Big up our friend Bigz anytime! Find the still photographs he is talking about in the video on the website of FIRST Magazine and find more of his work on Facebook.
Just letting you know that the Crookers album “Tons of Friends” is finally out as I’m kinda busy getting the new seen. page/shop in the course of the week. Stay tuned!
This is the lead off single from Aloe Blacc’s forth coming album Good Things, produced by Truth & Soul, and featuring the backing band known as Expressions and El Michels Affair. The A-Side “I Need A Dollar” has just debuted as the theme song to the HBO series How To Make It In America.
The 12-inch vinyl for “Dollar” will be in stores April 2010. An advance digital release is available on iTunes. Instrumentals for both tracks are included.
The album Good Things will be released in 2010 – track list & street date TBA.
As the weekend comes, I’d like to share three reggae-/Jamaica-related articles/blog posts which I enjoyed reading in the last couple of days:
Chow
Diplo writes about his latest visit to Kingston to play a show at Fiction, a visit during which he met Chow amongst others. Chow was the main engineer at legendary Tuff Gong studios back in the days of Bob Marley and now lives in the back of the studio. Read the whole article over at the Mad Decent blog.
Sci-Fi and Reggae
“A thinky-piece in it exploring the fraught relationship between Afrofuturist reggae musicians and the Rastas-in-Space projected by Hollywood films and sci-fi authors” taken from the latest issue of Woofah magazine. Read an appetizer over at Wayne&Wax.