French filmmaker Jacqueline Caux‘ “Cycles of the Mental Machine” is a piece of visual art inspired by the legendary Detroit DJ, The Electrifying Mojo and his book, “The Mental Machine”. Cycles recently received an “Award of Merit” from the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. “And what,” you may ask, “does this have to do [...]
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So Nick Speed has been producing tracks for everyone and their momma for the longest. From 50 Cent to Talib Kweli, Lloyd Banks, Elzhi and others, the man has been busy. But as he prepares to move to the next level, folks are taking note, folks like 2dopeboyz, the bloggers you need to be following [...]
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28 Apr, 2010
Posted by: cornelius In: Music| News
…and so should you! The blog/podcast site, Little White Earbuds (also known affectionately as “LWE”), interviewed the dance music dynamo. If you take a listen, you’ll hear an incredible mix as well as an enlightening interview where he explains just what W.A.R.M.T.H. is and how influential Mad Mike Banks was in his start and beyond [...]
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26 Apr, 2010
Posted by: cornelius In: Events| News
What? You never knew there *was* such a day? Well now you do! That’s right, on Saturday, May 1, all over North America and beyond, comic shops will be providing folks with FREE COMICS, that’s right, FREE! But some cooler than cool shops, like Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan, want you to get more [...]
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22 Apr, 2010
Posted by: cornelius In: News
Yes folks, Nadir, musician about town, the revolutionary rocker, the outspoken, nontoken, guitar slinging, soul singing phenomena walked away from the 2010 Detroit Music Awards with an award for Outstanding Urban/Funk Vocalist. No idea who won for Outstanding Suburban/Funk Vocalist, but Nadir is still better!!
And a special shout out to the good folks of the [...]
16 Feb, 2010
Posted by: cornelius In: News| Videos
As a spoken word artist, Cherrie Amour has taken her name to heart, speaking on matters of love in all of its facets, so it’s no surprise that her followup to her debut, Love’s Journey would be called ilovemesomewords. A celebration of her inspiration, the 4 track ep is available on RPD [...]
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05 Feb, 2010
Posted by: cornelius In: News
Yes, the good folks at FOKUS Radio kept the good stuff coming with an appearance by the always energetic Nick Speed! He was joined by none other than Vaughan T from Athletic Mic League. Nick talks about…
…being a child radio star, linking with Sha Money XL & working with G-Unit
…working with Talib Kweli, [...]
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03 Jan, 2010
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The International DJ Extraordinaire, Mr. Terrence Parker is unleashing an arsenal of high powered House / Soul mix shows and a collection of radio appearances you may have missed via Podcast. Now you can download your favorite Terrence Parker mix shows and take them where ever you go, GIVE IT A LISTEN! And Click [...]
08 Dec, 2009
Posted by: babu In: News
Yes folks, there’s no more famous quote concerning techno music than Derrick May’s “techno is like Kraftwerk and George Clinton stuck together in an elevator.” And Kraftwerk has had a longstanding relationship with the Motor City, so when the New York Times thought to do a piece on the iconic electronic band, it only made [...]
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24 Oct, 2009
Posted by: cornelius In: News
Yes, the cosmopolitan DJ, (posing here with Taiwan’s DJ Chicano) one of the more under exposed members of the UR crew, recently did an interview with Waakao, a blog dedicated to all things Taiwanese. In his interview, each answer is punctuated with a video and while you won’t learn how to break the DaVinci Code, [...]