Month: June 2021

Culture’s biggest night  The BET Awards show 2021  “Year Of The Black Women” will broadcast live this Sunday June 27 at 8:00pm. ET/PT.  This year, Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winning actress, filmmaker and philanthropist Taraji P. Henson will host the star studded event. Critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning musician, Golden Globe winning and
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Michael B. Jordan is facing accusations of cultural appropriation over his new rum line, J’Ouvert. The Creole French word refers to the annual indigenous festivities held since the 1800s in Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada during Carnival. The packaging for J’Ouvert reads, “Derived from the Antellian Creole French term meaning ‘daybreak,’ J’OUVERT originated in the
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Let it burn. Dax is still jacking beats, and goes ham over Eminem’s classic “Forgot About Dre”. Taken from his ransacked living room, Dax bares his war paint and drops endless rhymes over the Dr. Dre production. The possessed rapper multiples in a series of clones, downs a bottle of liquor, and clutches his radio
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Earlier today, Metallica announced their plans for celebrating this year’s thirtieth anniversary of The Black Album, including a super-duper-extra-special deluxe edition as well as a project dubbed The Metallica Blacklist, which features “50+ artists spanning an unbelievably vast range of genres, generations, cultures, continents and more, each contributing a unique interpretation of their favorite Black Album cut.”  One of
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Electronica is at an apex that critics can’t seem to stop talking about this season, and if you’re curious what all of the fuss has been about, I’d recommend taking a peek at the genre’s esteemed underground and specifically contemporary acts like Elektragaaz. Unlike a lot of their predecessors, Elektragaaz isn’t creatively limited by the
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Equal parts indie rock, gypsy punk, dark folk and garage rock, there’s no describing the sound The Dirty Shirts are rocking in their new single “Gin & Tonic” without using words like hybrid and experimental, yet I’d hesitate in lumping their aesthetics in with the vast pool of left-field pop acts dominating the underground at
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NYC singer-songwriter Devon Gordon (The RoseCrumbs) brings psychedelic rock into a modern mix and creates a booming kaleidoscope of sound, energy and musical color. Her upcoming debut EP reveals her ardent vocals, grinding guitar and groovy bass work, over the signature drum vibe of renowned Jane’s Addiction drummer, Stephen Perkins. Drawing on the melodic influences
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Chicago native Michael Gross shot to stardom in the ’80s after he landed the life-changing role as the easygoing hippie father Steven Keaton — who looks after his four children and wife — on the classic NBC family sitcom “Family Ties.” Gross shared the small screen with some iconic child actors including Justine Bateman as
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