It was a busy 2013 for Orlando, Florida’s music collective Solillaquists of Sound. First, they toured France, came home, raised $16,393 through their kickstarter campaign with a goal of $12,500, and then they released, The 4th Wall, a double album box set. Talk about “Everyday I’m hustling,” just in the second week of the new year: Swamburger, the MC of the group, had a solo art show at downtown Orlando’s Peacock Room, B-Side Artists Apparel is putting out a collaborative series …
Author: Tracy Jones
Fellow Native Tongue and all out fresh producer Prince Paul just dropped a gem from his 2005 XM Radio show. It was called Prince Paul’s World Famous Illout Show and it was unjustly short lived. In this episode, Paul kicks it with his friends, cracks jokes, plays a lot of classic material and runs down his incredible career of making dope music. Upon posting it he wrote, “This is The brief run of Prince Paul’s world famous Illout show that appeared on …
Adam Horovitz aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys just scored No No: A Documentary, a documentary about Doc Ellis, a Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher that supposedly threw a no-hitter in 1970…while on acid. The trailer is cool, but it’s too long as if to tell his whole story, giving lesser reason to watch the entire film. Except, the devil’s in the details. Ad-Rock is steady expanding into film. According to The Wrap, he might be in director Noah Baumbach’s next flick …
Madrid-based art collective Boa Mistura create Somos Luz in a Panamá City housing project. They help an entire community transform the facade of their old run down project into light. The short documentary shows Bua Mistrua and the tenants painting the mural. The viewer gets an impression of everyday life in a struggling community. Life is worthless and gangs are prevalent. The unlikely narrator is a sixty something year old woman sitting behind a sewing machine talking about her disenfranchised community. According to her, Panamá …
DJ, producer and Major Lazor member Diplo makes a year-end mix for 2013. “I made this mix because I loved 2013 a lot R.I.lP. I’ll miss her,” he tweeted. The mix features Drake, Kanye West, Baauer, King Krule, Rihanna, Young Jeezy, Disclosure and a lot more. Diplo is an interesting and busy dude always globe trotting into something random. He sold a movie loosely based on his life to 20th Century Fox. He flew to Jamaica and produced some Reggae-influenced beats for the Dibble …
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