TAG: Spike Lee

Jul30

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson : “Celebrate Tradition” Interview (Video)

Here are some of my shorthand notes based around a conversation I had with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson at his apartment in July 2010.  all of the quotes are not verbatim and are simply some of his thoughts jotted down by me. When I arrived at his home for our interview, the front door was ajar, “It’s actually perfect timing. I’ve been on the phone all day, booking rehearsals.” He admits once I walk inside, “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran grabs my eye on top of a stack of books, across from hundreds of CDs neatly lined against the wall. Framed posters of past masters frame the musical instruments in the living room, which has a shrine in the center.

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Jan12

Lasonic Ghetto Blaster Finally Makes A Return!

How many times in the last decade have you been sitting around with friends talking about that ghetto blaster you had as a kid and how much you missed it.  Unless you grew up in NYC or LA you probably didn’t have one quite this large. Regardless, you loved that little bad boy because it is what let you play those dirty mixtapes your moms didn’t want to hear.  You probably were clowing round the house with those little iPod speakers your girl got for xmas, holding them on your shoulders like miniature giants, prancing around the house like you were Radio Raheem with your 50cent playlist…

Clownin’ Times Over Fool, Lasonic Is Back.

For 170 bones you can go all the way back to the roots you wished you had Raheem.  What does it get you?…

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Dec31

Spike Lee’s Posthumous Video for Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” (Video)

One of the downsides to 2009 was the amount of amazing musicians we lost.  Even if you only counted the last 6 months we have lost too many good people from our hearts and stereos, the most high profile of these being The King of Pop – Michael Jackson.  The event will most likely go down in our minds ranked up there with the falling of the Berlin Wall or the Twin Towers, the day the King of Pop fell.  Despite any feelings you had for the man, good or bad, you will have to answer questions about it in the future.  Five years from now you could be around a dinner table discussing what you where doing when these events happened.  15 years from now your children or grand children will ask you who he was or what it …

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