“The beat drops like a cliff/over looking my heart,” said poet, actor, teacher and writer Saul Williams. Live from Kaufman Music Center’s Ecstatic Music Festival, Williams collaborated with New York City’s Mivos Quartet and German composer Thomas Kessler to spit alchemy over orchestration. Their collaboration is intense. At moments they clash and scatter, but Williams and Mivos are rhythmically in-sink. The changing pitch of the strings, from high to low summon a roller coaster of emotions. The whole performance works like …
Author: Tracy Jones
Hopefully this will answer why this man hasn’t been spitting, putting out his fashion line or, last but oh so certainly not least, putting out an Outkast album. Sigh. The Jimi Hendrix biopic film, All Is By My Side is scheduled to premier at this month’s SXSW. …
El-P and Killer Mike as Run The Jewels just released an animated video for Run The Jewels, the title track off their self-titled LP. The video was directed by Ruffmercy. Sssscrumptious! …
The independent short film On The Grind is a finalist in The Sheckler Foundation‘s “Be The Change Competition.” Please vote now to help at-risk youth, and to help get this film made into a full length feature . You can vote everyday until the competition ends. On The Grind is a short 2006 documentary about Long Beach’s vibrant skateboard scene and a gang-shooting that took the life of one it’s rising stars. Coming out of a disenfranchised community, Michael K. Green (aka Blacc …
Here’s the visual for “Bad Meaning Good,” the single off White Sands, the collaborative EP between New York rapper Homeboy Sandman and UK producer Paul White. According to Potholes In My Blog, that is Sandman crooning part of the hook that references “Peter Piper,” the hit single off Run DMC’s 1986 ground breaking classic album Raising Hell. In the video Sandman spits while walking the New York City skyline. Stay tuned. Next Wednesday TMG interviews Homeboy Sandman. …
Socials