and we could go there ♫ FM Belfast - Par Avion Iceland's FM Belfast released their debut LP How To Make Friends over 16 months ago in their home country but the album is only now seeing a US release. I've yet to hear the whole album but ever since "Par Avion" landed in my inbox it's been my first class ticket to rum soaked beach parties in my mind. It's no surprise that these guys know the secret to transporting you from [...]
Yeasayer "O.N.E." From Odd Blood Mute / Naïve (2010) Listen to "O.N.E." MP3 The Brooklyn trio are back this February with their second album Odd Blood . Giving a new twist to their experimentalism, Yeasayer have left behind the progressive world beat tip of the 2007 album All Hour Cymbals . On the new release, the band focuses their sites, embracing a more electronic and underground pop sound (inspired, in part, [...]
by greg dybec f In my opinion anything involving Johnny Depp will most likely turn out to be a creative gem. The 46 year old actor/musician/director/produc er/screenwriter will venture out one further to direct a documentary on The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards . Depp's first directorial effort was made in 1997 with the film The Brave starring himself and Marlon Brando. The film was deemed as mediocre and is a hard find in North America. [...]
So, getting an ad in the Super Bowl is like that one episode of 30 Rock when Tracy just buys all the ad space and then is unsure how to fill it? Because here's an ad of Diddy talking up Miami (though Will Smith did it better *) and his new Bad Boy victims Dirty Money. There are literally too many laffs to count here, but my favorite is when he mentions celebrities and then he shows Wilmer Valderrama. I mean, that guy wasn't even a star when he actually was a star. I'm pretty sure most [...]
A rep for Johnny Depp has confirmed that the actor will direct a documentary on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, Variety reports. News of Depp working on a doc about the guitar god first surfaced in an interview with Russia's Politika, where Depp said his editor is in the process of going through miles of archival footage. "I'm very touched that Keith agreed to show up in front of my cameras," Depp said. Depp has long credited Richards for inspiring his portrayal of Capt. Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, and Richards made a surprise [...]
[ myspace ][ web ][ download ] For an independant, launching an album into the public domain requires a far greater leap of faith than someone who has got the funding and distribution power of a big conglomerate behind them. For Celine Carroll, Such A Beautiful Light is the third such leap and it's high time that this Beautiful Light is dazzling , let alone dawning upon, the fogbound blinkered ones sat in the offices of the likes of Sony, EMI. Warner & Co. To make matters easier still for them lot upstairs , this album [...]
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Toronto - This is going to be a fairly lazy review, I will probably pull a Jamie Foxx and name drop a bunch of things here, hoping somehow that in the process, a review will somehow percolate subconsciously in your head and you'll come away from the article thinking this was a good review. Local Natives are a 5 piece band from Los Angeles, California. I thought Local Natives in California were known as Mexicans. HAHA. Maybe that's a sensitive issue, I am not sure. Anyways, they have an album coming out on February 16th, [...]
So yesterday I FINALLY got the latest issue of Wax Poetics in the mail, and it's devoted to Africa with Fela Kuti on one cover and Tony Allen on the other (could you imagine any other poster boys for African music?). While I haven't cracked either cover open yet, it's got me all excited to share a basketful of African music that's been gracing my speakers lately. To start off the safari is Nneka , a Nigerian singer who has since moved to Germany, and who has been making music for the last [...]
What's up this fourth day of Black History Month in the U.S. from the BlackRadioIsBack.com / FuseBox Radio Broadcast crew! I just wanted to share a bit of music off the radar (hopefully soon to a TV, radio and other media outlet near you) with the young, talented fellas of the AfroPunk group The Bots. The Bots represent California and consists of members Mikaiah Lei (16) and Anaiah Lei (13). These young brothers of Afro-Caribbean descent [...]
I'll only say a few words about French-Caribbean Aimé Cesairé's masterful surrealist essay. This is a very important text that is largely overlooked. It deconstructs the psyche of colonialist savagery, slashes the wrist bourgeoisie apathy, and somehow manages to inspire hope at the same time. Originally published in 1950, Discourse 's warnings about the unsurpassed "barbarism of the United States" still holds true today, as can be seen in the insatiable neoliberal quest for global domination. This essay is both a bullet and a band aid, scholarly analysis and creative explosion. You can read the text in full [...]
