Buju Banton, Wanna Be Loved
Props to the wonderfully cute and big brained Etta Strange for the inspiration. We were talking the other day and she surprised me by playing this Buju vid, hands down one of my favorite songs of all time. So in her honor, here are [...]
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Video for the Strange: Buju, Parliament, Miles and the gang…
Posted in Music, Video, tagged , Buju Banton, D'Angelo, Etta Strange, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Parliament, Rick James on November 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
New Sharon Jones vid & old Betty, Fontella and Dinah
Posted in Music, Video, tagged Betty Davis, Dinah Washington, Fontella Bass, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is the new video from Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings song “100 Days, 100 Nights”. I’ve always been a fan and the way they shot this works perfectly with the song.
The video brings to mind a lot of old soul-that funky, moanin’, good lovin’ that hurt so bad kinda soul, so [...]
Photos: Clarion Alley Block Party
Posted in Art, Music, Photos, San Francisco, tagged , Art, Clarion Alley, Graffiti, Mural, San Francisco, Street Art on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
San Francisco’s Clarion Alley holds a legendary space among muralists. The block long alley between Mission and Valencia has been provided a home to the cities painters since the 60’s. Every year the Clarion Alley Mural Project hosts a two day mural celebration with selected artists updating the alley on Saturday and an all out [...]
San Francisco Love Fest-the pics
Posted in Art, Music, Novoscene, Photos, tagged Love Fest, Love Parade, Pictures, San Francisco on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There were good feelings oozing all over the streets of downtown SF Saturday. The 3rd annual San Francisco LoveFest was a feast of techy beats from local sound systems and the Bay’s most colorful, musical and naked party people. Check the pics and soak up some of that lovin’. -kwan
Folsom Street Fair Pics-from Novoscene
Posted in Art, Kink, Music, Novoscene, Photos, San Francisco, tagged BDSM, Festivals, Folsom Street Fair, Kink, Photos on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Aaah Folsom Street. The annual celebration of all things freaky and sexy. The air was full of bass and the wacks of countless paddles on countless asses as leathermen, twinks, doms, subs and all manner of kinky kinksters came out to celebrate and strut their naked stuff. -kwan
NetRadio: The Day the Music Died, Maybe
Posted in Activism, Media, Music, News, Technology on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Day the Music Died, Maybe
By Kwan Booth
July 15 could mark the end of the web as we hear it. That is the day new royalty rates take effect for Internet radio stations based in the United States. Opponents say the new fees, which will increase the yearly amount paid by Internet broadcasters [...]
PeaceOut HomoHop Festival
Posted in Features, Music, tagged "Deep Dickollective", "homo hop", "Juba kamalamka", Peaceout on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
PeaceOut Festival Brings Homo Hop to the world
By Kwan Booth (September 22, 2007-Bay Area Reporter)
In the 7 years since its inception, the PeaceOut Festival has come a long way. When the small group of LGBT hip hop performers and fans gathered together in Oakland’s DeFremery Park in 2001, no one knew that it would [...]
Kenyan Hip Hop Comes to Oakland
Posted in Interviews, Music on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Kenyan Hip Hop in Oakland
By Kwan Booth
For the last three years, Emerge Media Group has produced events promoting positive interactions between African and American Cultures. In 2005 the company produced the film “Hip Hop Colony”, documenting Kenya’s developing hip hop scene. This Saturday they’re sponsoring three of Kenya’s biggest hip hop acts on [...]
Kenya’s Hip Hop Colony
Posted in Film, Interviews, Media, Music, tagged , "hip hop colony" "Michael Wanguhu", "Russell Kenya" on September 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hip Hop Colony: The African Hip Hop Explosion
By Kwan Booth (October 06, 2005-Whatchusay.com)
Hip Hop Colony, the new film by Director Michael Wanguhu and Russell Kenya, explores the emergence of Kenyan Hip Hop culture and it’s struggles to gain legitimacy. The film screened recently at the Oakland International Film Festival and I talked to the [...]
Festivals Combine Hip Hop and Education
Posted in Activism, Art, Music, News on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Weekend Festivals Combine Hip Hop and Education
By Kwan Booth
All across the country, educators are seeing the benefits of using Hip Hop and youth culture as educational tools. While many older institutional figures continue to clamor about the music’s social significance and graphic sexual depictions, many young educators, many of whom have grown up in the [...]
Hip Hop, Chess and Martial Arts
Posted in Activism, Music, News on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Power Moves: Combining Hip Hop Chess and Martial Arts
By Kwan Booth
Staff Writer
Ever since the 1993 album “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” brought kung fu samples and chess metaphors into hip hop’s vocabulary, the culture has harbored a deep fascination for both martial arts and The Game of Kings.
“There are so many rappers who [...]
Katrina Survivors: “We Want our money”
Posted in Activism, Art, Music, News, tagged , "Malcolm X Grassroots Movement", "Moses Music", "Talib Kweli", Katrina on September 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Journalist Davey D interviews Talib Kweli during the Hurricane Katrina Fundraiser Saturday at Moses Music. Photo by D-Ray Archer. www.myspace.com/dray813
Katrina Survivors: “We Want our money”
Artists and organizers raise funds for victims
By Kwan Booth
Staff Writer
By all estimates the Bay Area houses as many as 2000 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. They are living [...]
