Random Celebritiisms
(MC) Hammer has a new blog. Here’s his latest entry: This week I ‘m going to hit the weights some more and perfect a few new moves I’ve been working on. This is a good time of year to workout.…
Natalie Portman Rap on SNL
Another SNL instant classic last night as the Lonely Island guys presented a digital short. Natalie Portman’s profane raps, Andy Samberg dressed as a viking… They’re on a roll! Watch this before NBC pulls them off of You Tube like…
New X Clan in 06
In the early 90’s, X Clan exploded on the hip hop scene with two kick-ass Parliament / Funkadelic-laden, afrocentric, hard hitting albums: ‘To the East, Blackwards’, and ‘Xodus’. Now, after a long hiatus, in which member Brother J formed a…
Stoned with Lewis Taylor
You wanna hear some funky, contemporary British soul? I just found out about Lewis Taylor. He’s a multi-instrumental artist born and raised in Barnet, North London. He’s been making music for a good while (since the 80’s), including some years…
Controversy Remix
Here’s a cool uncredited remix of “Controversy” that I recently came across. It makes an extremely funkalicious song even more funkalicious. ‘Controversy’ was Prince’s fourth album, released in 1981, sandwiched between ‘Dirty Mind’ and ‘1999’. The funky hook of the…
A Different Look at Brazil
Photographer Geoffrey Hiller has an amazing collection of photographs from a recent trip to Brazil in a web project entitled Canto de Brazil. The site is made up of about 30 minutes of Flash movies highlighting different areas of Brazil,…