Oh, dear: having taken inspiration from the drug-addled Keith Richards when crafting his Jack Sparrow persona, Johnny Depp has decided to direct a documentary on the Rolling Stones guitarist, who also appeared in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as Depp's father. "Now that I'm wiser, and that enough time has passed, I can experience directing again," Depp explains. "Already next week I'll start working on a Keith Richards documentary. While I'm in Drvengrad, my editor is already working on kilometers of archive footage and footage of his concerts. I'm very touched that Keith [...]
Kae Sun can count himself amongst the larger-than-I-would-like collective of folks that I meant to cover late last year but didn't get to for one reason or another. I've said that most of the records in that stack were Canadian hip hop, but although Kae Sun's earlier material might've been more hip hop-orientated (and featured him rapping much more), his recently released full-length debut, Lion On A Leash , finds him favouring a more traditional singing style. A number of those songs have a real reggae feel, and so it's no surprise that Kae would try [...]
In Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, the multi-talented Johnny Depp portrayed our favorite drunken pirate stereotype, Captain Jack Sparrow. Soon after, the world learned Depp was taking behavioral cues from a mysterious and ancient source - Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones (those jokes never get...old? Damn it). When an entire generation of young adults worshiped this series of films and cheesy merchandise tie-ins, it indirectly clued them in to a talented band that, by some miracle of modern pharmacology, was still alive and recording. Depp and Richards have become rather close, to the [...]
Wow. At long last it appears that we are within reach of the hip hop Siren of the Bay Joyo Velarde's first full-length! Titled Love and Understanding , it will release on Tuesday 2/16 on Quannum Projects . Joyo's history with Quannum Records starts before Quannum when DJ Shadow, The Gift of Gab, Chief Xcel and Lyrics Born formed Solesides Records where she provided her background vocals to early releases by Lyrics Born, Blackalicious and Lateef. When the crew disbanded Solesides in 1999 and re-emerged as the Quannum Collective we got to hear Joyo as a lead [...]
Johnny Depp famously based his Jack Sparrow character from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, even inviting him to appear in a cameo role in one of the features. Now, Richards is set to have his remarkable life brought to the big screen, in a documentary Depp is directing. The film could potentially be one of the great rock & roll documentaries if it's done right, and Depp is likely to gain access to salacious material that would be off limits to someone without [...]
Between Jack White's recording new music for the Rolling Stones guitarist and today's news that Johnny Depp is directing an upcoming documentary on the man, I'd say Keith Richards' legacy is in pretty good hands. In an interview with Politika (via/translated by the Playlist), Depp dropped the latter bit that he's finally ready to follow up his last middling directing effort, 1997's The Brave. Here's the translation of Depp's comments, which were originally published in Serbian: Now that I'm wiser, and that enough time has passed, I can experience directing again. Already next week I'll start working on [...]
Filed under: News , Movies Not content with basing the character of Jack Sparrow on him in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' films and generally being one of the ageing Rolling Stone's biggest celebrity cheerleaders, Johnny Depp is reportedly making a documentary about his hero, Keith Richards . The two have been friends for a number of years and starred together on screen when Richards joined the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' saga playing the father of Depp's character Sparrow. Depp is quoted on Serbian website [...]
C'è chi si paventa come avvocato delle cause perse e chi tra le cause perse sceglie sempre quelle che non si fila nessuno. Con i Giant Drag e con Annie Hardy è partita 3 anni fa (quanto tempo) una sorta di pen friendship dura a finire. C'è chi è amico con Vasco Rossi, per dire, io sono "amico" di Annie Hardy. Che culo. Lo so. La chiacchierata in questione è la terza (le altre qui e qui e ad un certo punto mi rendo conto possa sembrare ridondante ma a me va così) dopo [...]
Except for the songs that made my Top 20 Songs of 2009, these are the rest of the best electro funk/hip hop/modern caribbean and soul/r&b tracks of 2009. To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2008 and November 30, 2009. 1. K'Naan featuring [...]
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