Dutty Geisha

(Awesome Packaging)


(The ring and necklace I grabbed)

My girls over at Wrong Lips did a lil write up about SAKIR aka Dutty Geisha on their blog last month. When I read the post I was immediately drawn to her crafty, sophisticated, funky jewelry that I just had to get me some! Unfortunately the link on Wrong Lips wasn't working but SAKIR saw my comment and hit me up. I'm so happy she did I grabbed a couple of pieces from her and they arrived last night. SAKIR took the time to package the pieces in these individual beautiful envelopes and also included two samples of her oils, which are delicious! Please support this Brooklyn artist and get yourself some one of a kind jewelry. She's having a sale all through April on her Etsy site check it out. Peace & Love to SAKIR!

Black Blondie CD Release Tomorrow Night!

Two years in the making Black Blondie is finally releasing their debut full-length album, Do You Remember Who You Wanted To Be, which has proven to be anything but disappointing. The album is filled with intense emotions of story telling on themes such as self-examination, loss and love along with a wide range of influential sounds such as Jazz, Afro Beat, Dirty Hip-Hop and Soul. Black Blondie also prides themselves on writing all their songs, in other words, they didn’t sample ANYTHING!



Join Samahra Daly, the sassy front woman of Black Blondie, along with other band members Tasha Baron (Keys) and Liz Draper (Bass) tomorrow night at the Triple Rock Social Club to celebrate the release. The show will include opening acts from Ghanaian emcee, M.anifest, Chastity Brown along with her live band and DJ Turtleneck on the tables keeping the crowd moving with his signature mixes of hip-hop, dance and soul music.



Bonus-download “For the Taste” here



Also peep their live performance on NBC yesterday here



Triple Rock Social Club

629 Cedar Ave S

Minneapolis, MN 55454

612.333.7399

What's On Deck?

The El Michels Affair! This group is amazing. I haven't been able to stop listening to this tribute album since I threw it on the computer. The group does cover songs of popular groups like Wu-Tang. Hopefully next week sometime I'll have the leak of the 37 Chambers WuTang cover album, but in the meantime check out this tribute to Isaac Hayes that did.

El Michels Affair - Black Moses -

http://www.zshare.net/download/58446130556eec9d/

Sarah White-"I Wanna Be With You"

Sarah White moved to New York City from Minneapolis almost two years ago to get her solo career rolling. White has been on the grind day and night while building up her name. She's been working with amazing artists, released a solo EP and won the Scion Vocalist contest! We Love you mama! FiveSixPromo just released one of Sarah's underground hits "I Wanna Be With You" as a remix by Rucyl, an amazing producer and visionary. Check it out!

Making Music with Black Blondie

Photograph by France Barbeau





Tonight the Whole Music Club hosts another installment of Making Music, a series of interviews with short performances by local musicians started by James G. Everest. Black Blondie will be the second in the hot seat tonight of the 2009 series. The three ladies will be conversing about growing up, writing songs, and recording their highly acclaimed debut full-length album, Do You Remember Who You Wanted to Be, set to be released this month. The show is free, all ages and open to the public; get there early for guaranteed admission.



Whole Music Club

300 Washington Ave. SE

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Doors: 7PM

Show: 8PM

FREE!

Stack Duckets

Mama is working on a tee shirt for the Stack Duckets clothing company out here in Minneapolis. I FINALLY scanned in the image yesterday and took a quick snap of the sketch after the fact. I'll keep you updated on when it will be out and what it will look like.

PB WOLF Coming to MPLS

Fresh off a successful tour of Europe, PB Wolf, Dam-Funk, Mayer Hawthorne & James Pants are now touring the states & Canada. This is not strictly a "DJ Tour" - James Pants is performing with his band Royal Zodiac, and Mayer Hawthorne will be performing a few songs as well.

4/21: Los Angeles @ Echoplex (Dam-Funk, Mayer Hawthorne, James Pants)
4/22: San Francisco @ Great American Music Hall
4/23: Portland @ Holocene
4/24: Seattle @ Chop Suey
4/28: Minneapolis @ Varsity Theater
4/29: Madison @ High Noon Saloon
4/30: Chicago @ The Abbey Pub
5/1: Toronto @ Revival Bar
5/2: Montreal @ Les Saints
5/3: Princeton NJ @ Terrace Club
5/4: Boston @ Paradise
5/5: Baltimore @ Sonar
5/6: Philly @ North Bowl
5/7: DC @ 930 Club
5/8: NYC @ Natural History Museum
5/9: NYC @ LPR
http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/03/stones-throw-usa-canada-dj-tour

Blaqstarr @ SXSW

Everyone is STILL talkin' about SXSW!! If you didn't make it down there this year like me indulge yourself in this clip of Blaqstarr getting down on the mic. The sound is a bit shotty with a few feedback issues but see what he put out to the crowd and hopefully what we'll all be hearing on his forth coming album.

