Thursday, September 30, 2010

Electric Wire Hustle In SF!

About Electric Wire Hustle:

A New Zealand trio consisting of Mara TK, Taay Ninh, and Myele Manzanza who have grown from a following in their native city of Wellington, NZ to currently touring the world and earning heavy play from Benji B (1XTRA) and Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio) amongst other tastemakers as well as finding a home with influential label BBE (Barely Breaking Even). They bring their soulful and psychedelic take on electronic music to the United States with their North American debut in Los Angeles and finally here in San Francisco.

Jesse Boykins III:

Music heads who are keen on emerging soul acts should be familiar with Jesse Boykins III. Though only in his early 20's, he's put out 2 buzz-worthy albums alongside well recieved collobarations with both Foreign Exchange & Theophilus London. The latter was named one of thee best songs of 2009 via Gilles Peterson.



About SOM (The Venue):

Though only 11 months old, they've pulled to the front of the pack of San Francisco clubs by consistently bringing upcoming acts and established artists from from all genres and from different parts of globe. Such artists have included Kenny Dope, Pete Rock, Quadron, Gaslamp Killer, DJ Harvey, Benji B, and many more.
Event Information
Friday October 15, 2010
10:00 pm - 2:00 am
21+
Cover: $10.00
Music: All Styles
RSVP Email: info@som-bar.com

Aloe Blacc covers The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale”

Aloe Blacc covers The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” from the album Good Things, available now.

Presented By - What Matters Most and Aloe Blacc
Directed By - Alan Algee
Edited By - Alan Algee
Photography by - Alan Algee, Oji Singletary, Kahlil Joseph, Mattew J. Lloyd, Ryan Kuhlman
Produced by - Omid Fatemi for What Matters Most
Styled by - Davia and Earl Hunter for Style Via Davia
Music by - Aloe Blacc
Executive Production - Havana Joe and Paul Chang

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Hawthorne Headhunters Mixtape

HVW8 RECORDS x FRESH SELECTS present…
Hawthorne Headhunters Mixtape
Mixed by DJ Needles


 For those of you who still don’t know, HH is a three-headed production/vocal beast consisting of Stoney Rock (better known as Black Spade), Ced No (or I, CED when he’s solo) and Proh Mic.

FAT BEATS: A Retrospective

Monday, September 27, 2010

Facing East : The Music of John Coltrane by José James & Jef Neve (23 september 2009)

Yahzarah - Cry Over You

SPINE TV PODCAST EPISODE 2 - ALOE BLACC

POSTED: Sept. 27, 2010 by Spinetv

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Following on from last month's premiere of our Spine TV Podcast with producer extraordinaire Just Blaze, we are proud to present the second installment featuring the words and sounds of Aloe Blacc.

For this episode, with a lot of help from the Fact Magazine crew, we ventured deep into the bowels of the Vinyl Factory building in Soho to grab 20 minutes with the man himself just before his in-store performance at Phonica.

Wearing the snazziest suit we've seen in a long time, Aloe talked about Emanon and his beginnings as an emcee, meeting the Stones Throw family whilst filling Madlib's seat on the Lootpack tourbus,  the Brazilian influence on his debut album Shine Through, and choosing the definitive sound for his latest release on Stones ThrowGood Things. As well as dropping a new album this week, Aloe is kickstarting his European tour with a show at Paradiso in Amsterdam on Wednesday.




Delivered monthly, the Spine TV podcast series features in-depth interviews with some of our favourite artists, producers, musicians and rappers. Coming soon: Ty and Mayer Hawthorne.

You can subscribe to this podcast series via RSS here or if you want to try before you buy, just listen / download Episode 1 here. iTunes users fall back - you'll be able to subscribe soon enough.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

SpineTV : Blog : TIM MAIA: MUSIC AND MADNESS

TIM MAIA: MUSIC AND MADNESS

Click to view full size Tim Maia (1942 – 1998) pioneered Brazilian soul music, pushing an authentic fusion of black American R&B and traditional Brazilian pop over a long and domestically celebrated career. He was everything star performers weren’t, and are even less likely to be now – he was fat, eccentric, wild, liked to drink and take drugs openly, and was prone to unpredictable lifestyle changes. His creativity fuelled by an eye-opening jaunt to the US as a teenager in the 1960s, his music was a novel integration of things as Brazilian as MPB and as American as Motown, full of grand arrangements within the radio-convenient format of sub-three minute pop songs. His string of early 1970s albums for Polydor were all huge chart hits, turning the Carioca singer, composer and musician into a local icon.






