Category Archives: Artist Highlight

Friday Night Cartoons 7/22

Friday Night Cartoons! I’ve been down to their show before but this is the first time I got to film. These cats are crazy! Shoutout to @kidpotential, @goodreverenddr, @6thsense & @Jeanise. UPDATE: Check out interviews with A-Mafia and Hood Hefna, … Continue reading

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Eye of the Creator…Ben Passmore

Ben Passmore: The honest answer is I don’t know anymore. I’ve been on a political roller coaster for a while. I started out as a Garveyist, then a Social-Democrat, then a Marxist, then a Proletarian-Authoritarian, then a Anarcho-Communist. A couple … Continue reading

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Artist Highlight: Zaki Ibrahim

Zaki Ibrahim’s music is captivating and vibrant.  It’s thick with poetics and steeped in a delicious mixture of earnest emotion and social commentary.  Zaki’s path continues to progress, layering new experiences on top of each other that uniquely influence her … Continue reading

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Artist Highlight: P.SO (formally known as P.CASSO)

P.SO, “The Earth Tone King” (formally known as “P.CASSO”) is an artist not unlike his namesake.  Incorporating mixed media as a solid emcee, a breakout producer and a burgeoning videographer, P.SO is using unorthodox methods to create a single vision … Continue reading

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Artist Highlight: The Debutante Hour

The Debutante Hour keeps its musical roots in American country, blues and vaudeville while letting their lyrics run the gamut from absurd to sublime.  Susan Hwang and Maria Sonevytsky switch fluidly between accordion/keys and hobo drum kit while Mia Pixley … Continue reading

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Artist Highlight: The Bayonics

New original music that bubbled up from deep within the melting pot that is the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2001, Bayonics have been writing original songs that incorporate elements of funk, timba, hip hop, jazz, reggae and rock.  With … Continue reading

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Artist Highlight: Raye 6 (Video)

Many have wondered and some have fantasized what a female version of Prince would be like.  Even Prince tried to create his female prototype but as dope as Sheena Easton was and as sexy as Vanity 6 may have been, … Continue reading

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Artist Highlight: Ida Divine

Ida Divine is an eclectic, talented writer, singer and rapper; the type of female lyricist this industry lacks.  She hails from the Park Hill projects of Staten Island, New York– also home of the world renowned Wu-Tang Clan.

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