Early last month we reported about What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music, the ultimate star studded artsy fartsy music documentary Red Bull Academy was making. Remember? Directed by Ralf Schmerberg, the feature-length film was recorded on a slew of hand held cameras keeping it authentic, in the moment and shaky like life. The collection of artists featured in it were colossal, comparable to The Justice League, the 1993 Dream Team roster: Erykah Badu, Flying Lotus, Q-Tip, Nile Rodgers, Rakim, Thundercat, …
Author: Tracy Jones
This is for the somewhat loungin’ laid back ears. The warm bass sounds and head nodding drums keep it engaging. I was surprised to hear the slowed down Monie Love’s “It’s A Shame (My Sister) throwback. This cat is from the East, where the sun rises for real. DJFYO a.k.a. Do Justly From Your Own (Music & Strength Crew) moved back to Japan in 2010 after being active as a DJ, producer, and music supervisor in Los Angeles, California. He …
Just discovered Mexican artist Kidghe, homie is nasty. Multi mediums combine to produce these super abstract, architectural, and graffiti wildstyle images. Their chaotic motion is suspended and in pieces, but they’re not collapsing just expanding like pulling a radio antenna or an exploding ship in space. They could go forever inward and out. Peep his newest murals below along with some styles on paper. via Graffuturism …
Wols (A. O. Wolfgang Schulze), 1913–1951, was a German painter, photographer, and illustrator. He could’ve been a first string violinist, but took up photography as an apprentice instead. He lived in France at the turn of the century, but was put in an interment camp when World War II broke out. By 1940 he managed to flee the Germans several times before returning to France after the war died down. At that point he had already turned to alcoholism after repeated attempts …
It was black, punk and from Detroit, Michigan. It was Death. Three brothers, Bobby, David, and Dannis Hackney formed a garage band and created music that predated when punk was supposedly invented. It was the early 70’s, and while people were sweating it out in discos and Motown was dominating the charts, these three brothers were pioneering punk. The first time I heard of them was when I saw the trailer for the documentary, A Band Called Death (Drafthouse Films). It was literally, …