Green Label Sound Flosstradamus + Caroline Polachek

Green Label has recently release a calbo by Chicago's Flosstradamus and Conneticut's Caroline Polachek. The track is called "Big Bills" and you can download it for free off the Green Label website here.

Walk of Shame

You wake-up in the morning look around and see you're not in your apt/house you're some where else. You walk to the bathroom and your hair is a mess, massacre all over and smeared lipstick on your face. Last night was fun but you don't want to walk out the door in your outfit from last night lookin a fright!


Thanks to the Walk of Shame kit you won't have to worry about that anymore. The kit comes with a dress, flip flops, backpack, sunglasses, pre-pasted toothbrush (sweet), wipes, call/don't call leave behind note card and an awareness bracelet (for breast cancer).

Sophia Fresh-"What It Is"

My homie Karniege out in NYC runs a design company called Big Kidz Design. He and his partner recently worked with T-Pain's female group Sophia Fresh on their "What It Is" video. Check out the fresh graf graphic's Karneige made.

Scion Art Installation 5

Join Scion and Rouge Buddha on Friday April 3rd, 2009 for the opening party of the Installation 5 series that is travel across the United States. The evening will have attending artists: Codak, Eye One and J. Shea along with music by DJs Jonathan Ackerman & Millions Billions.

Peruse the walls of self-portraits by the following artists: AJ Foski, Alex Hornest, Andrew Schoultz, Angela Boatwright, Asylm, Belk Le Rat, Christina M. Felice, Codak, Davie CHoe, David O'Brien, Edwin Ushiro, Elyem, Eriberto Oriol, Eye One, Francesco Locastro, French, Ian Lynam, J. Shea, Jamel Shabazz, Jeff Soto, Kelsey Brookes, Kofie, Lisa Alisa, Logan Hicks, Mark Mothersbaugh, Nicholas Harper, Patrick Martinez, Peter Beste, Peter Glover, Retna, Rick Rodney, Rob Abeyta Jr., Ron English, Saber, Sage Vaughn, Skypage, Something In The Universe, Souther Salazar, Stormie Mills, Tessar Lo, Todd Tourso, Too Tall Jahmal, Usugrow, Will Barras, Yoskay Yamamoto

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Quannum x Reebox

This is a new millennium; a new year and it is even more important that we as consumers express our concerns towards ‘green’ manufacturing. I amongst others am a huge sneaker head so we MUST hold sneaker makers, ESPECIALLY artists that have their logos, labels and or name on a sneaker ACCOUNTABLE!

With that said I would like to bring up the Quannum x Reebox Sneaker Collection. The Quannum x Reebox collection are limited edition sneakers brought to you by Shoe Biz SF, Quannum, Reebox and ShopDJShadow.com. The series of shoes include Quannaum x Reebox, DJ Shadow x Reebox, Blackalicious x Reebox and Latryx x Reebox sneakers. Although these shoes are dope my girl Annette Musick did a little research to find out if they were in fact ‘green.’

Annette contacted ShopDJShadow.com inquiring what kind of materials the shoes were made out of because it would affect her purchase of these shoes. Monica from customer services replied,

“Unfortunately we did not have anything to do with the actual manufacturing of the sneakers, so I’m not sure how they were made. Please contact Reebok, as their company should have more information on the labor conditions and materials used to make the shoes.”

So where do we draw the line or better yet where does an artist draw the line when putting their name on branding? Yes, it would be dope to have your own shoe but do you as an artist support a ‘green’ lifestyle? If so then wouldn’t putting your name on something that isn’t made in a ‘green’ factory out of ‘green’ materials something maybe they should be conscious about? Unfortunately the people at Quannum haven’t taken that step and don’t feel they need to.

Here's the shoes...However, you need to be the judge on wheather or not you purchase them.



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I Want My $25 Back Estelle!!

PHOTO BY DAN CORRIGAN for City Pages

I was so stoked about last Friday's show at First Ave, Estelle. I've been lovin' this girl for a hot min, I even brought my FADER down for her to sign. Well, it turns out Estelle may be too good for people that support her ass. Her attitude was sour and I wasn't extremly impressed with her show either. I'll give it up to her band and singers they were all on point. Estelle, if you ever come across this blog I would appreciate the refund for my ticket of your show in Minneapolis on Feb 27th, 2009 at First Ave.