Solillaquists of Sound is an enigma that has managed to comfortably exist just within the peripheral of pop-culture’s enveloping eye. Based in Orlando, Florida, S.O.S has been touring the world and hustling by their own code for a decade. Right now their trying to get their latest project funded through Kickstarter. Earlier this year we interviewed the MC of the group, Swamburger, here. Also, check out The Giver Series vol. 1, here. The 4th Wall is S.O.S’s third album and it’s the …
Author: Tracy Jones
We recently interviewed MC, producer, studio engineer and label owner Uncommon Nasa, here. His new album Land Of The Way It Is just dropped this month. We asked him to give us his top ten albums, we got 11…in no particular order. He said they represent a “capsule” that made the biggest impact on him. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus Atomic Rooster – Made in England Welcome to the Afterfuture – Mike Ladd Funcrusher Plus – Company Flow Fear …
In Tokyo, Shinjuku Creators Festa 2013 is popping off right now. The 17-day all art everywhere is an ambitious attempt to get heads poked in parts of Shinjuku that otherwise go unexplored by mainstream foot traffic. Special honored guests include poke-a-dot lady Yayoi Kusama and CG artist Yoichiro Kawauguchi. Kusama’s work is ever hypnotizing and unassumingly fascinating. Kawauguchi is a man of his times, but it took decades for the times to catch up to him. If you can read …
Conor Harrington is from Cork, Ireland. According to an Out of Site interview he found graffiti in a National Geographic; and rap through a friend’s cassette tape, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). Having grown up where graffiti was nonexistent, he was still a writer through and through until art school changed his perspective. Harrington’s paintings are a microcosm of styles that, in theory, don’t seem like they would gracefully cross-pollinate. Instead they …
Ip Man aka Yip Man was a Chinese martial artist that lived during the early 1900’s. He taught a slew of students that later became teachers or legends in their own right, including Bruce Lee. In the last five years there’s been a lot of Ip Man films popping up. Movie studios have been taking parts of his life and dramatizing it from different angles. He’s become not so much a franchise more than a cash cow. The newest installment, Ip …