D’Angelo does his first TV interview in a decade in a New Jersey hotel for the documentary Finding the Funk. Touring around the country on a bill with Mary J. Blige and finishing work on his first album in twelve years, D is making a welcome return to performing. He talked about funk’s history, how Prince turned him onto music, and how hip hop impacted his understanding of funk. D’s knowledge of black music history is as vast as his skills on keyboards, guitars and vocals are deep.
Airborne Leaflet Campaign Media Roundup
- ABC7: The Airborne Leaflet Campaign at the Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Metromix: Exhibit Chukwuma Agubokwu And Wilmer Wilson Iv, The Airborne Leaflet Campaign
- Washington City Paper: Take It to the Bridge, Week 6: “COLON:Y”
- DCist: Arts Agenda
- The D.C. Docent: It Came From the Sky: Take It To The Bridge Does It Again
- Washington Project For the Arts: Take It To The Bridge
- Yahoo: UPCOMING & ONGOING: “Take it to the Bridge” special Performances and Events taking place at the Corcoran
- In The Distract: The Week of August 22, 2012
(Photo Credit: Joshua Yoyspyn/ABC7)
Wrenning Day & Past the Barbary by Ava Luna
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These folks will be up at DC9 (right off U St) tomorrow night for 10 bucks. Come thru, their live shows are not to be missed! #swimwear
next week it’s Me, Clear Soul Forces, Kooley High, Apollo Brown, Dunc and Toine and Halo. shit is crazy!
new york, new york! next week, was good???
click the pic to cop the tix!
If your NYC you should definitely check out my favorite hip hop group in DC DTMD.
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D.C. punk activist Mark Andersen enters the dark heart of Bad Brains in 2012 in this week’s cover story, “I Against I”:
A certain word kept popping up in conversations with other folks: schizophrenia. A former manager, Paul Cornwell, used it when I interviewed him for Dance of Days, as does Guy Oseary, from Maverick Records, in A Band in DC. A more professionally grounded diagnosis can’t be found, for everyone close to H.R. says the same thing: He won’t see a doctor. With that in mind, I wasn’t quite sure it was even right to go see Bad Brains perform.
Read the rest here.
Photograph by Darrow Montgomery
@WeAreACME at Sunday Funday @ The Loft
For anyone interested in one of the little known prime influences of Elvis, Chuck Berry and many early rock and roll pioneers who she preceded, check out Rosetta Tharpe.
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Submitted by Pablo Raw. Columbia Heights metro station.
And you thought people who stand on the left of the escalator were bad…
