Yesterday, through their Kickstarter campaign, filmmaker Rosylyn Rhee and company reached their goal of raising $50,000 for their documentary, Supernatural. …
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Last Friday Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Teebs, Taylor McFerrin and Mono/Poly played Tokyo, Skinkiba at ageHa. No cameras were allowed. Foreigners were spotted throughout the crowd. When I walked into the venue Simi Lab, a Japanese hip-hop group was on stage. Man, they tried, but their music and performance didn’t offer anything original. It just wasn’t interesting, but at least they weren’t embarrassing. I wasn’t cringing, put it that way. Artist and producer Teebs greeted the crowd with a Japanese thank …
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Roxiny “HERO” – Roxiny (pronounced Rox-E-n-E) is a Dominican born singer/songwriter/producer based out of NYC. Her style of music can be described as experimental pop, dream pop, electro, on the wavelength of the current future pop movement (combining the singer/songwriter aesthetics with electronic music production styles). Checkout her recently released track called “Hero,” the music video and song reminds me of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Games”. For more info on her music check Roxiny’s website and various social media under the handle …
Milestone Media and comics began in 1993 by four successful black comic writers, illustrators, editors, and publishers: Dwayne McDuffie (RIP), Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. Dingle. In the beginning they created black characters for their universe “Dakotaverse” (in a fictional Midwestern city called Dakota) but soon expanded to having characters of other ethnicities (Asian, Latino, and White) as well as characters of various class, gender, sexuality, and political beliefs. The founders of Milestone didn’t want to be pigeon holed as a company that …
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