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Music’s one-man revelation
Felipe Coronel, better known as Immortal Technique, is the closest thing we have to a one-man revolution in music today. Long before the slew of Obama-centric rap that has emerged in the past few months, Technique has been educating and urging listeners to become active participants in their politics and global community. While the line [...]
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Spicing up D.C. with that Caribbean flavor
Washington, D.C. celebrated its 16th Annual Caribbean Carnival this past June, during a two-day festival held on the 28th and 29th of the month. Caribbean bands and dancers decked out in colorful costumes laden with feathers, topped with exotic headdresses, swarmed the Georgia Avenue, NW, corridor during the first-day parade.
The festivities kicked off at 11 [...]
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New York Report: Byrne building gets played
Last month, Carina Giamerese wrote a note about Playing the Building, an installation by David Byrne in New York City’s Battery Maritime Building. Recently I was lucky enough to visit Byrne’s installation, with Carina and some other friends and fellow interns, to play the building myself.
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POST-IT REVIEW: LA Riots remix Kid Sister
Kid Sister’s radio-friendly Pro Nails featuring Kanye West was fun and infectious and all, but this Control remix made it physically impossible for me to sit in my chair. I swear, one of these days a Kid Sister induced dance party while driving is going to make me crash into a telephone pole. The hook [...]
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SOUND OF THE CITY: What is go-go?
If the word “go-go” brings you back to days of feathered haircuts, tight white jeans, and makes you want to start swaying your hips whilst snapping your fingers, I really couldn’t blame you.
The word “go-go” seems more befitting to an iconic American girl-group or a teenage George Michael than it does to a music movement [...]
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When that phone call comes, you run—straight into Harlem: Pursuit of the next big hip hop star
NPR took me from 0-60mph in about 2 seconds, only to brake suddenly, drop me off in the middle of Harlem and say, albeit lovingly, “Welcome to the world of journalism, kid.”
After only 1.5 days in DC, I boarded a bus at 11th and G at 7 pm on Saturday, and rolled into Penn Station, [...]
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