Jun 3, 2020‘PIG FEET’ Is The Protest Anthem You’ve Been Clamoring ForThe daily torrent of news pouring out of America has grown beyond sickening. Terrace Martin, Kamasi Washington, Denzel Curry, Daylyt and G Perico can take no more, and express their frustration, anger and disgust through the medium they excel at: their music. The police is targeting protesters against excessive police…Jazz3 min readJazz3 min read
Published inRewriters010·May 28, 2020Murmure and the art of garbageCould it be a vision of the future? One with plastic in place of feathers and fur, tie-rips instead of talons? The imagery in Paul Ressencourt and Simon Roche’s year-long garbage-themed series is equal parts dystopian and dreamlike. That the street art duo known as Murmure is finishing it off…Street Art5 min readStreet Art5 min read
Published inRewriters010·May 1, 2020ICY and SOT: “We were good at lying to police”How did ICY and SOT, two Iranian brothers putting up stencil art and paste-ups in their native city of Tabriz, only to always have it cleaned off the very same day, manage to evade the regime of the Ayatollahs and become a global street art phenomenon? …Art7 min readArt7 min read
Feb 14, 2020Will Sessions and Amp Fiddler Bring the Funk to Jazz Fusion on ‘Kindred Live’There’s a lot that Will Sessions can do, but one thing that’s impossible for them, is getting boxed in. The Detroit outfit released a funk album called Deluxe earlier this year, knocked out the critically acclaimed live renditions of Nas’ classic Illmatic beats on Elmatic and have started their own…Music7 min readMusic7 min read
Feb 14, 2020Member-onlyFrom Kool Herc to Kendrick Lamar, Hip Hop History Unfolds Through the Lens of B+Though not everyone will be familiar with the name, there’s barely a soul left in hip hop who hasn’t encountered his work at some point. Photographer Brian Cross, better known as B+, has been a staple of L.A. hip hop for decades, as evidenced by his new book Ghostnotes. …Photography7 min readPhotography7 min read
Feb 14, 2020Chopping It Up With Dus T’, the Animator Behind MF Doom’s “Gas Drawls” VideoYou might not have heard of Dustin “Dus T’” Garcia yet, but the 26-year-old animator from Los Angeles certainly made a name for himself when he aligned it with metal-faced hip hop villain MF Doom. This week, the illustrator’s work was showcased via an awesome animated video for “Gas Drawls,”…Hip Hop4 min readHip Hop4 min read
Dec 15, 2017‘The Last Jedi’ Makes It Hard To Just Chill ’Til The Next EpisodeIt’s hard not to get swept up in the intricate marketing campaigns of a franchise blockbuster movie whenever you’re looking forward to one. Ever since the first trailer for ‘The Last Jedi’ dropped, many have been fully on board for this. With anticipation building towards a crescendo, expectations keep rising…Star Wars3 min readStar Wars3 min read
Apr 20, 2017How The Bang Still Reverberates 20 Years After LL Cool J’s ‘I Shot Ya’ RemixWhen Uncle L released his Mr. Smith album on November 20, 1995, it heralded a new era in his career, in which he shifted farther away from his hardcore rapper fanbase and eased into the loverman ballads to would sustain him for the next decade. That being said, Mr. Smith…Hip Hop5 min readHip Hop5 min read