub from WXCI’s hip hop show with this single on it. We would hotbox the civic behind the mall [...]
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Saturday 9.5.9 at ESL
This Saturday – my dj set at ESL. 1212 18th ST NW WDC. I go on at 11.
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Tags: dj eurok, Eighteenth Street Lounge
It’s been nearly a decade since the digital music genie burst out of its bottle, changing the game for virtually everyone in the music ecosystem. Future of Music Policy Summit 2009 features practical, musician-focused workshops, keynotes from leading artists, managers and policymakers and inspired panel discussions with the sharpest minds in the music/technology/policy space.
Among the [...]
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Tags: Future of Music Coalition
Africa Plays On III
In spirit of Lunch Box Theorys End of Summer Afrobeat party, DJ Underdog humbly and aggressively fuses of Nigerian, Cubanismo, Juju, Fete, Latin Jazz and many other genres of music together, to form his third mixtape, “Africa Plays On 3″. Underdog stresses the importance of records in every production. You can even hear the crackle [...]
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Tags: Afrobeat, DJ Underdog
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