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Feb20

Salvador Santana – Keyboard City (Review)

Salvador Santana

Keyboard City

Released by Various Music/Quannum


It goes without saying that a musical lineage like Salvador Santana’s doesn’t hurt in jumpstarting a career. The son of Grammy-winning (ten to be exact) Carlos Santana, the young musician also has a poet for a mother and a blues icon for a grandfather. Add his paternal grandfather (a legendary violinist and, apparently, a mariachi bandleader) to the mix, and it’s no surprise that Santana took to the family business. Staying true to the varied and diverse musical disciplines within his family, Santana opted to dedicate his talents to the keyboard, having studied piano from the age of five and attending music schools along the California coast. His San Francisco-based youth and college years spent in Valenica informs much of Keyboard City, which has a laid-back, beachy, hippie vibe that Santana himself best describes as the “Frisco mindset” in “Under the Sun.”

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Feb13

Buraka Som Sistema – Fabriclive 49 (Review)

Buraka Som Sistema

Fabriclive 49

Released by Fabric


2009 was a good year for Buraka Som Sistema. The Lisbon, Portugal-based crew put progressive kuduro on the map in 2007 with their M.I.A.-assisted track “Sound of Kuduro” and spent the past year promoting their acclaimed 2008 studio debut, Black Diamond, with electric live shows that can only be described as epic.  Their electro Afro-funk sound, soca rhythms, and—of course—kuduro-rave energy has swept the club scene around the world, so it’s no surprise that London’s legendary Fabric nightclub would call on BSS to head up FabricLive 49. “The bass keeps coming, and coming, and coming and coming... and going and going and going and drops,” we’re informed on “Hey.” And drop it, they do; BSS assembles a mix that wades through grimy dubstep, electro, dancehall, Peruvian funk and features artists from across the globe—Angola, Portugal, France, Jamaica, Peru and the UK, among others.

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Dec07

Comme Des Garçons x Barbie (?!)

Rei Kawakubo lends her fashion genius (and trademark fringe bangs) to the world’s most recognizable little lady with the Comme Des Garçons Barbie. The classic doll dons an asymmetrical, silk-lined dress featuring the CDG Christmas “Jingle Flowers” print. Part of the Barbie Collector Platinum Label collection, the limited edition doll debuted in Japan last week and is already sold out in Tokyo.

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Dec07

Belly and Drake Hit the Studio, “Make It Go” (Video)

Behind the scenes footage of Drake and Belly working in the studio last year, resulting in “Make It Go.” Clap for ‘em?

Download: Belly ft. Drake, “Make It Go”

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Dec01

Kid Cudi on “Pursuit of Happiness” video w/ Drake and Josh Hartnett (Video)

Kid Cudi sat down with MTV to talk about his upcoming video for “Pursuit of Happiness,” which is produced by his HBO co-start Josh Hartnett and Brody Baker, who directed Animal Collective’s “My Girls” video.

Kid reveals that Drake has a cameo in his party-vibe video: “When you see the video, it just makes me feel good, because I’m seeing all my friends and people that matter in my life. We were all celebrating. It’s like a New Year’s Eve-type thing. Everybody’s just getting wasted.”

For those of us who were looking forward to seeing Kid, MGMT, and Ratatat together in one place, hope may be in sight. The rapper reveals that he …

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Dec01

Marc Ecko, Live 1-2-1 with jeffstaple (Video)

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STPL founder and URB contributor jeffstaple hosted a live 1-2-1 with Marc Ecko during the Imprint Culture Lab back in September, picking the brain of the talented entrepreneur. There’s good stuff here, be sure to check it out to hear Marc talk about his journey in creating a global brand and his advice for young upstarts.

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