This new tune from Snoop Dogg is rad. Mixing Sly and the Family Stone’s classic “Remember Who You Are” with snippets from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches and an intro filled with relaxed rhymes from Snoop, “King Remember” is a hip-hop-funk classic.
“We have overcome!”
Los Angeles was grooving to the beat of many different drummers Saturday. The Guitar Center Drum Off Championships brought out hundreds of young hopefuls, six finalists and a slew of celebrity judges.
The Henry Fonda was filled with all ages eager to hit the skins, including some barely old enough to read…
Luckily there were free drum kits set up all over the lobby for anyone wishing to take their metered aggression out in a musical manner.
I played drums briefly when I was twelve. Somehow, I was put behind the kit in music class and then graduated to stage band as a chick drummer. Of course, that lasted only a few weeks until my …
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Tracklist
1) Huey Lewis and The News- Power of Love
2) UGK- One Day
3) Sly and the Family Stone- If you want to Stay
4) Time- It Never Came (Naked Dinner exclusive snippit)
5) Mars Volta- Roulette Dares (The Haunt of)
6) Neil Young- Don’t Let it Bring You Down
7) Lil Wayne feat. Sizzla- 10 Years
8) Tullie the Rapper- Lincoln Continental
9) M.I.A. X Time- Paper Planes Freestyle
10) Radiohead- Everything in it’s Right Place
11) Sizzla- Mine and …
Hollywood Hosts Guitar Center’ s Drum-Off Grand Finals Competition This Saturday at 7pm.
I will be front and center to provide you lucky devils with the sights and sounds AND I have a fantastic prize to give away – a signed drum head, autographed by Mars Volta! Details below…
Among the panel of top judges …
After a quarter decade as a recluse, 60s icon, musical innovator and supremely funky individual Sly Stone finally seems ready to reemerge and reclaim his legacy. His music with Sly and the Family Stone was always a raw fusion of rock, soul and funk that seemed equally suited to explorations the uplifting themes of the 60s and the dark places to be found in the always outlandish and enigmatic Stone's mind.
His brief appearances on stage at the Grammys last year and in Vegas earlier this year helped feed rumors of his comeback attempt as well as further his reputation for the unexpected and the unexplained. Now after 25 years away, he's planning a European tour with a reformatted Family Stone and he recently gave his first interview in years to Vanity Fair's David Kamp.
Despite plenty of effort …
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