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, …
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If you haven’t heard Thundercat’s 2013 opus album Apocalypse, press play, it’s an “unskippable” listen. Virtuoso bassist and singer songwriter Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat just relaesed a double video for “Evangelion” and “We’ll Die” off Apocalypse. The video was directed by legendary photographer B+. He also shot the album cover art and has apparently been hanging out with the Brainfeeder crew in the studio while they crank out ill crafted gems one after another. The video shows a daper dressed Thundercat walking around …
In the short documentary, “Words By Rakim,” filmmaker Matt Bieler crafts a motion picture ode to the God, one of the most, if not the most influential MC to ever bless the mic, rapper and producer Rakim. When you think about internal rhymes, double and triple time flow patterns, not to mention ill concepts and vivid story telling, you’re thinking about Rakim. The film shows the A and B side of a man, his personal life, and his artistic output. …
This is an ill time lapse of street artist INTI painting a gynormous mural in Puerto Rico. Peep the bullets in the corner laying in front of a blood red heart. The nun’s bottom hand near the gun’s handle is tattooed with currency symbols: Japanese yen, American dollar and Euro. Shorty’s international, an intelligent hoodlum. Her prayer beads are jalapeno. She gotta a hot hand, gambling her life for c.r.e.a.m. So fresh. Tost films, a small production company in Puerto …
Recently George Clooney wrote and directed The Monuments Men, a true story about a World War II platoon, requested by FDR, to go into Nazi Germany and recover artistic masterpieces. Clooney’s vision of the war story, from what I’ve heard, despite its low Rotten Tomatoes rating, is “engaging,” but restrained. The 2006 PBS documentary, based on the 1994 book, The Rape of Europa is ridiculous. Rejected by Austria’s top art academies, it portrays Hitler as a frustrated artist that sought to …
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