Delving into his early catalogue isn’t straightforward as a lot of his records are long out of print, and most are just titled Tim Maia. After enjoying four successful albums and the trappings of rock star success that awaited backstage, things took a left turn and he was quickly sucked in to a bizarre Brazilian sect called Racional Culture which proclaimed humans weren’t from earth and should return to their home planet. Obviously, eager to distance themselves from his madcap and unexpected proclamations, Polydor dropped him, leaving the star to put out his next record on the tiny Seroma label. Whilst during this period he may have lost his mind, he certainly lost none of his musical nous, and Racional (1975) is some of his best work, if you can block out the tripped out lyrics and the clear sense that he’s completely consumed by the sect’s alien ethic. But as quickly as he was devoured by the UFO-fearing schism, he shrugged it all off, and to show he was again of relatively sound mind produced sobering masterpieces like ‘Nobody Can Live Forever’ (1976).





Unhealthy and overweight, he died in 1998, aged just 55. Today, his nephew Ed Motta is another musical prodigy. His story is told in the biography Vale Tudo - O Som e a Fúria de Tim Maia, penned by his friend Nelson Motta. It’s only available in Portuguese, though, and an English translation is unlikely until Maia’s legacy as one of the seventies’ most important composers is more widely recognised.



Monday, September 20, 2010

ROY AYERS SOUL JAZZ LEGEND MAKES YOSHI'S DEBUT!

JUST ANNOUNCED!
ROY AYERS

SOUL JAZZ LEGEND MAKES YOSHI'S DEBUT!

"ROY AYERS IS THE KING OF NEO SOUL MUSIC"- ERYKAH BADU
Roy Ayers

Friday October 1
Yoshi's San Francisco

Get Tickets

Watch Roy Ayers perform his classic "Everybody Loves the Sunshine"
HERE

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Old Favorites

Top 50 Albums of 2009

1.Lee Fields - My World
2.Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution:The Age of Love
3.Shawn Lee - Soul in the Hole
4.Build An Ark - Love pt. 1
5.Mos Def - the Ecstatic
6.Brother Ali - US
7.Mulatu Astatke/Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information vol 3
8.Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
9.Shafiq - En a Free Ka
10.Nicola Conte - Rituals
11.Willie Isz - Georgiavania
12.Eric Roberson - Music Fan First
13.Electric Wire Hustle - s/t
14.Raah Project - Score
15.Fashawn - Boy Meets World
16.Stephen Marley - Mind Control Acoustic
17.Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo
18.Sene & blu - A Day Late & a Dollar Short
19. Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract
20.Gilles Peterson - Havana Cultura
21.Tribe - Rebirth
22.Phil Ranelin - Reminiscence Live
23.El Michels Affair - Enter the 37th Chamber
24.Bk-One - Radio Do Canibal
25.Chin Chin - Flashing, the fancing
26.Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement
27.Dela - Changes of Atmosphere
28.Fat Freddys Drop - Dr  Boondigga and the Big BW
29.Julien Dyne - Pins & Digits
30.Dam-Funk - toeachizown
31.Qauntic & His Combo Barbaro - Traditions in Transition
32.Cro-Magnon - Plays
33.Little Dragon - Machine Dreams
34. Mr. Lif - I Heard it Today
35.PPP - Abundance
36.Freeway - Streetz Is Mine
37.Memphis Sounds - Ike's Moods
38.Alice Russell - Pot of Gold:Remixes
39.Ocote Soul Sounds - Coconut Rock
40.Fink - Sort of Revolution
41.Blame One & Exile - Days Chasing Days
42.BlakRoc - s/t
43.Exile - Radio
44.Emanative - Space
45.Wale - Attention Deficit
46.Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin - Music is my Medicine
47.Joy Jones - Godchild
48.Dj Spinna - Sonicsmash
49.Souls of Mischief - Montezuma's Revenge
50.Zion I - Take Over

