Fusicology News
Last week of Black Music Month
This week we are all about podcasts and downloads, bringing in the last week of Black Music Month. Fusicology's I Got Soul / June Photo Playlist is a main feature on Imeem.com | Official Page The Music Business TeleWebinar - What You Must Know To Succeed in The Music Business. Expert Panels, Trends, Tips Tools & Techniques - July 7th & 14th Learn More KPFK 90.7 FM and Truth Seekers Radi (Continue)
Remix Hotel NY, I Got Soul Dallas & Garth Trinidad
Remix Hotel New York heads back to SAE’s NY campus for another all-inclusive weekend of music-production technology, master classes, artist performances and more. With Guitar Center Sessions @ Remix Hotel panel programming—with panelists Pete Rock, Just Blaze, Junior Sanchez, Rob Swift, DJ Logic, Frequency and many others—RHNYC ensures that everyone from budding producers to full-on studio (Continue)
RIP Bo Diddley, Jimmy Abney, Lalah Hathaway, Jackson Conti & more
RIP Bo Diddley. Often cited as a key figure in the transition from blues to rock and roll, he introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound. Watch Video Yoruba Records presents their new artist album - JIMMY ABNEY'S 'Return To Forever'. This multi-instrumentalist brings us a complete expression of the word, soul, combining elements of classic soul and rhythm and blues (Continue)
June's Tunes + Detroit's Movement Festival Weekend
SELF PORTRAIT is the critically acclaimed vocalist and song stylist LALAH HATHAWAY newest musical offering. This release, out this Tuesday June 3rd, is Lalah's fourth solo project, and marks the beginning of her new affiliation with the recently revived Stax Records label which is distributed via Concord Music Group. Listen & Learn MOCHILLA is releasing JACKSON CONTI’S SUJINHO also this Tuesday (Continue)
Myanmar Relief, Bids 4 Beats, Om Hip Hop + Invincible
BIDS 4 BEATS until June 1st where you're sure to find something to bid on when you browse through the items. Proceeds go directly towards building the NextAid Youth with a Village Community Center and Children's Residential Village. NextAid is also donating 10% of the proceeds for Burma (Myanmar) relief, via our partner, Architecture for Humanity. View All Auction Items! Von Dutch Originals and (Continue)
2nd Annual Fringe Festival brings out the Freak in All of Us…
04.09.08 fringe: noun [ frinj ] members of a group or organization who hold views not representative of the group and usually more extreme. - - Based on this definition, this writer and other fringeful souls were treated to a night of pure fringed-out debauchery. Though I missed some of the earlier performances of the evening, my compatriot and I did arrive in time enough to catch Los Mins (Continue)
History of the Word: The Power of Spoken Word + Saul Williams
[For this blog, we asked some of the young poets and writers of Detroit Summer to express their thoughts on their experience attending the play "History of the Word" wsg Saul Williams on 02.16.08] History of the Word: featuring Saul Williams Last Saturday's “History of the Word” at the Music Hall [downtown Detroit] featured talent old and new, New York and good old Detroit style poetry. The (Continue)
2008 NOLA JAZZ FEST: Wonder, Warehouse Parties, Wow!
April 25 - May 4 this year saw the 38th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and Fusicology was pleased to run amok in the madness... because there's just nothing like it. For those that couldn't make it this year, better luck next year. And for those that weren't hip to this scene, consider yourself in the know ;) Excerpts from our daily blog here.... Enjoy! <<< >> (Continue)
MC Truth Universal drops his 1st full-length project!
New Orleans kicks out the latest in its Hip Hop genius with the release of NOLA-native MC, Truth Universal's "Self Determination" debut full-length effort this week. This album, featuring guest spots from Doodlebug of Digable Planets, Stic Man of Dead Prez, Symbolyc One of Strange Fruit Project, NOLA's rising soul singer, Tondrae Kemp, among others, is available right now exclusively @ <stron (Continue)
2008 NBA ALL-STARS hit the BIG EASY 02.15 – 02.17
This past weekend in Nawlins was a trip. Mainly because we don’t usually roll baller-style, but it was actually kinda fun. Somewhat justified with Common and Swin Cash from the WNBA’s Detroit Shock, along with “Everybody Hates Chris” star, Terry Crews, representing for the “Hornets” team on Friday evening @ the 2008 All-Stars Celebrity Game. Not to mention appearances from Maze &a (Continue)
