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This artwork hot or not? Reminds me of the art for Steve Lamacq’s Weekenders compilation.

Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert has been fined $75,000 by the NBA for using a gay slur during his postgame news conference Saturday night.

Related:

SPIN on Roy Hibbert, ‘No Homo,’ and How Hip-Hop Fits Into This

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Summerstage presents

RAKIM Performing Live!

Hosted by LYRICIST LOUNGE

Also performance by Ph Pumpkinhead

45” Vinyl Set by Natasha Diggs & Operator Emz (Mobile Mondays)

@ Red Hook Park

Starts @ 6:30 pm / Show @ 7 pm Sharp!

Free / All Ages

For more info & directions, CLICK HERE or post title

[via Castro Co.]

Just saw a flyer for this by accident when I happened to drop in at the local Jamaican food spot down the block from me yesterday. How did I not know about this before then?? I’ve said it before, will say it again: the marketing of urban music shows and events in Toronto is f-cking lousy!

Zaki Ibrahim, Tanika Charles, Saidah Baba Talibah, Lal, Motion, and DJ’s Mel Boogie and L’Oqenz will be performing at Toronto’s Mod Club on June 3rd to raise funds for the 1st Time Project! The show will be hosted by Garvia Bailey of CBC radio’s Big City, Small World.

The 1st Time Project is a trans-media initiative about women’s sexuality. Drawing on real women’s 1st sexual experiences, the 1st Time Project ignites a conversation about what is really going on in women’s sex lives, reaching beyond generational and cultural divides.

Come and join us for this amazing concert event!

Monday June 3rd, 2013
@ The Virgin Mobile Mod Club - 722 College Street
Doors: 7:45pm 19+ ID A MUST

Get your tickets and EXCLUSIVE DEALS!
www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-1st-time-project

As part of Chapter 51: Leaders, Wax Poetics Editor-In-Chief Andre Torres spoke to John King about shaping the big sound of hip-hop with acts like Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, and LL Cool J that paved the way for its early commercial success.

Not sure I agree with his definition of rap vs. hip-hop but this is still interesting viewing nonetheless…

This should be a good one. On the local tip, Shi Wisdom has had ‘next’ here in the T.dot for a minute and KJ is an artist who I’m hoping is gonna get some love from the Polaris Prize this year for his amazing Water album.

Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular music become an art form - from the glorious artwork adorning gatefold sleeves, to the ideas and concepts that bound the songs together, to the unforgettable music itself.

Built on stratospheric sales of albums, these were the years when the music industry exploded to become bigger than Hollywood. From pop to rock, from country to soul, from jazz to punk, all of music embraced what ‘the album’ could offer. But with the collapse of vinyl sales at the end of the 70s and the arrival of new technologies and formats, the golden era of the album couldn’t last forever.

With contributions from Roger Taylor, Ray Manzarek, Noel Gallagher, Guy Garvey, Nile Rodgers, Grace Slick, Mike Oldfield, Slash and a host of others, this is the story of When Albums Ruled the World.

One of 66 locations he premiered this new song at by projecting the video onto buildings like the ROM and Wrigley Field in Chicago. Who says Yeezy lost his touch?! Still two steps ahead of the competition….