Vernon Reid honored with Mayor's Award for Arts & Culture
(l to r) Actor John Stamos, Vernon Reid, Mayor Michael Bloomberg Black Rock Coalition and Living Colour co-founder Vernon Reid received The Mayor's Award For Arts & Culture at a lavish awards presentation at The Frank Sinatra School of the...
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Winners of the BLK JKS album giveaway
Thanks to all who entered the giveaway. Who are the lucky winners? I'll be putting CDs in the mail tomorrow to the following people: Anthony Dean-Harris Danielle Scruggs Jason Parham In case you're wondering how the winners were chosen, here...
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DC TONIGHT: All Killer! No Filler!
While not technically a "black rock" event, it is something that's being produced by two cats who are part of the Boldaslove.us extended fam, Stone of The Couch Sessions and Marcus of True Genius Requires Insanity. If you're around the...
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The BlacRoc Project? WTF
Blakroc Project from Myrhax on Vimeo. So many things go through my head when I see this. And most of them aren't good. Let me gather my thoughts into something coherent, then get back to y'all. Like most things, the...
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TONIGHT: Bazaar Royale/Tamar-kali; Anti-Pop Consortium
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SOB's 204 Varick Street @ Houston Info here Anti-Pop Consortium album release party with CX Kidtronik Info here.
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Learning from the death of Derrion Albert
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Advisory: The video above contains scenes of very real, very graphic violence. We can never fly so high that we forget that there are those on our community who are very much stuck on the ground. You see a video...
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Win a copy of the new BLK JKS album "After Robots"!
BLK JKS's label, Secretly Canadian was only able to hook me up with a single pair of tickets for Tuesday's show in DC. However, they provided three (3) copies of the album to giveaway to Boldaslove.us readers. The albums just...
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Bring Cipher's listening tour to you
This is a cool idea. If you want Moe to come to your town, get at him at 516-670-6741 or email: listeningtour[at]gmail[dot]com Additional link: Cipher on MySpace
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UPCOMING: 9/25--Cali rocks with Living Colour and 24-7 Spyz!
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Friday night's a big night in Cali. Up in SF, Living Colour will be at the Regency Ballroom with Fishbone, while down in LA, 24-7 Spyz will be sharing the bill with Year of the Dragon at the Viper Room....
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UPCOMING TOUR DATES: Rain Machine featuring Kyp Malone
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I just started listening to Rain Machine, the solo project from TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone. I'll do a more in-depth review shortly, but my initial two words on the album: It's beautiful. Anyway, the album hits on Tuesday,...
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UPCOMING SHOWS: California King; Game Rebellion; Janelle Monae; The Smyrk; Bad Rabbits; 24-7 Spyz
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Two really good shows are happening Friday, September 18, not far from each other and at about the same time. First: California King and 24-7 Spyz celebrate Jimi and his 3-piece format. More info from Littlefield here. The other event,...
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REVIEW: Living Colour—“The Chair In The Doorway”
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Vital, vibrant and burning, Living Colour return with a thrilling fifth studio album. For some of us, it’s hard to believe that it’s been over 21 years since Living Colour kicked in the doors to mainstream consciousness with their debut...
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VIDEO: Game Rebellion -- "Blind" (live at Afro-punk 2009)
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Find more videos like this on Afro-punk I like the part when Netic starts throwing kids into the waiting arms of the crowd. Check it out. Additional link: More Game Rebellion on Boldaslove.us
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VIDEO: Dope Sagittarius -- "Punkrapstarz"
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Thanks to Twitter fam @MrsNextMatch and @Noiseux for the heads up on this! Hats off to Luqman Brown, the ringleader of both Dope Sagittarius and the legendary Funkface. This is the first video from DS' soon-to-be-released album, Kill The DJ....
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