Another Phenomenal Night of Latin American Psych & Freakbeats!
Verdugo Bar – Glassell Park, CA
5/26/09
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Come check out Mas Exitos tonight at the Verdugo Bar featuring the usual suspects, GANAS, LENGUA, ENORBITO, HOSEH and of course CHICO SONIDO.  Take a safari trip south of the border and experience the sweat and pulse of the subtropic psychedelia and otherworldly beats. →

Sunday Best with Mr. Scruff
Brooklyn Yard – New York
5/31/09
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The opening day of Sunday Best was amazing. We had tacos, sangria, little kids, amazing weather and great, great music courtesy of the Sunday Best residents and special guest Quentin Harris. It really is good to be back. →

The Twilite Tone

I LOVE viNYl (the Party)
Le Poisson Rouge – NYC
6/26/09
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Wax Poetics, Raw Fusion, Great Weekend, Fusicology, and Halcyon present “I Love Vinyl.” And the dream line-up for this party to top all parties: →

The Fifth Annual Housing Works Open Air Street Fair
Crosby Street – Soho, NY
6/6/09
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The Fifth Annual Housing Works Open Air Street Fair! The lovely cobblestone block of Crosby Street between Prince and Houston in Soho will be closed to cars as we sell thousands of donated books, records and CDs for $1 a piece, plus clothing, shoes, accessories and housewares from Housing Works Thrift Shops. Also, enjoy music, food and beer. One block can make a big difference: All profits go to Housing Works, which provides lifesaving services for homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. →

In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop culture has returned to the country—and since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV’s wildly popular American Idol-style series Afghan Star. Two thousand people audition, including three extremely brave women. And when viewers vote for their favorites via cell phone, it is, for many, their first encounter with the democratic process. Winner of the →

An artshow by Jim Mahfood aka Food one and Scott Campbell
London Miles Gallery – Notting Hill, LONDON
6/11/09
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London Miles Gallery and Nerd Core present a two man show with Comic book artists Jim Mahfood and Scott Campbell (aka Scott C.)  SUPREME BROSHIP is the first collaborative showcase of original artworks, paintings, drawings and new collaborative artworks by the two artists.  →

I’d been eyeing the cover of Dog Bite Dog for awhile now but never got around actually giving the movie a go around.  Most asian cinema I’ve sampled lately has been either completely terrible or totally beyond me.  Edison Chen’s Dog Bite Dog, to my delighted surprise, finally broke the trend. →

INT.  A large rehearsal stage. A perky choreographer with an uncanny resemblance to Fred Astaire slides onstage, and plays to the to audience, even though the red velvet seats are currently unoccupied.

Ava, Btte, Lana, Sophia, Daryl….Rita! Are you ready girls?

The girls flap on from stage left and take their places, in the chorus line.

Alright then! Let’s take it from the top!

All the girls look at each other perplexed.

Which one?

Whaddya mean, which one?

Well, Ava’s is lime green, Rita likes the snakesin and Lana ties everything up with a bow! →

EM: Occupation and Position
Artist/Designer

EM: What neighborhood do you closely identify with? What makes your community so unique?
I was born and raised in Baltimore in a neighborhood called Reservoir Hill. ‘B-more’ as a whole is a really funny town that has some of the most egregious social circumstances and cultures all jumbled next to each other. In other cities in the USA you have good and bad areas separated by significant geographic features such as a freeway, a river, a hill, park, building, etc. In Baltimore  →

Moderat
BPitch Control
(2009)

Moderat was once the uneasy collaboration between BPitch Control labelmates Modeselektor (Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary) and Apparat (Sascha Ring), but this self-titled release has the three musicians revisiting past attempts and cutting a record that shows off their respective strengths. →