Category: Music
Moving on the Wires: Black Women From the Future, Griotworks, CCCADI, Jimi Hendrix, Erykh Badu…
*Kwan Booth, who edited Black Futurist Speaks, is hosting Black Women From the Future event in Oakland, California on Saturday in celebration of both Black History Month and Woman’s History Month in March. Today is Nina Simone’s birthday, so it’s perfect timing. For more information on the event and the artists featured, click here. * […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Black Women From the Future, Griotworks, CCCADI, Jimi Hendrix, Erykh Badu…Otherworldly Videos: And We Dance…
RAS (Riders Against the Storm) – Everybody Wannabe (with Ballet Afrique dancers) Watch the behind-the-scenes video.
Read More Otherworldly Videos: And We Dance…Moving on the Wires: The Liberator Magazine, El Anatsui, Anti-Robot Radio, Mother Tongue Monologues
*The Liberator Magazine released their latest issue, “The Last Generation of Black People.” My essay, “The Percussive Approach,” is one of the writings featured. Buy a copy here. *Accra dot Alt announced El Anatsui’s exhibition “Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui” will be at Brooklyn Museum Also, go to Accra dot Alt for […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: The Liberator Magazine, El Anatsui, Anti-Robot Radio, Mother Tongue MonologuesModern Griots Review: Pegasus Warning’s “Woof Ticket”
The songs on Pegasus Warning’s latest EP, Woof Ticket, has a yearning to them. Just like the title of the first track “Acoustic,” his voice and the music desire a sensual, acoustic feel, but the electronic format of the music simultaneously dismembers and distorts singer, Guillermo E. Brown, taking him away from it. Like double […]
Read More Modern Griots Review: Pegasus Warning’s “Woof Ticket”Otherworldly Videos: The Love in the Dance
Freshlyground – “Take Me to the Dance” Pegasus Warning – “Try So Hard” Directed by Wangechi Mutu
Read More Otherworldly Videos: The Love in the DanceMoving on the Wires: Black Science Fiction Festival, Alien Bodies, Blitz the Ambassador and The Last Poets, NYU Black Surrealism Conference…
*Black Science Fiction Film Festival on February 7th in Atlanta, Georgia. Watch clip below: *The Alien Bodies: Race, Space and Sex in the African Diaspora Conference will be taking place at Emory University on February 8-9 in Atlanta Georgia. Sadly, I won’t be there, but at least it will be recorded for later viewing. Also, […]
Read More Moving on the Wires: Black Science Fiction Festival, Alien Bodies, Blitz the Ambassador and The Last Poets, NYU Black Surrealism Conference…Modern Griots Reviews: Music To Space Out To…
Funkadelic/Wefunk International (Clip Payne and 420 FUNK MOB) – Eve of the Emperor Although George Clinton was forced to give away some of his legendary music to settle a debt, he and Funkadelic released some new music. Playing off the “emperor has no clothes” with the “emperor has no clones,” funkadelic is still funkatizing the […]
Read More Modern Griots Reviews: Music To Space Out To…Behind the Mask: Isaac Hayes
Yesterday, I watched Isaac Hayes’ Unsung on TV One and one thing that stood out to me about Hayes besides his musical talent was his fashion sense. The man who co-wrote the superhero lover songs like “Hold On, I’m Coming” and “Soul Man” for Sam and Dave, had his own particular smooth style. For a […]
Read More Behind the Mask: Isaac HayesOtherwordly Videos: Cody ChesnuTT’s “Till I Met Thee”
Cody ChestnuTT’s “Till I Met Thee” was directed by Terence Nance and features Ellie Foumbi from the short film Say Grace Before Drowning. Read Shamira Muhammad‘s interview with him on Africa is a Country’s (the name is a joke).
Read More Otherwordly Videos: Cody ChesnuTT’s “Till I Met Thee”
Sherese Francis 