The Leader Of Hip-Hop’s Tea Party Movement : NPR

Jay Smooth on Waka:

Waka Flocka Flame simply shouts the simplest couplets imaginable at the top of his lungs, often mixed with wordless grunts and growls and screams over a beat that sounds like the marching band that would come with the four horsemen of the apocalypse as they destroy the earth.

story. transcript.  ‘Hard in da Paint’ is produced by Lex Luger.

What will you listen to, during the apocalypse?

New Work Miami 2010 @ MAM

Miami Art Museum

New Work Miami 2010 presents recent & never-before-seen works by Miami-based artists.

Featuring a new performance by the TM Sisters: “With Out You, Babe”, spoken word poetry & music by Oscar Fuentes and the Gipsy Catz, plus a live AM radio broadcast in the gallery by Talking Head Transmitters.

MAM members free, non-members $20

To join call MAM’s membership department at 305.375.1709 or join online.

Date/Time:
07/17/10 06:00PM – 09:00PM

Location:
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130

The participating artists:

Maria José Arjona, Kevin Arrow, Beings, Jenny Brillhart, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Flash orchestra, Frozen Music, Oscar Fuentes & the Gipsy Catz, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Jacuzzi Boys, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Ana Mendez (with Aja Albertson & Richard Vergez), Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Poem Depot, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Bert Rodriguez, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Humberto Torres, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Michael Vasquez, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.

mam invitation
mam invitation

Alan Lomax : Haiti

The Alan Lomax Collection, which is part of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, is releasing a box set of music from 1930s Haiti.

Alan Lomax made an impressive career out of recording folk music all over the world; bringing it to American audiences, and preserving it for posterity. But few people heard the recordings that Lomax made in Haiti in the 1930’s. This month (Nov 17th) those Haiti recordings will be released to the public for the first time in the form of a 10-CD box set.

via http://www.theworld.org/2009/11/02/global-hit-alan-lomax/

NPR covered this story as well.

Hartre Recordings is actually releasing the box set. They offer a sample.

Afropop Worldwide has a review.

And Alan Lomax facebook page, maintained by the Association for Cultural Equity.