Top 20 Songs of 2009

1. Georgia Anne Muldrow -Roses
2. Meshell Ndegeocello - Love you down
3. Tanya Morgan - So Damn Down
4. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
5. Nino Moschella - Looking at your face
6. Chin Chin - go there with you
7. Eric Roberson - the Newness
8. Diverse - Escape Earth
9. Mayer Hawthorne - Green eyed Love
10.Willie Isz - I didn't mean to
11.Nicola Conte - Karma Flower
12.Stephen Marley - Someone to Love
13.Slakah the Beatchild - Enjoy Ya self
14.PPP - Pigeon Hole
15. Alchemist - Smile
16. Fashawn - Life as a shorty
17. Grouch & Eligh ft Blu & Flying Lotus - Old Souls
18. Dela - How to Fish
19.Dj Vadim - Soldier
20.Mos Def - Auditorium

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Bilal

BILAL 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
Sep 14 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
Sep 15 Boston, MA – Scullers Jazz Club
Sep 18 New York, NY – B.B. King’s Blues Club
Sep 19 Washington, DC – Birchmere
Sep 20 New York, NY – Tillman’s (acoustic)
Sep 21 Toronto – Revival
Sep 23 Ottawa – Revival
Sep 25 Montreal – La Sala Rossa
Oct 14 Portland, OR – Someday Lounge
Oct 16 Seattle, WA – Nectar Lounge
Oct 20 Sacramento, CA – Harlos
Oct 21 San Joseph Babineaux – Landmark Ballroom
Oct 22 Oakland, CA – Yoshi’s Jazz Club
Oct 23 Oakland, CA – Yoshi’s Jazz Club
Oct 27 Fullerton, CA – Common Wealth Lounge
Oct 28 Los Angeles, CA – Echo Plex

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Fatbeats Final In-Stores

Blunt Soul

1.Stevie Wonder vs. Erik Rico - 2 High
2.Plant Life - We Can Get High
3.Ben Westbeech - So Good Today
4.N'Dambi - Day Dreamer
5.Anthony David - Smoke One
6.Faze-O - Riding High (The Army of Love Rmx)
7.Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Come Smoke My Herb
8.Raphael Saadiq - OPH
9.Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Sweet Sour You
10.D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
11.Sleepy's Theme - Still Smokin'
12.John Legend - Let's Get Lifted
13.Dj Cam - Elevation
14.Breakthrough ft. Bembe Segue - Green Like The Sun
15.Orgone - I Get Lifted
16.Rick James - Below The Funk (Pass The J)

My Mic Sounds Nice

Just saw this new doc on BET. It's kinda the shit. It features all my favorite female MCs; Medusa, Lady Bug Mecca, Jean Grae and more! Check it Out!

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

B. Lewis - La Semaine

<a href="http://blewis.bandcamp.com/album/la-semaine">Day 1: The Downslope by B.Lewis</a>

Mo Blu

TheMashUp.Net Brings us an interview with Blu at the show he performed this past month in Sac. Looking forward to the new album! TheMashUp has been bringing great shows to Sac, keep an eye out!

Blu x TheMashUP.Net Interview (Video) from themashup916 on Vimeo.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

New Foreign Exchange!!!

Audio: The Foreign Exchange "Maybe She'll Dream of Me"

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson: Drips/Take Notice


Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble "Drips/Take Notice" feat Flying Lotus from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on Vimeo.

<a href="http://miguelatwood-ferguson.bandcamp.com/track/drips-take-notice">Drips/Take Notice by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson</a>

Produced by: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson 
Co-Produced by Andrew Lojero 

Recorded by: Benjamin Tierney 

Mixed by: 
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Benjamin Tierney 

Flying Lotus (laptop) 
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin) 
Evan Francis (flute) 
Dontae Winslow (trumpet) 
Joey Dosik (alto sax) 
Kamasi Washington (tenor sax) 
Garrett Smith (trombone) 
Rebekah Raff (harp) 
Marcel Camargo (guitar) 
Brandon Coleman (keys) 
Stephen 'Thundercat' Bruner (bass) 
Chris 'Daddy' Dave (drums) 
Nikki Campbell (percussion)