Tag Archive for the term: funk

Loving this song and video for “Raid the Radio” from General Electriks, and it’s so true, the radio is a wasteland 9 times out of 10, lets free the DJ’s. If you like the classic Blackalicious sound, then you love RV, you mebbe just don’t know it yet…

PR:
General Elektriks is the brainchild of Hervé “RV” [...]

It takes confidence and cheek to do a long steady slow funk beat, fill it with the odd grunt and swoosh that promises to break it all down, and then not, and then not, and then not again; but somehow it has built quietly all the way through while you were looking elsewhere and you’re [...]

This is the album that funk mistress Betty Davis recorded at the height of her game in 1976 but which disapeared following disagreements with her label until now. This is the one she wants you to hear, they way she wanted you to hear it, finally.
Never bootlegged, never released, never heard until now, the [...]

It’s a blog party up in here this morning with charts and lists and plots for phenomenal new links and collaborations and big hand claps loving the Phenomenal Hand Clap Band.
http://phenomenalhandclapband.blogspot.com/
From an XLR8R interview with Daniel Collas, co-founder of the New York-based Phenomenal Handclap Band collective:
XLR8R: What other artist would you most like to [...]

The Kalmunity Vibe Collective will be hosting a music and poetry workshop on February 16th, 2009 at Sablo Kafe. We will break down our different approaches to improvised music and poetry through discussions, demonstrations and live organic improvisation. We are inviting all aspiring and professional musicians, singers, rappers and poets to take part in our [...]

from the Kalmunity Vibe Collective…
Bless up everybody!
This Friday January 26 at the SALA ROSA, 4848 St. Laurent, there will be an event not to be missed! For all those who have been waiting to see Montreal’s Kalmunity Collective in a larger venue and share in our plans for 2007, we are presenting:
Fèt La Révolution.
We are [...]