October 2008 Blog Posts (55)

Check out K'NAAN on mp3.com

Our very own troubadour is setting up shop at mp3.com. Head over to check out the EPK and some new tracks. Let people know if yer feelin it.

Added by D-E-F on October 10, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

K’NAAN SET TO TELL THE SOMALI STORY / US DATES

Check out the full story below:
http://skopemag.com/2008/09/28/knaan-set-to-tell-the-somali-story-us-dates

Added by D-E-F on October 10, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

K'NAAN on CNET's music downloads

Check out the full site below. Let everyone know what you think of our man K'NAAN

http://music.download.com/knaan/3600-8520-101122226.html?tag=MDL_quickurl

Added by D-E-F on October 9, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

K'NAAN - Featured on Windows Media Guide

Added by D-E-F on October 9, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Bad Boys!

This story broke over a week ago but because I was a whole 4 minutes late to watching the debate, it went over my head. This is absolutely shameful. Found this Slate Magazine.

Can Paulson Fire Naughty Executives? How much control does the Treasury have over personnel at AIG?

By Juliet Lapidos

Posted Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008, at 5:14 PM ET

A week after the… Continue

Added by Jessica Sagert on October 9, 2008 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Kangol Keeps It Real On Their 70th Anniversary

http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/10/03/kangol-keeps-it-real-on-their-70th-anniversary/

n honor of their 70th Anniversary, O.G. hat purveyor Kangol continues to stay relevant with hip-hop heads and streetwear kids alike. To commemorate such a large milestone, the cap company is dropping a limited edition hat in the classic “504″ silhouette. The iconic domepiece gets its name from the original wooden block shape on which the hat is made. The 504 will… Continue

Added by D-E-F on October 9, 2008 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Banksy Scores Again...

Why is Banksy so impressive? Oh, because he brings art back to accessible wit for the public. Because he has obvious technical skill. Because his lack of pretension is so appreciated in the current art market. Thanks to Wooster Collective for providing me with my daily dose of inspiring public art. Check it out.

While New Yorkers have been consumed by the stock market meltdown, a… Continue

Added by Giant Step on October 9, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

HIP-HOP PRESERVED AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

http://sohh.com/2008/10/hip-hop_preserved_at_corn.html

Hip-Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa will help preserve the genre's origins by joining in festivities and celebrating the "Born in the Bronx: The Legacy and Evolution of Hip Hop" collection at Cornell University later this month.

The free two-day conference will showcase documents from the early days of hip-hop including recordings, photographs, posters and more. Famous for being one of the first hip-hop… Continue

Added by D-E-F on October 8, 2008 at 4:04pm — No Comments

Benazir Bhutto: 'One Day' in a mother's life

Benazir Bhutto: 'One Day' in a mother's life

The late Pakistani prime minister on balancing her public and private duties

By Benazir Bhutto

TODAY

updated 5:24 p.m. ET, Tues., Oct. 7, 2008

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, once the chair of the center-left Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. She was… Continue

Added by Giant Step on October 8, 2008 at 11:29am — 1 Comment

Check Point: Fact Checkers Clear Up Misreresentations from 2nd Debate

October 7, 2008, 9:51 pm

Check Point: The Second Presidential Debate

By The New York Times

The Times’s Peter Baker, Julie Bosman, Kitty Bennett, Jackie Calmes, Michael Luo, Robert Pear, Andrew Revkin, Larry Rohter, Kevin Sack, David E. Sanger, Matthew L. Wald and Jeff Zeleny are examining the policies and statements of Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama in… Continue

Added by Giant Step on October 8, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

2 Volumes of Tito Puente's The Complete 78s

Fania Records compiles some of the best, and rarest works from the legend Tito Puente with The Complete 78s four volume series. Born and raised in Spanish Harlem, Tito Puente was known around the world as "The Timbal King," but he was also skilled at the bateria, congas, claves, piano, saxophone, and clarinet. Puente received the highest awards, distinctions, and praise for his more than 100 albums, 400 compositions, and countless arrangements for diverse artists and musical genres. Among those… Continue

Added by Giant Step on October 7, 2008 at 1:17pm — No Comments

"The Choice" - The best article I have read on the US election so far.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors

The Choice

October 13, 2008

Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching—that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has—at the levels of competence,… Continue

Added by Jessica Sagert on October 7, 2008 at 12:42pm — No Comments

That's The Break/s, Kid

http://www.okayplayer.com/stories/misc/that_s-the-break_of_s,-kid-200809306537/

Accurately titled, the break/s is the fractured story of poet, teacher and hip-hop head, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, as he chronicles the role of hip-hop and poetry in his life. Traveling around the world from America’s Midwest to Tokyo to Cuba teaching classes about the music he loves, Joseph examines the influence hip-hop has on the international scene and how his own relationship to the… Continue

Added by D-E-F on October 3, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

The Holy House of Hip-hop

On August 11, 1973, D.J. Kool Herc didn’t know he was revolutionizing pop music— he was just trying to keep people dancing. The rec room where it all went down might have been forgotten, until it became a battleground for the future of affordable housing

On August 11, 1973, in the rec room in an unassuming brick apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, hard by the Major Deegan Expressway, a 16-year-old Jamaican immigrant changed pop music forever. This is the… Continue

Added by D-E-F on October 3, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments