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, …
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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, …
Here is the online stream of Finding The Funk, a documentary on funk music that aired recently on Vh1 as part of it’s Rock Doc series. The film is by Nelson George (Author, journalist, film maker, music and cultural critic) with narrations from The Root’s Questlove, featuring D’Angelo, George Clinton, Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins, Nile Rodgers, professor Michael Eric Dyson, and many more. This funk edutainment project was a 6-7 year labor of love, so enjoy and soak up the music knowledge below. …
One of the great emcees of Hip-Hop passed on 14 years ago today February 7th. Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), whose name is mentioned along side other great emcees such as Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Tupac, and The Notorious B.I.G. A skilled emcee, known for his use of alliteration, internal and multi-syllabic rhyming schemes, who at the time of his passing had two albums out; Capital Punishment (1998) and Yeeeah Baby (2000). Pun passed away while his music career was just about to take off …
Sharing the same birthday as J Dilla today February 7th, is Japanese producer/DJ Nujabes. He too has passed on, from a tragic car accident in Tokyo, Japan on February 26, 2010. Nujabes’ sound is melodic, mellow, nostalgic and atmospheric. Nujabes also collaborated with many American Hip-Hop artists such CYNE, Cise Starr, Apani B, Five Deez, Substantial, CL Smooth, Fat Jon, Terry Callier as well as British rapper Funky DL. He was also part of the production duo Urbanforest with Nao T. Nujabes and fellow Japanese rapper/producer Shing02 collaborated on a popluar series …
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